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Curriculum Vitae

Full name: Meirav Aharon

Identity No. 025283847

Place of birth: Israel

Address: H'arimonim 12, Rosh Pinna

Telephone: private: 052-8973654

E-mail: meiravag@technion.com

Website: http://maharon.net.technion.ac.il/

ACADEMIC DEGREES

2006 PhD Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University

2001 M. A. Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University Magna cum laude

1998 B.A Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University Magna cum laude

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2013 – Present Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion - Israel

Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

2011 – 2012 Adjunct‏ teaching associate, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

2009 – 2012 Adjunct‏ teaching associate New York University at TA

2009, 2010 Adjunct, Department of Architecture, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

2005, 2010 Adjunct, Department of Sociology, Second degree program, Ben Gurion

University in the Negev

2005, 2007 Israel; M.Urb.Des. (Graduate program in Urban Design)

2008 – 2009 Adjunct, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Hebrew University

of Jerusalem, Israel‏

2007 – 2008 Postdoc, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York.

2005 – 2006 Postdoc, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew

University of Jerusalem, Israel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2011-2012 Planning – Head of the department for strategic planning, Holon

Municipality

2008-2010 Manager – The Center for Mediterranean Culture and Urbanism, Bat Yam.

Establishing urban research institute for Bat Yam Municipality.

Among the institute’s projects: educational model of urbanism and gender and

city.

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PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2009 Research and Planning – Re-planning the center of kibbutz Kfar Hachoresh

(with architects Yuval Yasky and Shmuel Groag)

2011 Research and Planning – Holon Municipality, a master plan for the elderly

population (Together with Do-Et).

2005-12 Consultant, Israel Ministry of Defense - the relocation of the military high-

tech units to the Negev. Investigation of issues concerning organizational

culture and human recourses. My duty is to shape a planning policy of the

technological campus and HR future policy.

ARTISTIC PROJECTS

2001 "Nobody's Slave: The story of Palestinian work immigrants" presented at

Humboldt University conference, "Identities in the Age of Modernity", Berlin

(2002)

2010 "Fine Tuning: A war musical movie" 2010 David Noy (Cinemax

Production) and Meirav Aharon. Sponsored by channel 1 The Israeli TV

($100,000). Presented at RAI Film Festival, Royal Anthropological Institute

London (June 2011).

About the orchestra: this is a unique cultural enterprise of second generation

Moroccan Jews, establish in the city of Ashdod. The logic of the enterprise

was to revitalize the Andalusian music as a high culture due to the state

criteria and conventions.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Urban sociology

Ethnicity and multiculturalism critic

Social mobility

Ethnography in cities

Cities of immigration

Crime and terror

Cities and religious

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses taught (last 3 years)

2014 – Social Planning– Graduate elective course, 25 students.

2014 – Dangerous cities, safe cities – Graduate elective course, 35 students.

2012 – Sociology for planners – Graduate Mandatory course, 30 students.

2003 – Urban Sociology for Architects 85-100 students

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DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES

Since 2012 Member of the graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning committee

2015 Member of the Hadrion organizing committee

PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Reviewing of grants

Since 2012 Grant review for ISF

Occasional Reviewer for Journals

Journal of Economic and social Geography

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Israeli sociology

Urban Design International

Mobilities

Megamot

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

2009 – Israel Planners Association

2013 – Israeli Sociological Association

2015 - Scientific Study of Religion

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS

2014-2015 Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Teaching Award

2013-2014 Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Teaching Award

2007-2008 Fulbright award: Post-doc Fellowship

2005 Marie-Curie prize by the European Research Forum on Migration

and Ethnic Relations (EUROFOR).Excellence award for young researchers to

present their work at series of conference that bring together academia and

policy makers

2005 Women's Group Fellowships of the Mexican Friends of the Hebrew

University of Jerusalem: Post-doc scholarship.

