FIRST TERM BOARD MEMBERS

  • | FIRST TERM BOARD MEMBER
    University of Haifa|2025 |Read More

    Dr. David Barak-Gorodetsky is the head of the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Interdisciplinary Center for the study of Antisemitism and Racism, and the director of the Ruderman Program for American-Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa. He is also a member of the academic committee of the newly established Freeze Center for shared society, and teaches at the interfaith MA program. His research interests include Jewish-American history and religious thought, Israel and World Jewry relations, Antisemitism and Political Theology, and the intersection of Antisemitism, technology and AI.

    Born and raised in Israel, David was formerly a technology expert in the Israeli Air Force and a VP at an Israeli startup company in NY. In recent years, he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a Shalom Hartman and JPPI Fellow. He recently taught about Israel in Jindal Global University in India, and is a board member of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS), and was the recent chair of its conference in Haifa. He writes frequently to various media outlets and is an acknowledged public speaker.

  • | FIRST TERM BOARD MEMBER
    Academic Center of Law and Science|2025 |Read More

    Professor Michal Tamir is Head of the Graduate Program at the Faculty of Law at the Academic Center of Law and Science. She has also taught as an adjunct professor at Bar-Ilan University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Haifa.

    She holds an LL.B. from the University of Haifa (1995, summa cum laude, graduating first in her class), an LL.M. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1999, summa cum laude, first in her class), and a Doctorate (LL.D., 2005) from the Hebrew University. Throughout her studies, she received numerous academic awards.

    Following her graduation, Professor Tamir clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel under Justice Yitzhak Zamir (1995–1996). She later served as a Global Research Fellow in the Hauser Program at New York University (NYU) School of Law (2005–2006) and as a Tikvah Fellow-in-Residence at NYU (2012–2013). Between the years 2021-2023 she was a visiting professor at the University of Berkely, California.

    From 2017 to 2019, she was President of the Israeli Law and Society Association and continues to serve as a member of its Presidents’ Forum. Since 2024, she has been serving as a Judge of the Zionist Supreme Court and as Chair of the Ethics Committee at Wolfson Medical Center.

    Her areas of expertise include public law in its broadest sense—constitutional, administrative, and criminal procedural law—with a particular focus on human rights and enforcement. She is the author of two books and numerous scholarly articles in both Hebrew and English.

  • | FIRST TERM BOARD MEMBER
    University of North Carolina - Pembroke|2025 |Read More

    Dr. Motti Inbari is a Jewish studies professor at UNC Pembroke and is considered a leading scholar in the study of religion and state relations in Israel. He is the author of seven books, and his teaching and research focus encompasses Jewish and Israeli history, thought, and culture, with expertise in Jewish politics and ethics, gender, and Jewish-Christian relations. His latest book, together with Kirill Bumin, is Christian Zionism in the Twenty-First Century: American Evangelical Public Opinion on Israel, published by Oxford University Press in 2024.

  • | FIRST TERM BOARD MEMBER
    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev|2025 |Read More

    Chen Sharony is a lecturer in public policy and management, and social policy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sapir Academic College, the Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College, and Ashkelon Academic College. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from Ben-Gurion University, where her research focused on public preferences for redistribution and policy outcomes in comparative perspective.

    Her scholarly work examines welfare policy, inequality, health disparities, and the relationship between public opinion and policy implementation, with a particular focus on Israeli society. She has published in leading journals, including Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis and Social Policy and Administration, and contributed to international volumes on regional science, health, and social capital.

    Dr. Sharony has presented her research at major international conferences such as ERSA, ECPR, ICPP, and AIS, and has received grants and awards from institutions including Israel’s National Insurance Institute and the Leumit Group. Her areas of expertise include social policy, redistribution, health and welfare systems, and public perceptions of governance.

    She is committed to advancing the study of public policy in Israel through a multidisciplinary lens, bridging policy analysis with broader questions of inequality, resilience, and social change.

