2021–2025 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute; Professor Emeritus at University of Haifa
Hanan Alexander is the 2021-2025 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Education at the University of Haifa, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Education and Head of the Center for Jewish and Democratic Education. An Affiliated Professor (Professor Extra Numerum) at the University of Warsaw, he has taught at American Jewish...
Spring 2025 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor; Professor at Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law
Adi Ayal is a Spring 2025 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor. Professor Adi Ayal is a distinguished academic holding dual PhDs in Economics from UC Berkeley (2007) and Law from Bar Ilan University (2002), where he graduated with the highest distinction. He currently serves as a Professor of Law and Economics at Bar Ilan University, specializing in corporate and competition law, and applying game theory to legal and...
Spring 2025 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor; Senior Lecturer and Dean of Students at the College of Management Academic Studies
Keren Friedman-Peleg is a Spring 2025 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor. Keren Friedman-Peleg has twice previously joined the Helen Diller Institute as a visiting professor, teaching in Anthropology. We are happy to welcome her back. She is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Management-Academic Studies, and in the last two decades has explored experiences of collective trauma and resilience in...
Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor (Fall 2023 and Fall 2024); Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in Israel Studies, Department of Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University
Dr. Eran Kaplan is the Rhoda and Richard Goldman Professor in Israel Studies at San Francisco State University, where he teaches courses on Modern Israel, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israeli Cinema, Modern Hebrew Culture and on the History of Jerusalem. He has a B.A. from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in Modern Jewish History from Brandeis University. Dr. Kaplan is the author of The...
Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor (2022–2023, Fall 2023); Associate Professor at Reichman University
Daniel A. Levy is an Associate Professor and Academic Director of the International Program at the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology at Reichman University – The Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He investigates the processes and brain substrates of human memory and attention, how brain damage and neurological illness affect those cognitive abilities, and how they might be improved by physiological and behavioral interventions...
2024–2025 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute; Senior Lecturer, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Noah Hysler Rubin is the 2024-2025 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute. A cultural geographer and town planner, she holds a degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research delves into the spatial dynamics of political, social, and cultural interactions in town planning. She is the author of Patrick Geddes and Town Planning: A Critical...
2021–2025 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley; Senior Faculty, Shalom Hartman Institute; Researcher at the Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law, Bar-Ilan University Law Faculty
Dr. Masua Sagiv is the 2021-2025 Koret Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute. Her scholarly work focuses on the development of contemporary Judaism in Israel, as a culture, religion, nationality, and as part of Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state. Her research explores...
2024–2025 Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the Helen Diller Institute; Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Yael Segalovitz is the 2024-2025 Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the Helen Diller Institute. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She received her PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley (2018), where she was a Townsend Center Fellow, and a Posen Fellow. Her research spans American,...