2005 Horvitz Foundation: Scholarship for outstanding Ph.D. Research in the Fields

of Economy and Society. Founded in 1971 in honor of David Horowitz, former

Governor of the Bank of Israel, and architect of Israel`s plan for financial

assistance to developing nations, this institute encourages research on issues

relating to social and economic development.

2004 The social science Dean Award: Scholarship for Outstanding PhD Students.

Tel Aviv University

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2004 Jonathan Shapiro Fund: Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate student (PhD)

2003 Fulbright Award: PhD Student Grant. Supporting PhD students at Israeli

university travelling to the state for professional meetings.

2003 Sapir foundation: Awarding excellence grants at the field of local government

2002 The Israeli Sociological Society’s Award for outstanding graduate student

thesis, presented at the Israeli Sociological Society’s Annual Conference.

2001 Heinrich Boell Fund: Scholarship for outstanding graduate student.

The Heinrich Boell Sifting has been funding projects in Israel since 1992.

Funded by the German government. The Heinrich Boell Sifting is an

intellectually open, civic organization The work in Israel takes place in the

complex and multidimensional context of German-Jewish relations, German-

Israeli relations and the Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab conflict.

2001 Jonathan Shapiro Fund: Scholarship for outstanding graduate student (M.A),

The department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University

Jonathan Shapiro was the founder of the sociology department in Tel Aviv.

2000 Tami Steinmatz Research Institute for Peace Studies: Scholarship for

outstanding graduate student. The purpose of the Center, established in 1992, is

to promote systematic research and thinking on issues connected with

peacemaking processes and conflict resolution.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Completed Theses

M.Sc. Theses

Shani Noga, year of graduation 2015. "Holy cities: between centrality and peripherally."

Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon, Dr. Yusuf Jabareen as Co. Supervisor. Received the

2015 Israel Planners Association prize for excellent and the faculty of Architecture and

town planning for outstanding students. Work at Domus as an Urban Planner

Thesis in Progress

M.Sc. Theses

Prawer Noa, starting year 2014"You want to maximize your financial gain. What about mine?":

Analysis of National Outline Plan No. 38 as a Planning Deal and its impact on the Organizing of

Homeowners. Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon, Associate Professor Pnina Plaut as Co.

Supervisor. Expected year of graduation 2016. Project Manager at Ezra and Bitzaron

Penn Nadav, starting year 2014 . "Regional capital conversion through High-Tech: Intel-Israel

case study." Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon. Expected year of graduation 2016.

Shahar Yoad, starting year 2014 . "The impact of ultra-orthodox institutions on the tipping point

of Jerusalem's changing neighborhoods." Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon. Expected

year of graduation 2016.

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Feldman Miriam, starting year 2014 . "Urban Space and Jewish Law: The Social and Spatial

Manifestation of the Sukkah in Orthodox Neighborhoods in Israel." Principle Supervisor: Dr.

Meirav Aharon, Dr. Els Verbakel as Co. Supervisor. Expected year of graduation 2016.

Lazimi Yamit, starting year 2014 . "New towns: Backwaters or enabling spaces? Nazareth Illit

as a case study." Principle supervision Associate Professor Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Dr. Meirav

Aharon as Co. Supervisor. Expected year of graduation 2016.

PhD theses

Sharon Ayalon, starting year 2015 "Urbanity at the intersection of urban space, publicness and

art : Acre as a case study", pre candidacy exam. Principle Supervisor Associate Professor Tali

Alon, Dr. Meirav Aharon as Co. Supervisor.

Post-doctoral fellows supervised

Dr. Moriel Ram, starting year 2015, Ben Gurion University. General areas of research: Political

geography, religion and urban studies.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Sponsored

2016 Urbanism at the meeting point between Theatre, Public and Space: the city of

Acre as case study. (Sharon Yabo-Ayalon. Tali alon Mozes and Meirav Aharon

Gutman) 55,000 ₪

2015 "How the army as regional development engine, design the housing market in a

development town in Israel: the case of Ir habahadim and Yerucham in 3D."

Principal Investigator 41,000 NIS for 1 year. Funded by Gazit-Glob real-Estate

institution.