  • | FIRST TERM BOARD MEMBER
    Freie Universität Berlin|2025 |Read More

    Amir Akiva Segal is a Post-Doc Fellow of the Minerva Stiftung at the Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Sociology – researching the Jewish and Israeli diaspora relations and transnational migration. Completed his Doctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the topic of transnational migrant employment in Israel, focusing on North American Jewish migrants employed in the fields of fundraising, politics, and baseball. Recently His general areas of research interest include transnational migration, Jewish migration, civil society philanthropy, and political poetry. Worked for several years as Fundraiser for non-profits in Israel and prior to that as an employment officer and a political and parliamentary advisor. Published three Poetry books and a novel, and a book about Israeli political poetry. Married to Anya and father of three.

  • | FIRST TERM BOARD MEMBER
    Tulane University|2025 |Read More

    Brian Horowitz holds the Sizeler Family Chair Professorship and is a full professor in Jewish Studies at Tulane University (New Orleans). He grew up in Roslyn, NY and attended New York University (B.A.) and University of California, Berkeley (M. A., PhD.), where he studied Slavic Languages. He has directed Jewish Studies at Tulane for 16 years. He is the recipient of many major awards including Yad Hamady, Lady Davis, Alexander Von Humboldt, and Fulbright. He is the author of six books that include Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Russian Years(2020); Russian Idea-Jewish Presence (2013); Empire Jews(2009) and Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia (2009). He is presently working on radical right-wing Zionism in the Mandate period as well as Russian-Jewish cultural life. In an earlier time, he was a scholar of the poet, Alexander Pushkin as well as Russian intellectual history. In recent days he has published in popular newspapers, such as theJerusalem Post,Times of Israel, Mosaic, and Jewish Review of Books. In addition to his 70+ original articles, he has published100 book reviews for journals in Israel, Europe, Russia, and the United States.

SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBERS

  • | SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBER (2023-2027)
    The Open University of Israel|First Term Board Members (2021-2025) |ilanbe@openu.ac.il |Read More

    Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication
    The Open University of Israel
    ilanbe@openu.ac.il

    Dr. Ilan Ben-Ami teaches at the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel. He is a graduate of Tel Aviv University [BA in Political Science and Sociology and MA in Sociology], and completed his Ph.D. in Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY, 1994). Dr. Ben Ami's scholarly works center on various aspects of Israeli politics, more specifically in women in politics. His most recent book was published in June 2019 and is titled: Tzipi Livni – Political Biography (Tel-Aviv, Steimatzky Publishing House). His previous book, published in 2010, was titled: Behind The Great Man: The Private and Public Lives of Israel's Prime Ministers' Wives (Tel-Aviv, Matar Publishing House).

  • | SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBER (2023-2027)
    The Open University of Israel|Read More

    The Open University of Israel

    Israel

    Professor (emerita) Aviva Halamish is a historian at the Open University of Israel. Her research encompasses the history of the Jewish people and of Palestine in the twentieth century, focusing on the history of Zionism; Jewish immigration in the twentieth century including illegal Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine; history of the Yishuv and of the state of Israel; the kibbutz; and historical biography. She authored or edited over a dozen books and published scores of articles on various aspects of her fields of expertise. Among her books The Exodus Affair: Holocaust Survivors and the Struggle for Palestine (1998) and Kibbutz: Utopia and Politics / The Life and Times of Meir Yaari, (2017). Served as Vice President (2007-2009) and President (2009-2011) of the AIS and on various Nominations and Ad-hoc committees of the Association. Member, in the past and present, of Editorial Boards including The Journal of Israeli, Cathedra for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv, Iyunim bi-Tkumat Israel, Moreshet: Journal for the Study of the Holocaust and Antisemitism; Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi Press, The Ben-Gurion Research Institute Press. Founder and first Director and Editor-in-Chief, The Open University Press Member of Israel Council for Higher Education (2016-2022).

  • | SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBER (2024-2027)
    Ramat-Gan Academic College|Read More

    Ramat-Gan Academic College

    Israel

    First-term board member and AIS officer of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

    Prof. Mohammed Wattad is a full professor of Law and president of Ramat-Gan Academic College. Between 2018 and 2024, he served as law school dean at Zefat Academic College, where he also served, between 2022 and 2023, as vice president for academic affairs. Besides, he is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel-Aviv University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Israeli Thought, a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Reichman University, and a Research Fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at Haifa University. Between 2018 and 2021, he served as a Research Fellow at the International Center for Health, Law, and Ethics at Haifa University. In addition, he serves as an Adjunct Professor at several law schools in Israel and abroad. From 2014-2016, he served as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California at Irvine, both at the Department of Political Science and the School of Law. Between 2003 and 2004, he served as a legal clerk at the Supreme Court of Israel under the supervision of Justice Dalia Dorner.

    Prof. Wattad is a legal scholar specializing in international and comparative criminal law, comparative constitutional law, international law, the laws of war, torture, and terrorism, conflict resolution, professional ethics, medical law, and the interaction between law and political science. Additionally, Prof. Wattad has expertise in the history of Israel and issues of self-image and identity in multicultural societies. 

    Prof. Wattad is a Haifa University School of Law graduate from Israel, having studied as an exchange student at Oxford University. Additionally, he accomplished higher academic education in Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Columbia University, New York, in the USA, the Munk Center of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Toronto University in Canada, the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Italy. Wattad graduated with distinction from all academic institutions he attended and was on the Dean's List. During his studies, Prof. Wattad has received several prizes of excellence and other prestigious fellowships, including Fulbright, Halbert, Minerva, and Humboldt.

    He is the 2020 winner of the prestigious Zeltner Young Scholar Award by the Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University and the 2015 winner of the prestigious Young Scholar Award on Israel Studies (the law field) by the Association for Israel Studies.

  • | SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBER (2023-2027)
    Michigan State University|Read More

    Michigan State University

    USA

    Vered Weiss is the Serling Israeli Visiting Scholar and The Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel at Michigan State University. Weiss is a faculty member in the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities, and teaches courses on Israeli culture, Israeli cinema and television, Hebrew literature, as well as world literature. Weiss is co-editor of Tracing Topographies: Revisiting the Concentration Camps Seventy Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz (Routledge, 2017), and is co-editing a volume about Israeli culture and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Lexington, 2023). Her current research project explores the interplay between the location of marginalized characters and the ways in which narrative empathy is formulated in literature, and she is also collaborating on a co-edited book with Elana Gomel about Israeli speculative fiction (Liverpool University Press). 

  • | SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBER (2023-2027)
    University of Tokyo|Read More

    University of Tokyo

    Japan

    Taro Tsurumi is Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Department of Area Studies. After getting Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo for his study on Russian Zionism, he stayed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and New York University as a post doc. Specializing in Zionist history in the Russian-speaking world and beyond, and with a historical sociological perspective, he has endeavored to connect East European & Russian history with Israeli history. He has recently engaged in projects on the memory of pogroms in Eastern Europe and its impact on the Zionist perception of Palestine and its people and government. Along with many Japanese books and articles, his articles have been published in English journals including Jewish Social Studies and Nations and Nationalism as well as a few English books. He edited two English volumes including From Europe's East to the Middle East: Israel's Russian and Polish Lineages (eds. with Kenneth B. Moss and Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). He has organized and hosted several international conferences, and been a board member of a few Japanese associations, including Japan Society for Jewish Studies.

  • | SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBER (2023-2027)
    Boston University|Read More

    Israel

  • | SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBER (2023-2027)
    Western Galilee College|Read More

    Western Galilee College

    Israel

    Osnat Akirav is an associate professor in Political Science at the Western Galilee College, Israel. The head of the Galilee research institute and the Western Galilee College president's advisor for gender fairness at the Western Galilee College. Her specialization is in legislative studies, setting the agenda, candidate selection methods, local government, gender and politics, minorities and politics, research methods, and Israeli political system. In 2016 she was a visiting scholar at Stanford University. She has many publications on the representative behavior in local government and in parliaments. She served 10 years as a local council representative. In 2010 and in 2015 she received a prize for outstanding teaching in political science from the American Political Science Association. In 2012 she received Edmond Safra Award for outstanding achievement and excellence. And, in 2022 she received the New Pioneers Award from the Union Sefaradi Mundial for her contribution to the Israeli society. In 2012 and 2016 she received a prize for best article from the Israeli Political Science Association. In 2015, 2018-2023 she received a prize for excellent researcher from the Western Galilee College. Since 2019 she has served as the vice president of the Israel Political Science Association (ISPSA). And, in 2023 she was elected as the temporary president of the Israel Political Science Association.

  • | SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBER (2023-2027)
    Reichman University/University at Albany, SUNY/The Open University of Israel |Read More

    Reichman University/University at Albany, SUNY/The Open University of Israel

    USA Israel

    Dr. Niva Golan-Nadir is a Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, The University at Albany, SUNY, and a research fellow at the Institute for Liberty and Responsibility, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy, Reichman University, where she further heads the honors program. Niva also teaches Comparative Politics and methodology courses at Reichman University and the Open University of Israel.
    Her main research interests are within the realm of Comparative Politics (with a special interest in Israel and Turkey), state-religion relations, Public Administration, and Israel Studies. Her research focuses on a comparative analysis of enduring gaps between public preferences, the policy as designed, and policy implementation. Her aim is to establish that within public administration, religion may be considered a paradigmatic case study.
    Her recent studies were published in peer-reviewed journals: American Review of Public Administration, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Policy Studies, and Israel Studies Review. Her recent book (based on her 'Israel Institute-funded Ph.D. dissertation) was published in 2022 by Palgrave Macmillan and has been awarded final list and honorary mention (second place) by the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Concordia University Library.

  • | SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBER (2023-2027)
    Franklin & Marshall College|Read More

    Franklin & Marshall College

    USA

    Marco Di Giulio is an associate professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.  He has written on the vernacularization of Hebrew, especially in nineteenth-century Italian Judaism and the Yishuv. His most recent research interests focus on the history of disability in Israel.

  • | SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBER (2023-2027)
    Bar-Ilan University|Read More

    Bar-Ilan University

    Israel

    Kimmy Caplan teaches Modern Jewish History in the Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. His field of scholarly interest is Jewish Religious History in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on religious streams, popular religion, preaching, and homiletics. His prime focus in recent years is Haredi society in the 20th century.

  • | SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBER (2023-2027)
    Emory University|Read More

    Emory University

    USA

    Eli Sperling served as the Senior Academic Research Coordinator at Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel from 2012-2020, and taught as a guest Professor at the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies from 2019–2020. Eli received his PhD from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Fall 2019; and from 2020-2022, he served as a Postdoctoral Associate in Duke University’s Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Since Fall 2022, he has served as the Israel Institute Teaching Fellow in the University of Georgia’s Department of International Affairs. Eli is the author of the forthcoming book Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America, University of Michigan Press.

  • | SECOND TERM BOARD MEMBER (2023-2027)
    Jagiellonian University in Krakow|Read More

    Jagiellonian University in Krakow

    Poland

    Artur Skorek is the Chair of the European Association of Israel Studies, adjunct professor at the Institute of the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University in Krakow (JUK), a political scientist specializing in Israel and international relations. He holds Ph.D. in political science and an M.A. in international relations and religion studies from UJ. Artur Skorek’s research focused both on the political system of Israel (especially religion’s influence on politics and law) and its international relations. Recently he has followed the latter research direction, concentrating on Israeli security, especially in its ontological dimension. He is the author of two books on the Israeli political system and over 30 academic papers (selected works: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Artur_Skorek). He was a visiting scholar in City, University of London. Artur Skorek was the Executive Secretary of the European Israel Studies Association 2020-2022, he started his term as the chair of the Association in January 2023. He is also a
    member of the Association of Israel Studies, European International Studies Association, and Polish Association for Jewish Studies. Also, his didactic work has revolved around Israel and its role in the Middle East. He has been an academic teacher in several Polish universities, and gave guest lectures in European and Israeli universities. In 2022 he was bestowed a Medal of the Polish Commission of National Education for an outstanding contribution to education.

