Israel-based
Hanna Adoni, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus of Communication and Journalism Department, Hebrew University; incumbent of the Danny Arnold Chair in Communication, Hebrew University
Fields: media and minorities; communication and cultural behavior; psycho-social uses of new technologies
E-mail: Msadoni@mscc.huji.ac.il
Shaul Arlosorof
Affiliation: Former Israeli water commissioner
Fields: Water acquisition; water use and retention in Israel; water as a factor in Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution
Tel.: 972-3-648-3279; 972-50-550-7742 (cell)
E-mail: sarlo@inter.net.il
Dan Avnon
Affiliation: Associate Professor specializing in Political Theroy, Department of Political Sceince; Head of the Federmann School of Public Policy & Government, Hebrew University
Fields: Classical and Jewish political philosophy; civic values and democratic practices in Israel and the world; hermeneutics and theories of interpretation
Tel.: 972-2-588-1533 (office); 972-2-567-2144 (home); 972-54-882-0604 (cell)
E-mail: danavnon@netvision.net.il
Yehuda Ben Meir
Affiliation: Author, National Security Decision making: The Israeli Case
Fields: Israeli domestic politics; civil-military relations in Israel; Israeli public opinion
Tel.: 972-3-640-0400 ext. 469; 972-50-380-8849
E-mail: benmeir@inss.org.il
Avraham Brichta
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Haifa
Fields: Comparative politics; government and politics of Israel; institutional and electoral reform
Tel.: 972-4-824-1743; 972-54-472-3041 (cell)
E-mail: brichta@poli.haifa.ac.il
Dan Caspi
Affiliation: Department of Communications Studies, Ben-Gurion University
Fields: Mass communication; political communication; public opinion and propaganda; Israeli media; media institutions; ethnic media; local press
Tel.: 972-2-586-9856; 972-54-489-1722 (cell)
E-mail: danca@bgu.ac.il
Stuart Cohen
Affiliation: Professor of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Israeli military strategy; societal-military relations in Israel
Tel.: 972-3-531-8958; 972-3-921-9986 (home)
E-mail: cohenst@mail.biu.ac.il
David Dery
Affiliation: Founder and chair, Delta Leadership Ltd.; Professor of Public Policy, Hebrew University; former senior policy analyst, Office of the Deputy-Prime Minister; former Chief Scientist, Ministry of Interior and Civil Service Commission
Fields: Public administration; public policy and administration in Israel; research and policy; organizational learning; local governance; agenda-setting in Israel’s government
E-mail: deryda@vms.huji.ac.il
Avraham Diskin
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University
Fields: Government and politics of Israel; electoral and constitutional reform
Tel.: 972-2-566-1323 (home); 972-2-561-7817; 972-52-362-9990 (cell)
E-mail: mshanna@mscc.huji.ac.il
Gideon Doron
Affiliation: Professor of Political Science, Tel Aviv University; current president, Israeli Association of Political Science
Fields: Government and politics of Israel; mass communications; public policy; electoral reform and constitutional change
Tel.: 972-3-640-7394; 972-50-554-2773 (cell)
E-mail: gideondoron@yahoo.com
Dr. Gil Feiler
Affiliation: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: U.S.-Israel economic relations; Arab markets and economies; Palestinian political and economic development
Tel.: 972-3-644-8977; 972-54-463-0515 (cell)
E-mail: gil@infoprod.co.il
Eran Feitelson
Affiliation: Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; former chair of the Israeli Nature Reserves and National Parks Commission
Fields: Transboundary water issues in the Israeli-Arab context; transformation of planning and land policies in Israel during the nineties; environmental policy; transportation policy and land-use policy; sustainability indicators for Israel; management of shared water resources
Tel.: 972-2-588-3346; 972-2-679-2693 (home); 972-52-428-2597 (cell)
E-mail: msfeitel@mscc.huji.ac.il
Itzhak Galnoor
Affiliation: Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University; Senior research Fellow at the Van Leer Institute
Fields: Israeli administration and politics; comparative politics; political communication; political humor; Israeli political system; territory and boundaries; Israeli democracy
Tel.: 972-2-560-5256 (office)
E-mail: itzhakg@vanleer.org.il
Yehuda Goodman
Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University
Fields: Identity politics; anthropology of religion; ultra-orthodox (Haredi) Jews; culture and politics; soldiership, morality and politics in the context of the conflict; politics of Jewish conversion in Israel
Tel.: 972-2-588-3430; 972-2-561-0751 (home)
E-mail: ygoodman@mscc.huji.ac.il
Reuven Y. Hazan
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University
Fields: Political parties and party systems; elections and electoral laws; political representation; executive-legislative relations; parliament legislative committees; Israeli political parties and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; electoral reform
Tel.: 972-2-588-1117; 972-2-533-3076 (home)
E-mail: mshazan@mscc.huji.ac.il
Dr. Yaacov Katz
Affiliation: School of Education, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Educational systems in Israel
Tel.: 972-3-738-4605; 972-2-993-1279 (home)
E-mail: katzya@mail.biu.ac.il
Mordechai Kremnitzer
Affiliation: Professor, Deptartment of Law, Hebrew University; Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute, Chairman, Israel Press Council
