3 Cohen Gal
Gal Cohen is a third-year law student at the College of Management. He chose to study law out of a desire to understand the legal frameworks that shape human life in its various dimensions, with a particular interest in criminal law due to its direct impact on the state and its citizens. He is proud to be part of the activities of the Center for Law and Antisemitism, as a descendant of Holocaust survivors from Tunisia on his father’s side, and of a family that experienced the early stages of antisemitism in Iran on his mother’s side. He hopes the Center’s work will contribute to the struggle against this severe phenomenon.
3 Matlub Yonatan
Yonatan Matlub is a third-year law student at the Haim Striks Faculty of Law, College of Management. He is 27 years old and lives in Mevasseret Zion. During his studies, he has participated in a variety of academic projects, including the Banking Law Clinic and the “Global Commercial Excellence” program, where he researched constitutional issues with former Supreme Court Justice Eliezer Rivlin. These experiences strengthened his desire to contribute to the activities of the Center for Law and Antisemitism and to advance research and engagement on this important subject.
2 Jaffe Ian
Dr. Ian Jaffe is a Senior Volunteer Associate at the Center for Law and Antisemitism at the College of Management, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Genocide Studies at Ariel University. He was born in South Africa, specializes in Holocaust and genocide studies, and is an experienced attorney in Israel. He completed his doctoral thesis at Gratz College in Pennsylvania, focusing on the Sergeants Affair in Mandatory Palestine as an anti-colonial act, examined through the lens of the Holocaust. He recently published a rebuttal to the claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, as well as an additional article analyzing Hamas’s actions on October 7 as a possible case of genocide. His research explores the connections between antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and the law, primarily in the Anglo-Saxon sphere and especially in the United Kingdom. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Jaffe is a labor-law attorney and the founder of a law firm in Ra’anana. For about a decade, he served as a senior lawyer at the “Power to the Workers” labor organization, and he continues to work as an external attorney for the “Workers’ Hotline” (Kav LaOved), specializing in the rights of migrant workers in Israel.
2 Çiçek Hüseyin
Dr. Hüseyin Çiçek is a scholar of law, politics, religion, and antisemitism. He teaches and researches at the University of Vienna, the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, and PH Weingarten in Germany, and is a fellow at CASSIS (University of Bonn) and the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.
His work explores political Islam, authoritarianism, antisemitism, and the role of religion in statehood and foreign policy. He holds a doctorate in political science and a habilitation in religious studies, and has published widely on martyrdom, violence, migration, and the evolution of the Turkish state. His current research focuses on antisemitic digital propaganda in Turkish Muslim contexts after October 7, and on ideological shifts in Islamist movements. At the Center for the Study of Law and Antisemitism, he contributes to research on antisemitic discourse, political identity, and religion in international politics.
2 Helled Alon
Dr. Helled holds a PhD in Political and Social Change and is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Turin. His work focuses on Israeli politics, society, and history, as well as nationalism and international relations, with a special emphasis on Israel–Italy relations. Since 2021, he has also been part of the academic team of the specialization course on Holocaust education at the University of Florence.
His teaching and research are grounded in historical political sociology, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory and Norbert Elias’s figurational analysis to study nationalism, collective memory, and political identity. He is an active member of SISP, ECPR, AIS, and EAIS. His publications include “Unstable Political ‘We’-Feeling in Italy and Israel: A Parable of Decivilization” (Quaderni di Sociologia, 2022) and the monograph Israel’s National Historiography: Between Generations, Identity, and Statehood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). His forthcoming book, Adapting Nations: National Resilience Between Contemporary Statehood and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), co-authored with C. Pala and featuring an introduction by Siniša Malešević, examines how nations shape democratic institutions and legal structures in times of change and crisis.
1 Rona Kaufman
An Associate Professor of Law at Duquesne University. She is a Zionist feminist, a teacher, and a scholar. Professor Kaufman teaches constitutional, employment discrimination, family, and gender law. She is developing a course on antisemitism and law. Her scholarship focuses on women, antisemitism, Jewish history, and law. Her work has appeared in the Florida International University Law Review, the Buffalo Law Review, the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society, and other academic publications.
Professor Kaufman serves on the Brandeis Center for Human Rights’ Center for Legal Innovation Advisory Board and on the Holocaust Claims Conference’s faculty working group for Holocaust education. She serves on the steering committee and is chairing the 2026 Law and Antisemitism Conference. She is also a member of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s Voice of the People global cohort, a think tank focused on solving contemporary challenges facing the Jewish people. She is working on a book that explores Zionism, Israel, and antisemitism from a feminist perspective.
2 Ben-David Sela Tal
Dr. Tal Ben-David Sela is a clinical psychologist and a faculty member in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Tal completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Haifa.
Her research focuses on mechanisms of change in psychotherapy, particularly interpersonal processes that facilitate or hinder therapeutic change. In addition, Tal studies therapeutic processes and the development of psychopathology among women, especially during the reproductive years. During her clinical training, Dr. Ben-David Sela worked in Maccabi Healthcare Services’ Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinic, and she currently works in the adult inpatient department at Geha Mental Health Center. Beyond her clinical work, she is promoting public access to evidence-based psychological knowledge, recognizing its potential to enhance mental well-being.
Within the department, she teaches Abnormal Psychology, Personality Theories, Research Methods, and Academic Reading and Writing, and serves as a faculty member in the M.A. Program in Clinical Psychology. Tal focuses her clinical practice on perinatal psychopathology and parenthood.
2 Shtossel Oshrit
Oshrit Shtossel is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the College of Management Academic Studies (COLMAN) and in the Department of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics with a specialization in Data Science from Bar-Ilan University (Outstanding Track), following her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mathematics and Data Science, both completed with distinction.
Her research focuses on machine learning and computational statistics for analyzing complex biological systems, with an emphasis on the microbiome, survival modeling, and advanced representation methods for high-dimensional data. Her work has been published in leading journals, including; Microbiome, Genome Medicine, IEEE TPAMI, and Gut.
She teaches courses in mathematics, statistics, and machine learning, and supervises final projects in data science.
Research interests: data science, medical data analysis, machine learning, deep learning, and mathematical modeling.
“I believe that data tells a story, and when we analyze it correctly, we can uncover truly complex processes and turn this knowledge into tools that make the world better.”
2 Kugler Yossi
Dr. Yossi Kugler is a historian specializing in antisemitism and the history of Israeli society. He holds a PhD from the School of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University, completed under the supervision of Prof. Dina Porat and Prof. Alexander Yakobson.
For over a decade, he worked at Yad Vashem, where he developed educational programs and conducted research on the Holocaust and antisemitism. His work focuses on Israeli society’s attitudes toward antisemitism, Zionism, and responses to Jew-hatred past and present, and has been published in academic journals in Israel and abroad, including Israel Affairs, Jewish Culture and History, and the Journal of Jewish Identities.
2 Reuven Liad
Dr. Liad Reuven is a lecturer and researcher at the School of Media Studies since 2014. Reuven holds a Bachelor’s degree in Media and Management from the College of Management Academic Studies, a Master’s degree in Communication with a specialization in Internet and New Media from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on social networks, privacy, and information behavior. In his role, Reuven is the Dean of Students at the School of Media Studies and is responsible for the faculty seminar.