Yanai Weiss holds a B.A degree in honors in the Interdisciplinary Excellency PPE program (Philosophy, Political Science, Economics and Law) from Tel-Aviv University. He is currently a graduate student in economics under the joint research program of Tel-Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to his current position as Research Director at the Macro Center for Political Economics Yanai served as a teacher assistant at the PPE program and worked for two years at the Israeli embassy in Germany as the Assistant to the Defense Attaché to Germany and Austria.