Dan Rothem is a senior researcher at Tachlith – The Institute for Israeli Policy. He also serves as a senior policy adviser at the Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation, where he focuses on bridging diverse worldviews in conflict resolution. In addition, he is a nonresident senior fellow with the N7 Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs.
Previously, Rothem served as CEO of Commanders for Israel’s Security, a nonpartisan movement comprising over three hundred retired Israel Defense Force (IDF) generals and their Mossad, Shin Bet, police, and National Security Council equivalents. For nearly two decades, Rothem was a senior research advisor at the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace. In this role, he pioneered the development of sophisticated geographic information system mapping technologies for analyzing territorial aspects of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Rothem’s work on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict encompasses its evolving place within the broader Middle East geopolitical landscape, including regional normalization processes and strategic alignments. His analytical work focuses on US mediation efforts and how they interact with both bilateral negotiations and regional dynamics. He has directly briefed Israeli prime ministers, US administration officials, and international diplomats on conflict resolution approaches that account for changing regional realities, while also participating in high-level Track II diplomatic initiatives.
Based in Israel, Rothem completed his military service with the IDF Artillery Corps in 1997. He holds a master of arts in government with a specialization in diplomacy, conflict studies and negotiation from the International Disciplinary Center Herzliya (now Reichman University) and a bachelor of arts in journalism from Gardner-Webb University.
