Rabbi Gilad Kariv is the Executive Director of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism (IMPJ). He founded the Young Adult Leadership Forum which he headed for three years. Rabbi Kariv previously served as the Associate Director of the Israel Religious Action Center. Gilad served in the IDF’s Talpiot project of the Intelligence Corps. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University, earning a combined degree with a B.A. in Law and Jewish Philosophy. Gilad then spent a year clerking in the State Attorney's office. He obtained his LLM in Public and International Law from the Northwestern University School of Law. He studied in the Israel Rabbinical Program of the Hebrew Union College and was ordained as a Reform Rabbi in 2003.