RAPHAEL COHEN‎-ALMAGOR Raphael Cohen‎-Almagor received his doctorate in political theory from Oxford University ‎(‎1991‎)‎‎.‎ Former member of the Israel Press Council ‎(‎1997‎-2000‎)‎‎.‎ In 1999‎-2000 he was awarded the Fulbright‎-Yitzhak Rabin Award and was a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law and Department of Communication‎.‎ He was Chairperson of Library and Information Studies ‎(‎200‎-2003‎)‎ and is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication‎,‎ University of Haifa‎,‎ where he heads the Center for Democratic Studies‎.‎ In 2003‎-2004 he was a Senior Fellow and visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University‎.‎ Raphael is the author of Middle Eastern Shores ‎(‎poetry‎,‎ Hebrew‎,‎ 1993‎)‎‎,‎ The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance ‎(‎1994‎)‎‎,‎ The Right to Die with Dignity ‎(‎2001‎)‎ and Euthanasia in the Netherlands ‎(‎2004‎)‎‎,‎ and editor of several books‎,‎ among them Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance‎:‎ Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin ‎(‎2000‎)‎‎,‎ Challenges to Democracy‎:‎ Essays in Honour and Memory of Isaiah Berlin ‎(‎2000‎)‎‎,‎ Medical Ethics at the Dawn of the 21st Century ‎(‎2000‎)‎‎,‎ and Moral Dilemmas in Medicine ‎(‎Hebrew‎,‎ 2002‎)‎‎.‎ He is currently completing a book titled The Scope of Tolerance as well as his second poetry book‎,‎ Travels‎.‎