Faculty and Staff - Politics and Communication (B.A)

After studies for the first degree in international relations at the Hebrew University, Aviv Shir-On joined the Israeli Foreign Ministry in 1978. In Israel Shir-On held various positions: assistant to the Director General of the ministry, director of the public affairs division, spokesperson of the Israeli delegation to the peace negotiation with Jordan, bureau chief and advisor to minister Beilin at the Ministry for Economy and Planning, spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Deputy Director General for public diplomacy and DDG for European Affairs. Abroad Aviv served at the embassy in Bonn, Germany, as the minister (diplomatic rank) for congressional affairs at the embassy in Washington DC, ambassador in Switzerland, ambassador in Austria and the representative of Israel to the OSCE and the UN agencies in Vienna, ambassador to The Netherlands and as the diplomatic representative to the OPCW and the international courts in The Hague.

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.

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.