2014 "The Challenge of Capital Conversion: How and under what conditions can

groups and settlements acquire and trade capital for the enhancement of regional

development". Principal Investigator (in the research team: Prof. Yehuda Kalay,

Dr. Menny Malka and Arch. Yuval Yasky). 163,000 NIS for 3 years, Funded by

Ministry of Science Technology and Space

2010-2012

Mediterranean Urbanism, Bottom-up Research, research group leader at the

Van Leer Institute, NIS 100,000.

A multidisciplinary, bottom up exploration of current issues in urbanism in Israel

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in an effort to establish an Israeli school of urbanism that expresses the

complexity of the urban situation in the middle east.

2010-2014 DESURBS - Designing Safer Urban Spaces".

Research team member (leader of the social investigation WP1). Prof. Mike

turner, Department of Architecture Bezalel Academy of Art and Design,

Jerusalem as Principal Investigator. € 460,000 EU funded research project

under the Seventh Framework Program.

Planning, (re)design, and (re)engineering of urban areas to make them less

vulnerable and more resilient to security threats.

2009 Border Street - Anna Lindh Foundation, EU Restore Trust, Rebuild

Bridges € 35,000.

A study of a mixed urban environment in the heart of a metropolis - case study of

the border street between Bat Yam and Jaffa that embodies an ethnic conflict

between Jews and Arabs in light of intensive development.

PUBLICATIONS

Theses

M.A. Thesis

"Work, land: The story of the Palestinian work migrant in Israel. Master’s Thesis, Department of

Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University (2002). Supervisor‏:Haim Hazan and Adriana

Kemp

PhD Thesis

"Planning and Living in the Modern National City: the limits and limitations of Israeli

citizenship in 2000" . Doctoral Thesis, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Tel Aviv

University (2006). Supervisor: Haim Hazan, John Comaroff and Ronen Shamir

Refereed papers in professional journals (Graduate student are marked in italic)

1. Aharon-Gutman, M. "Border people: the story of Palestinian work migrant at the Age of

Oslo." Israeli Sociology 6(2): 119-149, 2004 (Hebrew with an English abstract)

2. Aharon-Gutman, M. "Triumph of the system: on De-mocratiziation in planned migrant city."

Israeli Sociology 9(2): 413-441, 2008 (Hebrew with an English abstract).

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3. Aharon-Gutman, M. "It will be quiet enough when we’re dead – now is the time to live:

Between planning the modern city and living in it." Planning Theory and Practice 10(2): 213-

231, 2009.

4. Aharon-Gutman, M. The day the sun rises in the west – ethnography of a peace process."

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 22(1): 131-150, 2009.

5. Aharon, M. "The iron cage of ethnicity." Israeli Sociology 12(1): 181-210, 2010 (Hebrew with

an English abstract).

6. Aharon-Gutman, M. "Classic, Mizrachi Orchestra." Theory and Criticism 33: 131-150, 2008

(Hebrew with an English abstract)

7. Aharon, M. "Just like democracy: ethnography of real-politic in a city of immigrants."

Journal of Levantine Studies 2(1): 71-91, 2012.

8. Aharon, M. "Riding the Culture Train: ethnography of a plan for social mobility through

music." Cultural Sociology, 7(4): 447-462, 2013.

9. Aharon-Gutman, M. "The iron cage of ethnicity: Ethnic urban enclaves and the challenge

of urban design." Urban Design International, 19(2): 144-158,(2014) ‏.

10. Cohen, N., & Aharon-Gutman, M. "Citizenship at work in the Israeli periphery: the case

of Peri Ha’Galil." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(4): 589-605,

(2014).

