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Aya Shoshan is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and Communication at Hadassah Academic College and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University. Her research focuses on social movements and struggles for social and political change around the world. Shoshan served as a visiting scholar in University of California, Irvine. She completed her MA and PhD in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University, and her BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University.

I am a political scientist specializing in political psychology, focusing on terrorism, immigration, and political trust. My research examines the psycho-political consequences of terrorism—both cyber and conventional—on political attitudes and behavior, as well as public perceptions of refugees and asylum seekers. Using quantitative methodologies, I analyze intergroup relations and public opinion in conflict-affected societies.

I earned my B.A. in Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology from Tel Aviv University and an M.A. in Political Science (Political Communication). I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Haifa under the supervision of Prof. Daphna Canetti, exploring the impact of political violence on attitudes toward asylum seekers. My postdoctoral research at Stony Brook University in New York, mentored by Prof. Leonie Huddy, examined the role of emotions in shaping public responses to terrorism and media consumption. During this time, I also taught in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University in New Jersey. I later conducted postdoctoral work at the University of Haifa, focusing on cybersecurity and digital surveillance. 

I have held academic positions at the University of Haifa, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Reichman University. Before academia, I worked in public affairs, serving as Senior Advisor to Minister Gideon Ezra and later as Deputy Spokesperson for the Municipality of Holon.

Since 2023, I have been a faculty member in the Department of Politics & Communication at Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem.

Contact:

kerensn@jmc.ac.il

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Dr. Carmit Wiesslitz, Ph.D. is lecturer in the Department of Politics and Communications at Hadassah Academic College, Israel. Her research interests are: the relationships between civil society, democracy and ICTs'; Internet and social change; alternative media; digital labor; women activists and the Internet; and politics in the digital age. Dr. Wiesslitz has recently published her book: Internet Democracy and Social Change: The Case of Israel (2019) that was published by Lexington books. Dr. Wiesslitz is a graduate of NYU's Steinhardt M.A. program in Media, Culture and Communication and completed her Ph.D. at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Research Areas

civil society, democracy and ICTs'; Internet and social change; alternative media; digital labor; women activists and the Internet; and politics in the digital age.

"Amihai Yacobbi
Copywriter and Marketing Strategist

Experience:
2007-2023 Freelance copywriter and content editor, digital campaign manager: Microsoft,
Menorah Mitvahitim, Bank Tefahot, Yesh Atid, Clalit, Maccabi Tel Aviv and others.

2006-2007 Virtual communities manager at 888 online gaming (Random Logic)

2005-2007 Writer for SBC network’s magazines and Ynet's computer channel.
Founder and editor of the ""Politnet"" website

2001-2005 nana10 Portal: founder and editor of ""Janana"", the youth website and newsletter
homepage editor
Writer and reviewer at nana10’s culture, computer, internet and news channels.
Weekly columns: ""Our Ambassador to the Internet"" and ""The Wonders of
Technology”

2000-2001 Ynet website: writer in the culture, computer and tourism channels. Founder of
the ""Happening Things"" streaming section

1996-2001 Radio Tel-Aviv: broadcaster and music editor. Hosted a personal program ""Under
Cover of the Night""
Teacher at the College of Radio Professionals at Radio Tel Aviv
Advertisement and promo announcer (Tnuva, Levi’s, Cellcom, Educational
Television and others)

1993-1995 “The City Mouse” and “The City” magazines of Shoken Network: wrote in the:
""New in Music"", ""The Recommendation of the Week"" and ""It's Trending"" sections

1993-1998 Musician and recording technician, music teacher and musical director

Military Service
1984-1988 Air Force - ""Ramat David"": Electronics technician in charge of training
and certification

Education
1980-1983 ""Ort Kfar-Saba"" high school, majoring in electronics
1977-1980 Middle School of the ""Hadassim"" Youth Village

"

Prof. Dalia Gavriely-Nuri received her LL.B from the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her M.A. (Summa Cum Laude) from the Security Studies Department at Tel Aviv University. She received her Ph.D. from the Cultural Studies Department at Tel Aviv University. 

Prof. Gavriely-Nuri joined the Politics & Communication Department at Hadassah Academic College since its establishment in 2011. 

Prof. Gavriely-Nuri developed a theoretical approach in discourse studies, CCDA – A Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. This approach aims at exposing the cultural codes embedded in discourse, which contribute to reproducing abuses of social power. 

Her book, Israeli Peace Discourse (John Benjamins, 2015) was published in 2015. 

Contact

daliaga@jmc.ac.il

List of publications

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 Publications Books

• Friedman E. and Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2018). Israeli Discourse and the West Bank: Dialectics of Normalization and Estrangement. London and New York, Routledge.

• Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2017). Tel Aviv was also an Arab village. New York, Israel Academic Press (In Hebrew).

• Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2015). Israeli Peace Discourse: A Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. Amsterdam and London: John Benjamins.

• Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2015). Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War. Israel Academic Press (in Hebrew, translated from the English version).

• Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2014). Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War. Lexington Books. Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Maryland.

• Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2013). The Normalization of War in the Israeli Discourse. Lexington Books. Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Maryland.

• Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2012). ‘Peace’ In Israeli Political Discourse. The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University.

Publications in refereed journals

1. Gavriely-Nuri, D. and Friedman E. (2018). Israeli Normalization Discourse Leading to the Yom Kippur War. Israel Studies Review.

2. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2016). The Outbreak of Peace in Israeli Children's Periodicals, 1977–1979. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 11(2): 214-228. 

3. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2014). Collective Memory as a Metaphor. Memory Studies 7 (1): 46-60.

4. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2014). Saying 'Peace', Going to 'War' - Peace in the Service of the Israeli Just-War Rhetoric. Critical Discourse Studies 11 (1):1-18. IF=0.9.

5. Lachover, E. and Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2013). Israeli Stamps 1948-2010: Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism. Israel Affairs 19 (2): 321-337.

6. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2012). Cultural Codes and Military Ethics –The Israeli Leadership and the POWs in 1973 War. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 7 (3): 213-226.

7. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2012). War-Normalizing Dialogue (WND) in Dialogue in Politics, Lawrence N. Berlin and Anita Fetzer (Eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (in the series: Dialogue Studies), 221-241.

8. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2012). Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. Critical Discourse Studies 9 (1): 77-85.

9. Gavriely-Nuri, D. and Lachover, E. (2012). Reframing the Past as a Cosmopolitan Memory - Obituaries in the Israeli Daily Haaretz. Communication Theory 22: 48–65.

10. Lachover, E. and Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2011). Requiem to Nationalism? Shaping a collective Israeli identity through obituaries. Global Media: Mediterranean Edition 6(1): 24-39.

11. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2010). The Idiosyncratic Language of Israeli 'Peace' - A Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CCDA). Discourse and Society 21 (5): 1-21.

12. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2010). Rainbow, Snow, and the Poplar's Song: The 'Annihilative Naming' of Israeli Military Practices. Armed Forces and Society 36 (5): 825-846.

13. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2010). If Both Opponents 'Extend Hands in Peace' Why Don’t They Meet? - Mythic Metaphors and Cultural Codes in the Israeli Peace Discourse. Journal of Language and Politics 9 (3) 449-468. (Republished in: Wodak, R. (2013). Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Sage Publications).

14. Gavriely-Nuri, D. and Balas, T. (2010). 'Annihilating Framing': How Israeli Television Framed Wounded Soldiers during the Second Lebanon War (2006). Journalism 11(4): 409-423. 

15. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2009) 'It is not the Heroes Who Need this, but the Nation' - The Latent Power of Military Decorations in Israel, 1948-2005. Journal of Power 2 (3): 403-421. 

16. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2009) Friendly Fire: War-Normalizing Metaphors in the Israeli Political Discourse. Journal of Peace Education 6 (2): 153–169.

17. Gavriely-Nuri, D. Lahav, H. and Topol, N. (2008). Women's Representation in the Israeli Press during the Yom Kippur War (1973). Global Media: Mediterranean Edition 3 (1) (Online journal).

18. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2007). The Social Construction of Jerusalem of Gold as an Unofficial Anthem, Israel Studies 12 (2): 104-120. 

19. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2008) 'Saying ‘War’, Thinking ‘Victory’-The Mythmaking Surrounding Israel's 1967 Victory' Israel Studies 15 (1): 95-114.

20. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2008) The ‘Metaphorical Annihilation’ of the Second Lebanon War (2006) from the Israeli Political Discourse'. Discourse and Society 19 (1): 5-20. IF=1.4

21. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2006) Israel’s Cultural Code of Captivity and the Personal Stories of Yom Kippur War POWs. Armed Forces and Society 33: 94-105.

In Hebrew

22. Gavriely-Nuri (2016). The normalization of the territories’ occupation: The birth of the Israeli discourse 1967. Israel Studies in Language and Society 9(1-2):71-97. 

23. Gavriely-Nuri, D. and Topol, N. (2012). 'You Can’t Cross a Chasm in Two Small Jumps'- On the Absence of Reconciliation Processes in Herzl's Altneuland. Teuda 24: 174-191. (Tel Aviv University).

24. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2010) 'Peace will Triumph'- the 'Semantic Blurring' between Peace and War in the Israeli Political Discourse. Israel Studies in Language and Society 3 (2): 166-179.

25. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2009). 'Appropriated Militarism – The Case Study of Jerusalem of Gold. Politika 19:41-60.

26. (2010) The Displacement of the Sycamore from Holon Interchange” Te’oria U'vikoret 36:255-261.

27. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2008) POWs of Israeli Culture 1948-2006, Politika 18: 173-193.

28. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2007) The Pretty War - Representations of War in Israeli Culture 1967-1973, Tarbut Demokratit 11: 51-76 [Hebrew and English].

Research Areas

Critical Discourse Analysis, Peace and War discourse

Prof. Ann Saada-Reisch, Director of the Master’s of Medical Laboratory Sciences (MMLSc)  program

Ann Saada (Reisch) was born and grew up in Sweden to parents of Hungarian descent, immigrated to Israel and raised a family of four boys with her husband Joel Saada. She studied BSc in biology, MSc and PhD in microbiology, and post doctorate in neurobiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ann is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Her research focuses on inborn metabolic, mitochondrial diseases and the mitochondrial respiratory chain function on diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.

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Prof. Saada-Reisch in also experienced (25y) in clinical laboratory work. She managed the enzyme and metabolic laboratories at Hadassah Medical Center and directed the enzyme laboratory at Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

For additional info visit: . https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2951-0656

Since 2014 Quality Assurance Head Management at Clalit Health Service Laboratories
2014- 2015 Auditor at the Standard Institutions of Israel
2012- 2013 Accreditation General Manager Deputy at the Israel Laboratory Accreditation Authority (ISRAC)
2006-2012 Quality Assurance Head Management at Hadassah Hospitals ISO 15189 Accreditations Laboratories
2003-2012 Quality Assurance Management at Hadassah Hospitals Blood Banks. 
2002-2012 Managing Hadassah Blood banking Laboratories