Professor Avia Spivak is a Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem since 2006, and is one of the founders of the Institute's Economics and Society Program. He is the Paul Ivanier Managerial Economics Professor of Economics at Ben-Gurion University, where he also served as Chair of the Economics Department and Dean of the […]

Professor Ephraim Kleiman is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Hebrew University. He participated in the negotiations between Israel and the PLO in Paris during the Oslo Process in 1993-1994.

Holds a PhD in philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2004).  Since completing her dissertation, she held various post-doc and research fellowships and was a visiting professor in several universities in and out of Israel. Has written and published on Hobbes and Machiavelli; Just War and Terrorism; and the philosophy of emotion. A  volume […]

Eva Illouz is a full professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a member of the Center for the Study of Rationality. Her research interests include the field of of History and Sociology of Emotions, particularly the ways in which public culture and capitalism transform and shape emotional life. She is the author of eight […]

Dr. Ephraim Lavie, IDF colonel (ret.) is the Director of the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at the Tel Aviv University, and Research Fellow at The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African History. He received his PhD from the Tel Aviv University for his thesis “The Palestinians in the West Bank: Patterns […]

Dr. Bashir Bashir lectures on Modern Political Theory and Political Science in the Political Science Department and in the Faculty of Law at Hebrew University. His research focuses on modern democratic theory, multiculturalism, historic injustice, Palestinian political thought, conflict resolution and the politics of reconciliation. He holds a BA in Political Science and Sociology from […]

Hadas Ziv is the Director of Physicians for Human Rights. She served as CEO of the organization from 2004 to 2010, winning the Oak Fellowship for Human Rights in 2009. Ziv has written several works analyzing Israeli health policy in the occupied territories. She is the ethics coordinator for PHR, and in that capacity has […]

Professor Arie Arnon is a full Professor in the Department of Economics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He founded and chaired the Economics and Society Program at the Van Leer Institute. Arnon both coordinates and is member of the Steering Committee of the Aix Group, a think tank where Israeli, Palestinian and International experts discuss […]

Dr. Dimitry Shumsky is a lecturer in Israel Studies and the history of modern nationalism in the Department of the History of Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main research interests include the History of Zionism, the Yishuv and Israeli Socidety, Modern Nationalism, and the Jews of Central and Eastern […]

Dr. Tal Kochavi is an expert in Sociology and Anthropology.  She wrote her doctorate under Professor Zali Gurevitch at the Hebrew Univeristy in Jerusalem in addition her B.A. and M.A. in Sociology and Anthroplogy. Kochavi has worked for a decade to manage the Van Leer Institute’s research group on “constructing collective identity, civil society, and the […]