Professor Noah Efron founded and teaches at Bar Ilan University's Graduate Program in Science, Technology & Society.

He serves on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council and was a founder of the “Green Movement” political party. He has served on the Board of Directors and Scientific Committee of the Eretz Yisrael Museum, as the President of the Israeli Society for History & Philosophy of Science, and on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Science and Religion.

 Prof. Efron is a standing member of the Committee on Genetically Modified Organisms of Israel's Ministry of Agriculture. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology at MIT, and a Fellow at Harvard, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and many essays and articles on the complicated intertwine of knowledge, religion and politics: 

Real Jews: Secular, Ultra-Orthodox and the Struggle for Jewish Identity in Israel – published by Basic Books in 2003, the book discusses and provides a detailed historical analysis of the divide and the hostilities between secular Jews and the ultra-orthodox in the Jewish state.

Judaism and Science: A Historical Introduction – published by the Greenwood Publishing Group in 2007, the book is an historical analysis and explanation of the relationship between the Jewish people and science.

A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century – published by JHU Press in 2014, the book theorizes about the reason for Jews’ allegedly inherent affinity and aptitude for the sciences in the 20th century.

Efron is the host of The Promised Podcast, the world's leading podcast on Israeli politics. He also played bass for an ill-fated band named Liquid Plumr, and has run marathons, slowly, on three continents. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, daughter, son, dog and cat. His greatest regret is that he is not Nora Ephron.