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Asa Kasher, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice, Tel Aviv University. Senior Research Guest, INSS, participating in the Military-Society Research Program activities.
Prof. Kasher has done research in the areas of Professional Ethics, Organizational Ethics and the Moral Foundations of Democracy. Within the framework of these areas he wrote the books "Israeli Ethics" and "More on Israeli Ethics" (Keter) as well as "Military Ethics" (Modan and Ministry of Defense) which won the Izhak Sade Prize of Military Literature, and "Spirit of a Man" (Am Oved). Published 450 papers and ethical documents in these and other areas, for all of which he won the Israel Prize for Philosophy (2000).
Prof. Kasher wrote or participated in writing numerous codes of ethics of State, Public, Professional and Business organizations, including the IDF Code of Ethics (1994) and the codes of ethics of the Ministry of Defense and Israel Police.
He was a member of many Governmental Public committees, chaired by justices Shamgar (2), Zamir, Procacia, Matsa, Arbel and Winograd, and Generals Hoffi, Dagan, Shavit, Shani and Yaron.
