Rabbi Mishael Zion is founder of Kehillat Klausner in Jerusalem and founding director of the Mandel Leadership Institute’s Program for Leadership in Jewish Culture. He is formerly a fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
Together with his father, Noam Zion, he is the author of A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices (2007) and of The Israeli Haggadah (2004 and 2024).
Mishael holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and Jewish thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in New York.
He and his wife, Elana, a neuroscientist, have four daughters.