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Senior research scholar and Disabilities Team leader, the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (MJB), Israeli center for applied social research.

PhD in social work at the University of Haifa.

MA in organizational psychology from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

BA in behavioral sciences from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Primary research areas: children with disabilities, housing for people with disabilities, and their participation in society, collection and analysis of data on Israelis with disabilities and the implications for social policy.

Mrs. Gitit Broid is a Ph.D student at Ben-Gurion University. Her research deals with immigration, multiculturalism and specifically, parental experience during cultural transition, and the changes in values, believes and practices of parents from the Bukharan community.

Gitit Broid is a social worker and a psychotherapist, who works in a mental haelth clinic, and in a private clinic, a group psychotherapist and a supervisor. Previously she worked with adolescents, Holocaust survivors, 'second generation', and bereaved parents. She is an active partner in the 'DEMO' project, which deals with developing modernized curricula of immigrants and multicultural studies, in academic institutions in Israel, in collaboration with academic institutions in Europe.

She was a lecturer at the department of Social Work at Ben Gurion University and Beit Berl College.

A community social worker and researcher in the field of information and knowledge management. She holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in social work from the Hebrew University, as well as an additional master's degree and a Ph.D. in information and knowledge management from the University of Haifa. Her doctoral research focused on the online accessibility of rights-related information, information barriers in the process of claiming rights, readability, and search patterns. Her articles have been published in leading academic journals and have influenced the adaptation of information on the "Kol Zchut" website.
Alongside her research activities, Frida has held roles in knowledge management, learning, and evaluation in social organizations and the public sector, including the Ministry of Welfare, the Maoz organization, and Oranim College. She has worked for over a decade as a community social worker in organizations dedicated to promoting and making rights more accessible, striving to bridge the worlds of social welfare with data, information, and knowledge management.

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.