Dr. Boms is a research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University. He is the Chairman of the Syria  Research Forum and the Gulf Israel Policy Forum, as well as the coordinator of the TAU Workshop on Israel and the Middle East and the Hiwar Forum for Intra-Regional Dialogue.

Dr. Boms is currently teaches at the Rothberg School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in addition to Tel Aviv University. His 2016 book, Expat-ing Democracy (Peter Lang, 2016) deals with the influence of Expat communities on democracy discourse in the Middle East. His recent book, The Syrian War: Between Justice and Political Reality (Cambridge university Press, 2020) is an edited volume on the Syrian War (2011 - 2019).

Amongst additional affiliations he is a fellow at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism in Herzliya; a member of the board of the Israeli Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute for monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education. He Co - Founded of CyberDissidents.org (now Movements.org), a network of bloggers from the Middle East that focuses on freedom of expression and the promotion of dialogue in the region. Under the framework of his educational and peace endeavors, he co-founded the Tiyul-Rihla project, in 2012, an initiative bringing Israelis and Palestinians together to travel and learn the history and identity of each other.