Benji Davis, the founder and director of IMPACT Israel Education, is an American-born Israeli educator, scholar, and speaker specializing in Israel education. He and his team are experts in providing Israel education experiences to Jewish teens and young adults on short- and long-term Israel programs as well as developing asynchronous and hybrid online Israel education content. The recipient of the Network for Research in Jewish Education’s (NRJE) 2024 Harold Wechsler Award for Emerging Scholars, Benji’s scholarly work has been published in the Journal of Jewish Education and Contemporary Jewry. Benji holds a BA in Middle East Studies & History (Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kapp) from the George Washington University, an MA in Jewish Education from the Hebrew University, and recently submitted his PhD dissertation (University of Haifa), which developed a theory of pedagogical content knowledge for the field of Israel education. In August 2024, he will begin a post-doctoral fellowship in Israel Studies at George Mason University, where he will live in Potomac, MD with his wife Rachel and daughters Maia, Ella and Lia.