11. Shani N. and Aharon- Gutman, M. "Holy city: between workplace and work of the

place." Israeli Sociology 17(1) : 57-78, 2015 (Hebrew with an English abstract)

12. Cohen, N., & Aharon-Gutman, M. Labor agencies and the temporality of struggles: A

comparative study in the Israeli periphery. Geoforum, 74, 98-107 (2016)

13. Aharon-Gutman, M. "There is no room for politic in our neighborhood: between the

social and the political in a seam line neighborhood in Jerusalem." Accepted for

publication in Theory and criticism (Hebrew with an English abstract)

14. Aharon-Gutman, M. and Gutman R. "Will our voices be heard? An inside view of an

environmental public struggle at the Israeli Northern Periphery

Israeli Sociology (accepted. Hebrew with an English abstract)

15. Shani N and Aharon-Gutman, M. “‘Living in a Holy City is Work’: God’s Work as the

Work of Urban Place” Space and Culture (accepted)

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Submitted papers

16. Aharon-Gutman, M. and Cohen N. "A fishing rod is useless if they can’t get to the sea:

Work and young (im)mobilities in the Israeli periphery." Submitted to Journal of Social

& Cultural Geographies, 2015 (second version submitted)

17. Ram M. and Aharon-Gutman, M. "Sanctified strongholds: urban synagogues and the

politics of change in contested urban environments." Submitted to Journal of Economic

and social Geography 2015 (under corrections)

18. Aharon-Gutman, M. "Border disorder: on urban boundary work and crime in divided

city" British Journal of Sociology (revised and resubmit)

19. Aharon-Gutman, M. "Do art, not politics": Hanna Arendt in Jerusalem. Urban Studies

(under review)

20. Aharon-Gutman, M. "Real-Urbanism: New conceptual analysis for critical planning

theory." International Planning Studies, (submitted)

Refereed book chapters

1. Aharon-Gutman, M (2008) “Social photography as War photography”: New ways to learn the

world of poor people. Back Yards, Bezalel Academy of Arts Book publication (in Hebrew)

2. Aharon-Gutman, M (2009) “We Pay our Taxes and Serve in the Army”

Toward a Critique of Multiculturalism in Israel". In: Avi Sagie and Ohad Nachtomy (eds)

The Multicultural Challenge in Israel. Boston, M.A: Academic Studies Press.

Other publications (Published in Israel)

1. Aharon-Gutman, M. (2006). The Oriental's point of view. In: Abutbul, Motzafi-Haller,

Grinberg (eds). Mizrachi's voices: a New Discourse on Society and Culture in Israel.

Masada Press. (Hebrew).

2. Aharon M. (2011) “The Israeli City as Sociological Phenomena” In: Yagil Levy and Sarig Ety

(eds) Local Authority in Israel, Open University Press. Invited chapter (in Hebrew)

3. Aharon, M. . The trees will grow, the children will grow. In Tal Alon Musas and Nurit

Lisvosky (eds.) Gidon Sarig Landscape Architect (Forthcoming)

4. Cohen, N., & Aharon-Gutman, M. Private property, Social responsibility: Peri Ha’Galil

as a Case Study in Corporate social responsibility and the City Avirama Golan and Liad

Ortar (eds) Resling Publication (Forthcoming) (in Hebrew)

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5. Aharon-Gutman, M. "Quality of life” and “Life” in the Modernist Plan City." Planning

Journal of the Association for Environment Planning in Israel 2(1): 55-74. (2005) (Hebrew).

6. Aharon- Gutman M. "Please welcome the Andalusian orchestra": toward a criticism of

multiculturalism approach in Israel Alpaim 33:72-102 (2008) (Hebrew).

7. Aharon, M. (co-editor with Gal Levy) NYU/TLV Narratives, Situations, Places. Journal

of New York University in Tel Aviv. 1. August 2010 (in Hebrew).

