Matthew Lipman has been working in Israel education for 20 years. In addition to his teaching work at several gap year programs in Israel he designs Israel and Judaic programming for summer camps. Matthew created and manages Masa's popular Israel news update group. Matthew has a B.A. in Politics and History from the University of Liverpool and holds a master’s degree in Jewish Education from the Hebrew University. He takes great pride in having worked with hundreds of students to develop their own ideas on Israel, Zionism and life. He lives with his family and Shih Tzu, Shaki in Modi’in.