Tavorr Vaxman-Magid

Tavorr Vaxman-Magid grew up in New Jersey (with a brief stint in Israel) to two Israeli immigrant parents. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Brandeis University in 2025, earning a B.A. in Politics, History, and International & Global Studies, and briefly studied abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem – though his time there was cut short by the outbreak of war. While at Brandeis, Tavorr wrote an Honors Thesis which earned him the highest level of honors, a project which focused on nuclear deterrence between Israel and Iran, and the prospect of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.

Before coming to Georgetown, Tavorr became interested in international law and national security subjects. During his undergraduate years, he presided over Brandeis’s Model U.N. Club, wrote for both law and politics journals, and completed in-depth analyses of important national security issues of the day. With the outbreak of war in Israel following the October 7 attack, Tavorr also became involved in nonprofit volunteer work aimed at supporting Israel by providing life-saving equipment to Israel, supporting displaced Israelis, and providing protective gear to community defense organizations.

At Georgetown, Tavorr hopes to study the intersection between law and national security, international law, surveillance law, and civil rights & liberties. He strongly believes that national security is an important subject, but one that must be handled with the utmost care so as to not only effectively protect people from harm, but to ensure that peoples’ rights are not harmed in the name of that protection.

In addition to his academic pursuits, Tavorr enjoys traveling the world, playing video games, trying new food, boating, and flying small planes. Tavorr is a native Hebrew speaker, and hopes to work in a security-oriented field after graduation.