Yinon Guttel-Klein is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a senior advisor to the President of the State of Israel. In recent years, he has managed departments in the President's Office that deal with heritage, society, and government.

 His doctorate, titled “Stones with a Heart: Consensual Solidarity and Multivocality in Pantheonic Cemeteries,” is written under the supervision of Professor Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi and focuses on the processes of multivocality, solidarity, pantheonization, and de-pantheonization in pantheonic and national cemeteries. His research interests include collective memory, nationality, death, mnemonic landscapes, and commemoration.