Fields: Education system; Israeli police system; constitutional principles and their implementation; national security and democracy; political corruption; civil and human rights in times of security crises; powers and responsibilities of Israel’s Security Services (Shin Bet) in its treatment of suspected terrorists
Tel.: 972-2-530-0849
E-mail: msmoka@mscc.huji.ac.il On sabbatical, may be unreachable
Peter Medding
Affiliation: Professor, Departments ff Political Science and Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University; Editor, annual Studies of Contemporary Jewry
Fields: Israeli politics; political parties and organized interests in contemporary democracies; Jewish politics; the development of Israeli democracy; the politics of American Jews
Tel.: 972-2-588-3269
E-mail: speter@mscc.huji.ac.il
Rafi Melnick
Affiliation: Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; senior economist and former deputy director of research, Bank of Israel
Fields: Israeli economics; monetary economics; macroeconomics; economic policy; econometrics; developed the State of the Economy Index which analyzes the real-time performance level and directional changes in the Israeli economy
Tel.: 972-9-952-7238 (office); 972-54-475-8448 (cell); 972-9-951-3828 (home)
E-mail: melnick@idc.ac.il
David Nachmias
Affiliation: Lecturer in Public Policies Study Division, Inter-Disciplinary Center in Herzliya
Fields: Israeli politics; political parties and organized interests in contemporary democracies; Jewish politics; the development of Israeli democracy; politics of American Jews
Tel.: 972-9-952-7291; 972-50-747-6858 (cell)
E-mail: davidna@idc.ac.il
Mordechai Ben-Porat
Affiliation: Chairman, Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center; former Knesset member and minister
Fields: Refugees in the Middle East; Israeli politics; Iraqi Jews
Tel.: 972-3-533-9278 (office)
E-mail: babylon@babylonjewry.org.il
Arye Ratner
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa; Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Haifa
Fields:Criminal justice system in Israel; attitudes of Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs towards the legal system
Tel.: 972-4-824-0010; 972-4-824-0994; 972-4-824-0995
E-mail: arattner@soc.haifa.ac.il
Gabriel Sheffer
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University
Fields: Ethnic politics; politics of ethno-national diasporas; leadership; public policy and processes of change in Israel; social-political-military relations
Tel.: 972-3-691-5404
E-mail: msgabi@mscc.huji.ac.il
Yair Sheleg
Affiliation: Researcher, Israel Democracy Unit; Journalist, Ha’aretz
Fields: Religion and state; relationship between Israel’s ultra-orthodox community and the Israel Defense Forces
Tel.: 972-2-530-0835; 972-50-743-9995 (cell)
E-mail: yair@idi.org.il
Dov Shinar
Affiliation: Founder and Head, Center for Peace Journalism, Netanya Academic College; Professor Emeritus, Ben Gurion University; principal investigator, TODA Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research
Fields: Evolving impact of the media on Israeli society and political culture; the media as a factor in Middle East peacemaking
Tel.: 972-8-647-7211; 972-8-647-7212
E-mail: shinard@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Yedidia Stern
Affiliation: Professor of law, Bar-Ilan University; Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
Fields: Religion and state; Jewish law; the Israeli judicial system
Tel.: 972-3-531-8414; 972-2-673-1122 (home)
E-mail: sternyz@mail.biu.ac.il
Gadi Taub
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Communication, Hebrew University; op-ed columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth; novelist
Fields: Contemporary Israeli society and culture; influence of American ideas of Israel; individualism and society; philosophical pragmatism; postmodernism; post-Zionism
Tel.: 972-52-468-1133 (cell)
E-mail: gaditaub@zahav.net.il
Hani Zubida
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
Fields: Israeli electoral system; social mobility in Israeli society; Israeli democracy and its socio-economic and political realms; voting behavior; electoral analysis; migrant workers; social and physical borders Contact through spokesperson
Tel.: 972-9-960-2754 ext. 7618
E-mail: hzubida@idc.ac.il
U.S.-based
Mitchell Bard, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Executive Director, American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Fields: Israeli society, history and politics; U.S.-Israel relations
Tel.: 301-565-3918
E-mail: mgbard@aol.com
Web site: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
Prof. Yoram Peri
Affiliation: Director, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, University of Maryland; Former political adviser to late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; former editor-in-chief of the Israeli daily Davar newspaper
Fields: Israeli domestic politics; peace process
Tel.: 301-405-9413
E-mail: israelstudies-contact@umd.edu
Web site: http://www.israelstudies.umd.edu/director.html
Jonathan Peled
Affiliation: Spokesman, Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.
Fields: U.S.-Israel relations; peace process; Israeli government policies
Tel.: (202) 276-2800 (cell)
E-mail: sp@washington.mfa.gov.il
Malcolm Hoenlein
Affiliation: Executive Vice Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations
Fields: Israeli-American relations
Tel.: 212-318-6111
E-mail: info@conferenceofpresidents.org
Web site: http://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/content.asp?id=63
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