Public policy and local government researcher. His doctoral dissertation, academic articles, and published columns deal with structural reforms in local and central government, democracy, privatization, the Arab minority in Israel, and good governance. A major in the reserves, he is active in the Home Front Command and the Recruitment Bureau in Haifa. He worked at the Ministry of Finance in the Customs and VAT Department for about a decade. He has been the director of the Human Capital Management Department in the Dalit El Carmel Local Council for five years.