8. Aharon-Gutman, M. Urban Sociology. PANIM Journal (Rosenthal Rubik and

Aharonovitch Kiki eds.) (2013)

9. Aharon, M., Eizenburg, E., and Israel, A.I. Instead of annexing Bat Yam, split up Tel

Aviv. Calcalist online. July 13, 2014. http://www.calcalist.co.il/local/articles/0,7340,L-

3635828,00.html

10. Critical perspective on "The good city" interview to Shotef+60 website June 2015

http://future-space.wix.com/shotefplus

11. Prawer Noa, Aharon-Gutman Meirav, Plaut Pnina "How to implement Tama 38 (National

outline plan 38)? Lets start with the residents" Calcalist online May 12 2015

http://m.ynet.co.il/Articles/4656367

12. Aharon-Gutman, M. and Cohen N. "Work of Citizenship: The case of Vita Peri Ha’Galil"

Planning Journal of the Association of planners in Israel 12(1) 210-223 2015. ‏

13. Amsterdansky Shaul "social Gaps, the third dimension version" Feb 6 2016 Calcalist

http://www.calcalist.co.il/local/articles/0,7340,L-3680112,00.html

14. Noibach Keren "Rethinking Terror in Jerusalem" September 14 2015 Seder yom

15. Bocker Almog "Tel Aviv State" Dec 10 2015 Chanel 10

http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1162556

16. Amit Avi "What influence the Army camps have on the Israeli Periphery?" March 12

2016 Chanel 10

http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1180113

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CONFERENCES

Presentations (giving papers)

Abroad

2015 Sep "We thought they would do art, not politics" Hannah Arendt (in a seam line

neighborhood) in Jerusalem the 9th Pan-European Conference on

International Relations, 23-26 September 2015, Giardini Naxos, Sicily.

2015 July “The Question of Public Space: From Ideology to Real-Urbanism” (ID 134)

AESOP 2015 Annual Congress ‏13-16‏ July, Prague

2014 July 1. “Real in their consequences: on Thomas Theorem, violence and

border building in Jerusalem”.

2. “Can the subaltern plan? From Objected Possibility to Objective

Possibility”.

9-12 July, AESOP Utrecht-Delft

2013 November "From Objected Possibility to Objective Possibility: Toward a Re--thinking of

Urbanity in Med Cities". AESOP (Association of European Schools of

Planning) 20-23 Nov. Public Spaces and Urban Cultures Thematic Group

Conference. Istanbul, Turkey

2011 June “Fine Turning: Musical war movie” movie and a lecture. Royal

International festival of ethnographic films. 23-26 June, London, UCL

2010 November “The cross-cultural city: urban context and cultural diversity”. 11-12 Nov.

Van Leer Institute, The Mediterranean city: Master class.

2008 "Who Will Subsidize Our Emotional World?" Toward a Critique of

Multiculturalism”. April 29, Fourth Annual Inter-Ivy Sociology Symposium

(IISS), Princeton University

2008 May "Ethnic Classical Orchestra From 'Appropriate Culture' to Cultural

Appropriation". Annual Association for Israel Studies Conference (AIS)

New York City

2008 May "Reclaiming Ethnic Identity: Ethnography of a plan for social mobility".

Middle East and North Africa Workshop, Columbia University (MENA)

2008 “Reclaiming Ethnic Identity: Ethnography of a plan for social mobility”.

Workshop on North Africa and the North African Diaspora, April 2,

Princeton University.

2007 November “And how much will you give to multi-culturalism?”: Toward a critique of

neo-liberal multi-culturalism. 1-3 Nov. American Anthropological

Association (AAA). Washington, DC.

2006 December "Triumph of the System: on De-mocratization in planed migrant city".

Second talk: "Can we talk about multiculturalism in Israel?"

11-12 Dec. From Urban Heterogeneity to Multiculturalism: Envisioning the

City in the Global Era. Ashdod, Israel. Chairperson: "Urban Politics in

Highly Planned Immigrants' City".

2006 November "Separately together: Action of commemoration “from below” as critically

assessing the concept of multiculturalism". 15-19 Nov. American

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Anthropological Association (AAA) "Critical Intersection/ Dangerous

Issues". San Jose, California.

