1 Segal Kenneth
Professor Segal brings more than 30 years of experience in design and design education. He established the Department of Industrial Design at Hadassah College and led it for over a decade, while also serving as Head of the Leadership Excellence Program. Earlier, he founded and directed the Industrial Design Department at Shenkar School of Engineering and Design, where he developed the BDes program in Industrial Design. As vice president of the Israel Design Community and Head of the Industrial Design sector, he advised the Ministry of Commerce on initiatives to strengthen design within the Israeli economy. He has authored numerous BA and MA programs and supported the growth of design education across the profession.
He serves as a lead designer for the light rail in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Jerusalem and Haifa BRT systems, and as CEO of PublicZone Transportation design studio, one of Israel’s leading studios for innovative public-domain solutions.
Currently an associate professor of design at the School of Design and Innovation at Colman College of Management Studies, he leads the MA program in Design, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.
3 Bitrany Sisso Amit
Amit Bitrany Sisso is a multidisciplinary designer with a B.Des in Interior Design from the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) and an M.A. in Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the School of Design and Innovation at the College of Management Academic Studies, which he completed with distinction. Amit has been part of the school for about four years, serves as its student coordinator, and currently directs the school’s Design Preparatory Program (Mechina 360).
Alongside teaching, Amit is the founder and owner of LMNOP | House of Branding, a branding and creative studio working mainly with food and lifestyle brands. The studio leads branding and design-thinking processes, from visual language development and brand building to storytelling, brand books, marketing strategy, packaging design and distinctive print products.
“Combining my first degree in interior design with my background in visual communication since childhood, I was able to develop a distinctive perspective as a designer: a new kind of multidisciplinary designer who sees the two disciplines as one complementary product that makes the world more beautiful and aesthetic.
2 Igra Libby
Dr. Libby Igra is a clinical psychologist and a senior faculty member in the Clinical Psychology Academic Track at the College of Management Academic Studies. Her research focuses on change processes in psychotherapy, particularly the therapeutic alliance and rupture and repair processes, as well as attachment, metacognition, and emotion regulation from a developmental and dyadic perspective.
Her doctoral research at Bar-Ilan University examined mechanisms of change in metacognition-based therapy for schizophrenia. During her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Copenhagen, she studied factors influencing the therapeutic relationship as part of a large-scale study in mental health services in Denmark.
Clinically, she provides therapy and clinical supervision at the HILA Clinic for Women’s Mental Health across the Reproductive Life Cycle at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. There she works with women coping with emotional difficulties during pregnancy, the transition to motherhood, and after traumatic birth or loss.
2 Sharon-David Hila
Dr. Hila Sharon-David is a researcher and lecturer in sport and exercise psychology, driven by a deep curiosity about how movement can enrich our lives. Her research explores physical activity and mental health, including stress and anxiety reduction, attention and concentration, and women’s body image across life stages. She examines how our surroundings and inner experiences shape motivation and exercise adherence, and how mindful movement can nurture mind–body connection across diverse populations.
Alongside her research, she offers therapeutic consultation through a humanistic approach that brings together movement and emotional dialogue, and supports health promotion in organizations and institutions. A mother of two, she loves turning everyday experiences into research questions and opportunities for growth and meaningful impact.
2 Maymoni Liran
Liran Maymoni earned his PhD in Economics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where his doctoral research used laboratory experiments to study how emotional states shape traders’ expectations and decision making in asset markets. His research spans behavioral economics, regional development, and public policy. His behavioral economics work includes experimental asset markets, public goods games, and tax compliance. In regional development, he studies innovation and peripheral economies. His public policy work evaluates topics such as health reform, prosocial behavior, and the effects of fiscal and labeling measures on consumer behavior.
1 Prof. Bazyler Michael
Michael Bazyler is professor of law and the 1939 Society Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Chapman University in California. He is holder of previous fellowships at Harvard Law School, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, where he held the Oppenheim Chair for the Study of Racism, Antisemitism and the Holocaust. He received his B.A. from UCLA and his JD from USC and is currently completing his PhD at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU) in Germany. He is an award-winning author of seven books and over 50 book chapters and essays on law, antisemitism, the Holocaust, and restitution following mass atrocities. His current research focuses on the restitution of looted artworks, including Nazi-looted art, Armenian Genocide Looted Art (AGLA), and art dispossessed by European colonial powers. He is also co-director of a major educational initiative launched by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) to create the online portal Holocaust, Antisemitism, and the Law Learning (HALL) Center, expected to launch in Fall 2026.
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.