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Keren Hadar, B.A and M.S.W graduate in School of Social Work of the University of Haifa. Integrates the field and academy. For the past 14 years, has been working as a community social work and as a volunteer coordinator in the social services department at Hadar, Haifa. At the same time as working in the field, involved in integration in research and academia
These days, Phd candidate, in the advanced writing stages of the doctoral dissertation on the subject of relationships between team members under the guidance of Prof. Guy Enosh and Prof. Shay Tzafrir, from University of Haifa. The purpose of this work is to examine relationships between staff members among service providers, with the sector that have been chosen to examine in the current study is social services departments in Israel. This case is interesting, as it is a professional sector that socializes into the professional values of social work (the bride, empathy), which at the same time include challenging working conditions (such as; workload, lack of budgets) that can cause frustration and aggression. This work combines qualitative and quantitative research that includes two rounds. 

Hozam is a social worker and a doctoral student at the Hebrew University's School of Social Work and Social Welfare. Her doctoral dissertation examines the image of social work and female social workers in Palestinian society in Israel from a critical perspective, supervised by Prof. Mimi Ajzenstadt and Prof. Edith Blit-Cohen.
She holds a bachelor's and master's degree in social work from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her Master thesis focused on the experiences of female community social workers in Palestinian society in Israel, the challenges they face in their work, and their coping strategies, under the supervision of Prof. Edith Blit-Cohen.
Among her professional experience, she has worked as a student counselor at the Technion and a research assistant at different academic institutions. Prior to this, she managed the emergency line for victims of sexual assault at Alssiwar association, and today she serves as a member of it's Board.

Holds a PhD from Bar Ilan University and a master's degree in the clinical Course also from Bar Ilan University. Organizational consulting and group training studies. have expertise in child and youth.

Member of the Disciplinary Committee under the Social Workers Act. 

Combines clinical knowledge with systemic knowledge. 

My professional field of work over the past 25 years has been the development and operation of supervision of out-of-home settings for children and youth and for people with a wide variety of disabilities. In the last decate  I'm working in the Ministry of Labor and Welfare and social services,

in the development of policies, services and knowledge in the field. Currently, the Director of the Community Housing Service in the Disability Administration.

Yoav Levinstein is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist recently retired from the IDF Health department.

Completed his Bachelor’s degree in Social Work in Tel Aviv university.

He received his Master’s degree from Bar Ilan University, writing his thesis about “Secondary traumatization among wives of IDF combat soldiers, the contribution of Ambiguous loss”.

Yoav is currently a PhD candidate in Bar Ilan School of social work. 

His dissertation is about PTSD symptom trajectories among combat veterans, specifically studying the impact of Moral Injury on these trajectories.

Yoav completed the psychoanalytic psychotherapy program in Bar Ilan University.

His scientific interests include Combat PTSD, Moral injury, Resilience strategies and Mental fitness.

Dr. Yifat Mor-Salwo, School of Social Work, Hadassah Academic College Jerusalem

Chen Sharony has a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her study deals with the gap between Public preferences for redistribution and actual policy. Chen also takes part in studies concerning social capital and health and public preferences for redistribution. Chen teaches several courses at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sapir Academic College and Ashkelon Academic college.

Ruth Soffer-Elnekave is a doctoral student in the School of Social Work in the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation explores Social work practice in areas of Intractable Conflict, specifically Jewish-Israeli social workers’ professional life stories in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and their perspectives about the professions’ roles in addressing the effects of the conflict and promoting peace.
Practiced in child welfare services and foster care for many years, specifically in developing culturally sensitive foster services for the Arab population in Israel. Group therapist, supervisor, and researcher in areas of child welfare, cultural sensitivity and the social work profession and development. 

Yosay Unterman graduate from the Hebrew University his first and second degree in social work, his thesis dealt with the merger of welfare organizations. Over the years he has worked as a social community worker on a local and national level. Yosay, guided trained and directed for a decade the field training of social community students at the Hebrew University. Yosay was the CEO of an N.g.o the Israeli epilepsy association. In recent years Yosay is an adviser in dozens of social services throughout the country in community work and poverty.

Dr. Hadas Vittelson-Margalit (Phd) is a clinical psychologist.

She is a lecturer at the Social Work School at The Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College, and at Bar-Ilan University. 

She was also a lecturer at Ariel University in Samaria, at the Ruppin Academic Center, and at the Haredi branch in Jerusalem.

 She holds a BA degree and a MA degree in Clinical Psychology of children from the department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University. She received her PhD also from the department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University. Her research title was: "Self-Awareness: Adaptive and Pathological Aspects".

In parallel with her academic work, she is engaged in the field of psychotherapy as a clinical psychologist. She owns a private clinic in Jerusalem, for the treatment of children, teenagers and adults. Prior to that she worked as a clinical psychologist at the Geha Mental Health Center.