Moshe halbertal bio

Moshe Halbertal (Hebrew: משה הלברטל; born Montevideo, Uruguay, 1958) is an Israeliphilosopher, professor, and writer, a noted expert on Maimonides, and co-author of the Israeli Army Code of Ethics.^[1] He currently holds positions as the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem^[2] and Gruss Professor of Law at NYU School of Law.^[3] In 2021 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.^[4]

Biography

Born in Uruguay, he made aliyah to Israel.

Halbertal was reared in Israel in a modern Orthodox family. His father was a Holocaust survivor from Łańcut, Galicia (Central-Eastern Europe), his mother an Israeli who had come to Uruguay to teach Hebrew.^[5]

He received his B.A.

in Jewish Thought and Philosophy from Hebrew University, cum laude, in 1984, and his PhD from Hebrew University in 1989. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the topic '"Values a