Lavi is a serial social entrepreneur and an experienced community development professional who believes that networks are key to the next generation’s reality. He is a member of Garin Shuva, a community on the Gaza Strip border, and of Nettiot - Mission-Driven Communities Network integrating ba'alei teshuva into Israeli society. Lavi is a co-founder of the Israeli Task Groups and Communities Council, heads its development department, and is involved in creating similar communities in North America. Lavi is also the founder and manager of several unique socially oriented enterprises - among them the Chitzim Migrant Community Center, and the Rakyia Project, which develops curricula that combine Torah and secular studies for the ultra-orthodox school system.
With a B.A. degree in Economics and Geography from Hebrew University, and an MA History, Philosophy and the Sociology of Science from Bar-Ilan University, Lavi is currently writing his doctoral dissertation on public education policy. He is a member of several thinktanks and research institutes, such as BIU's Nitzotzot Forum and the Kohelet Policy Forum for Economic and Political Thought and has published a book on Economic Jewish Thought. Lavi is member of several networks of activists in the Jewish world, like the Tikva (hope) Network, the Schusterman Foundation's ROI Network, and the Siach Network. He lives with his wife Liat and their four children in Shuva – located in one of Israel's most beautiful areas - and uses any spare time available to ride his bike and study Torah.