Dr. Ofer Cassif is now substituted for Aida Touma-Sliman as the Head of the International Relations Committee of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI). Comrade Cassif is a member of the Political Bureau of CPI. He previously served as parliamentary assistant to the late comrade Meir Vilner, and was the first to be jailed for refusing to serve in the Occupied Palestinian Territories during the first Intifada. On the whole, he was jailed four times in Israeli military prisons.

Dr. Cassif works as a lecturer in philosophy and political-science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at Sapir Academic College in Sderot, a town in the southern part of Israel – just by the border with Gaza Strip. Cassif completed his PhD at the London School of Economics, where he was also teaching for a while, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, New- York.