Rabbi Aviad Tabory studied at the hesder yeshivot of Ohr Etzion and Har Etzion and received semichah from Israel's Chief Rabbinate. He served as the Jewish Agency's rabbinic emissary to Bnei Akiva in the UK and as founding rabbi of the Alei Tzion community in London. He now teaches at Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi in Jerusalem, wrote State of Halakha: Israel's History in Jewish Law, and edited To Stand and Serve. He lives in Alon Shvut.