David Motzafi-Haller is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. His current project follows Zionist involvement in regional and international circuits of infrastructure construction and economic development through a global micro-history of the families of mid-range employees at Solel Boneh. He hold a B.A. and an M.A. (summa cum laude) in History from Tel-Aviv University.

Situated in the intersection between transnational social history and historical ethnography, his academic interests lie in the making of ethno-classes in Israeli Jewish settler society, the sociology of experts, and the cumulative effects of the transnational development encounter in the mid 20^th century.

His academic work thus far has been published in Katedra, Journal of Israeli History, Mashriq & Mahjar, and Middle Eastern Studies. A language aficionado and part time translator of prose, scholarship and poetry, his work as a translator and editor has appeared in numerous peer reviewed journals, collected volumes and popular outlets.