Dr. Avi Bareli of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism has been awarded the Itzhak Ben-Zvi prize for the history of the Land of Israel for his book "The Struggle over Political Institutionalization in Mapai, 1948-1953"

Bareli has been a lecturer at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute in Sede Boker since 2003. Prior to this, he was a lecturer in the Jewish history department at Tel-Aviv University (1996-2003), where he received his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in 2001.

Dr. Bareli was co-editor of David Ben-Gurion's Memoirs (1990-1994) and is currently co-editor of Iyunim Bitkumat Israel. He has taught numerous courses on modern Jewish, Zionism, and Israeli history, including: The Jewish world in the Modern Period, 1881-1948; The origins of Israeli democracy; crossroads in Zionist and Israeli diplomacy, 1942-1956; and Struggles in Israel’s politics in the 1950s.