Benjamin Amram

Benjamin Amram is a second year psychology student at the Raphael Recanati International School at Reichman University. Born in Chicago, he made Aliyah in 2017 at the age of 18. In the IDF, Benjamin served in the Golani Brigade and received the Northern Command Award of Excellence for his “exemplary performance and personal example to peers”. Afterwards, he worked for the US Embassy in Jerusalem as an armed guard and completed the 6-month Google Data Analytics Course focusing on data analysis, cleaning, and visualization. His areas of focus are the interplay between psychology, government, and emerging technology. He was accepted and will participate in the 2022-2023 academic year cohort of the Zvi Meitar Emerging Technology Program. It focuses on the legal, ethical, and moral applications of emerging technologies, and consists of a yearlong research thesis.