My name is Amit Turgeman, I am 25 years old and am originally from the Aminadav village near Jerusalem. My undergraduate studies were in both International Relations and Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University. In addition, I worked at the Health Ministry of Israel as a lecturer and at the Hebrew University as a teaching and research assistant in both the international relations and communication departments.

I live in Shoham and am in my first year of my Master’s degree in the Political Communication track. I am a teaching assistant in various courses and a research assistant in a research project on the subject of “TikTok memes of war” led by Dr. Lilly Boxman-Shabtai and take part in the "Friends and Foes" research group led by Prof. Zohar Kampf and Prof. Gadi Heimman, examining the translation of interpersonal connections into international relations.

My subjects of interest are diplomacy and diplomats' behaviors, norms and codes of behavior in the world system, and behaviors' effects and relations to world public opinion. I am currently focusing on extending my seminar paper into a thesis project. In this work in progress, I examine expressions of gratitude in diplomacy through cases of success and failure and mixed analysis methods. I presented this research last July at the Cadaad conference in Bergamo. I am also working on another paper in parallel. My academic mentor in the program is Prof. Zohar Kampf.