AIS EXECUTIVES

  • | PRESIDENT
    Concordia University|Read More

    Concordia University
    Canada

    Csaba Nikolenyi is President of the Association for Israel Studies and Professor of Political Science and Director of the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). Previously he served as English Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2006-11), Chair of the Department of Political Science (2011-14), and Chair of the International Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee of the Azrieli Foundation. He held Visiting Professor appointments at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2007-8, 2015-6), Science Po Grenoble (2015), the Centre for European Studies at the Australian National University (2012), O.P. Jindal Open Global University in India (2016), and the Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (2020). Nikolenyi’s research has been
    supported by several grants awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He has published three books and several scholarly articles in comparative politics and area journals including Party Politics, Israel Studies and West European Politics. His recent book on Party Switching in Israel is published by the State University of New York Press. Currently, he is completing a monograph on the political history of the Israeli presidency.

  • | VICE PRESIDENT
    Queen's University |Read More

    Oded Haklai (PhD, 2004, University of Toronto) is a professor in the Department of Political Studies and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity at Queen’s University in Canada. Haklai has written extensively on Israeli politics, state-majority-minority relations, the politics of settlers in contested lands, and democracy in deeply divided societies. His research has been recognized with several awards, including the Shapiro Award in 2012 for Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel and the Outstanding Paper Award by the International Studies Association - Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section in 2022 for his article “Population Settlements and Territorial Control.” Haklai has held visiting scholarships, fellowships, and professorships at Harvard University, George Washington University, Brandies University, Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Toronto. In 2024, he became an affiliated professor at Ben-Gurion University for a period of three years and the recipient of the Distinguished Visiting Professor Award.

    Haklai is current Vice-President of the Association for Israel Studies and has served as co-editor of the Israel Studies Review since 2021 (a term that will end in 2026) and on the Board of Directors (2009-2013; 2015-2019; and ex officio since 2021). He also served multiple times on the following award committees: Shapiro Book Award, Kimmerling Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, and Ben Halpern Award.  

  • | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
    University of Haifa, ISRAEL |ashamis@staff.haifa.ac.il |Read More

    Department of Israel Studies
    University of Haifa, ISRAEL
    ashamis@staff.haifa.ac.il

    Dr. Asaf J. Shamis is an assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Israel Studies Department at the University of Haifa. Dr. Shamis is a graduate of the Hebrew University [BA in Political Science and International Relations (Magna cum Laude) and MA in Political Science (Magna cum Laude)]. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). From 2014 to 2016 he served as a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University. Over the years, Dr. Shamis has taught a wide variety of courses both in the US and in Israel on Israeli politics, political theory, the politics of technology and the history of Zionism. Dr. Shamis’ scholarly works center on the historical and conceptual intersections between ideology and technology. He is currently working on an extensive project in which he aims to provide a first comprehensive account of the place of technology in early Zionist thought. The study explores the role early Zionist thinkers assigned tools, devices and machines in their vision of a Jewish homeland.

ISRAEL STUDIES REVIEW

  • | EDITOR, ISRAEL STUDIES REVIEW
    Queen's University |Read More

    Co-Editor, Israel Studies Review
    Queen's University
    Ex Officio (Book Review Editor, Israel Studies Review)
    Canada

    Oded Haklai is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He teaches and researches nationalism and ethnic conflict, Israeli-Palestinian relations, state-minority relations, and the politics of settlers and territorial disputes. Haklai is the author of Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel, recipient of the Shapiro Award as well as numerous journal articles. He is also co-editor of Settlers in Contested Lands: Territorial Dipsutes and Ethnic Conflict. Haklai has held several visiting fellowships and scholarships, including at the Truman Research Institute, Moshe Dayan Center, and the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University. 

