Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University in Boston; research interests include the media’s role in shaping the sphere of public discourse, media criticism, media coverage of social and political conflicts, and representation of minorities in the media.

Professor in the department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University in the Negev. Research interests include health policy, the right to health, inequality in health and accessibility to health services, and privatization of the health system. Additional research areas: the connection between neoliberalism, the crisis of representation, the limitations of liberal democracy and the growth of populist movements. Board member of Physicians for Human Rights.

Professor of Social Work at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University. Areas of research and instruction include (1) clinical and administrative information systems in human resources services – uses and influences, (2) evaluation of processes, results, impacts and sustainability of social programs, (3) minority groups and at risk populations, (4) critical examination of practices and experiences of social workers, (5) social work and social justice.

Architect and city planner, graduate of MIT (MAarch) and the Technion (Ph.D.), member of the Faculty of Architecture and City Planning and head of the Technion Social Hub. Her research, based on critical theory in the social sciences, cultural and gender studies, intermediates between different practices of the creation of space and examines the mutual relations between policy (planning) and physical design (architecture) and that between daily life, in order to enrich the toolbox of the planner in a way that combines professional knowledge, local knowledge and knowledge of place. She has worked on housing projects in the United States, Holland and Israel, engaging primarily in urban design and neighborhood planning. Her professional work is primarily with community and civil society organizations and aims at strengthening community involvement in planning.

Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Former Department Chair and the President of the Israeli Sociological Association (2016-2018). He is a major contributor to the renewal of critical sociology in Israel, to the analysis of post- and neo-Zionist trends in Israeli political culture, and to global studies of Israel.

Self-employed attorney, holder of MA degree in International Human Rights Law. Areas of interest: social and economic rights. Expertise in labor rights, social security and family law. Worked in the organizations Kayan: Palestinian Feminist Organization, Adva Center and Physicians for Human Rights.

Graduate of Senior Business Administration program at Haifa University. Mizrahi feminist activist. Active during the past 40 years in feminist and social change organizations. Co-founder of the following feminist and social change organizations: Yated Community Organizing in Development Towns and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods, Emergency Shelter for Battered Women, Women’s Coalition for Peace, Ahoti, Isha L’Isha – Haifa Feminist Center, Violence Against Women Hotline, and Women’s Economic Empowerment.

Hedva Isachar