Professor Mohammed Wattad (LL.B., LL.M., JSD) is a distinguished professor, the Dean of the Law School, and in the academic year 2023, he served as the Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Academic College of Safed. Additionally, he is a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University; a research fellow at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy at Reichman University; and a research fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law in Extreme Situations at the University of Haifa. He serves as a visiting lecturer at faculties and law schools in Israel and abroad, and from 2014 to 2016, Professor Wattad served as a visiting professor at the Law School and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine campus, in the United States.