  • | EDITOR, ISRAEL STUDIES REVIEW
    The Open University of Israel |Read More

    Co-Editor, Israel Studies Review
    The Open University of Israel
    Israel

    Adia Mendelson-Maoz is an associate professor in Israeli literature and culture in the Department of Literature, Language and Arts at the Open University of Israel. She investigates the multifaceted relationships between literature, ethics, politics, and culture, mainly in the context of Hebrew Literature and Israeli culture. Her recent books include Multiculturalism in Israel - Literary Perspectives (Purdue UP, 2014); Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada, (Purdue UP, 2018); and her Hebrew book Territories and Borders in the Shadow of the Intifada: Ethical Reading of Hebrew Literature 1987-2007 (Magnes Press 2021). Mendelson-Maoz discovered Yoram Kaniuk's unpublished manuscript Sabon (Soap, 2018) and served as a scientific editor for its publication. Currently she writes a manuscript that aims to present a comprehensive picture of Kaniuk's literary endeavor, based on his personal archive. Her new research project, with Avi Shmidman, Bar Ilan University, applies methods from Digital Humanities to the study of Hebrew Literature historiography. The project "Computational Stylistic Profiles for the Analysis of Modern Hebrew Prose" won the Israel Ministry of Science grant for Digital Humanities in 2020. 

WOMEN’S CAUCUS

The Women’s Caucus serves as a forum for discussing the challenges and opportunities facing women in our field, promoting gender equality, and fostering a supportive community.

  • | Women's Caucus Chair
    Brandeis University|2020 |moriaran@gmail.com |Read More

    Moria Ran received her PhD from Bar Ilan University in The Land of Israel and Archaeology. Her dissertation was titled “The Individual, the Feminine and the Public: The Portrait of Professor Alice Shalvi and Her Enterprises as a Reflection of the Development of Women’s Status in Israeli Society.” She also studied at Bar Ilan’s seminary for women, The Midrasha for Women and at Midrashet Lindenbaum, focusing on Talmud. She teaches academic writing at the Open University of Israel. She was at the Hadassah Brandeis Institute as a scholar in residence for the 2019-2020 academic year, working on research that examined the journey in Orthodox feminism in Israel and the United States, looking at both Kolech and JOFA.

ACADEMIC FREEDOM COMMITTEE

The AFC addresses policies and actions that threaten fundamental principles of academic freedom. This includes matters affecting the freedom of students and scholars to engage, study, and conduct research in or about Israel.  

The committee is chaired by Asa Kasher. Members include Menachem Hofnung, Lihi Lahat, Nohad Ali and Phillip Hollander.

  • | ACADEMIC FREEDOM COMMITTEE
    Tel Aviv University |Read More

    Tel Aviv University
    Israel

    Asa Kasher is Professor Emeritus of Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice, Tel Aviv University and Senior Research Guest, INSS, participating in the Military-Society Research Program activities.

    Prof. Kasher has done research in the areas of Professional Ethics, Organizational Ethics and the Moral Foundations of Democracy. Within the framework of these areas he wrote the books "Israeli Ethics" and "More on Israeli Ethics" (Keter) as well as "Military Ethics" (Modan and Ministry of Defense) which won the Izhak Sade Prize of Military Literature, and "Spirit of a Man" (Am Oved). Published 450 papers and ethical documents in these and other areas, for all of which he won the Israel Prize for Philosophy (2000).

    Prof. Kasher wrote or participated in writing numerous codes of ethics of State, Public, Professional and Business organizations, including the IDF Code of Ethics (1994) and the codes of ethics of the Ministry of Defense and Israel Police.

    He was a member of many Governmental Public committees, chaired by justices Shamgar (2), Zamir, Procacia, Matsa, Arbel and Winograd, and Generals Hoffi, Dagan, Shavit, Shani and Yaron.

STAFF

  • | Financial Manager
    Association for Israel Studies|Read More

    Department of Israel Studies

    FINANCIAL MANAGER

  • | AIS Conference Coordinator and Website Manager
    Association for Israel Studies|anina@aisisraelstudies.org |Read More

    CONFERENCE COORDINATOR AND WEBSITE MANAGER
    Association for Israel Studies
    anina@aisisraelstudies.org

  • | Assistant to Executive Director
    University of Haifa, ISRAEL|ais@aisisraelstudies.org |Read More

    Department of Israel Studies

    University of Haifa, ISRAEL
    scolley@campus.haifa.ac.il

AIS FORMER PRESIDENTS