2005 May "Berlin: From divided into fragmented city". Globalization, Unification and

European Cities International workshop, Ben Gurion University, Discussant

2005 March “Planning and living in the modern National City”

31 March-3 April. Forum on Migration and Ethnic Relations (EUROFOR)

Multi-Level Governance of Immigration Flows, Athens, Greece

2004 June “"Separately Together": living the modern national city”. Association for

Israeli Studies (AIS), Annual Conference. Jerusalem, Israel

2001 May “Work, Land: The Story of Palestinian Work Immigrants in the Age of

Oslo”. Association for Israeli Studies (AIS), Annual Conference,

Washington D.C.

2001 April “Border People: the story of the Palestinian work immigrants in the age of

Oslo". Humboldt University conference, "Identities in the Age of

Modernity", Berlin.

In Israel

2000 “Mizrahi Identity in the Public Discourse”. In Mizrachi perspectives Van

Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.

2000 “Breaking Rules: The way things work”. The Israeli Sociological Society’s

annual conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.

2001 “Work, Land: The Story of Palestinian Work Immigrants at the Age of

Oslo”. The Israeli anthropological Society’s annual conference, Tel Aviv,

Israel.

2001 Presented visual text “Nobody's Slave”. Tami Steinmetz Research Institute

for Peace Studies, Annual Conference, Jerusalem, Israel.

2001 “Work, Land – The Story of Palestinian Work Migrant at the Age of Oslo”.

The Israeli Anthropological Society’s annual conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.

2002 “Border People: the story of the Palestinian work immigrants in the age of

Oslo". The Israeli Sociological Society’s annual conference, Haifa, Israel.

2003 “Between cooperation and resistance: Palestinian migrant workers in the

Age of Oslo". The Israeli Sociological Society’s annual conference, Beit

Berl, Israel.

2003 “From national modern city to the‏Mediterranean‏city?”

Curator‏Of Photo Exhibition: “In and between the lines”.

The Israeli Anthropological Association, annual conference, Neve Ilan,

Israel. “Practices of Resistance”.

2004 "Municipal colonialism: Ethnography in the Likud branch – Ashdod".

The Israeli Sociological Society’s annual conference. Critical perspective on

the notion of periphery

2004 "Nationalism and Ethnicity in the National modern City". Geography

Annual conference, Haifa.

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2005 Life Today in the "City of Tomorrow".

The Israeli Anthropological Association, Annual conference,‏Nazareth.

2006 “Oriental, classic orchestra".

Israeli Anthropological Association, annual conference, Ashdod. "Israeli

Place: between planed authenticity and authentic plans".

2012 “What we will do if we won’t work here?: on work crisis in company town”

(together with Dr. Nir Cohen).

Israeli Association of Planners Annual conference, Haifa,

2013 "Med-Cities: Re-Thinking urbanity". Israeli Association of Planners Annual

conference, Tel Aviv

2014 "Citizenship at work: the struggle for work at "Vita Pri H'agalil" (together

with Nir Cohen). Israeli sociological Association - Between Work and

Family, Tel Aviv University.

2015 The Israeli Planners' Conference (19-20 February Beer Sheva) "A fishing

rod is useless if they can’t get to the sea: Work and young (im)mobilities in

the Israeli periphery"

SERVICE

Service to profession

2015 May Lecturer: the Negev from state's sandbox to the Metropolin of the South. 28

May)

2014 June Lecturer: “Between conservation and change”. The Mandel Institute of

Leadership Development, Jerusalem.

2014 June Lecturer: “What is a neighborhood?” Museum of Netanya

2014 March "The challenge of planning the Kibbutz public space". Directors of the

Kibbutz Movement

2013 November "Re-planning the Kibbutz Center". Heterogenic Managers Group.

2013 November “Space-society relations”. Regional Council Galil Elyon

Service to Society

2016 " It's take a village to raise a child": on education and urban sociology Rashi

Foundation (29 June)

2015 Lecturer: 12 mint. Haztor, Zefat, Rosh Pinna "Invitation to meet Urban

Sociology" (1 June)

2014 Moderator of a group for achievable housing in Haztor H'aglilit

2003-2007 Founder and Board Member, "Agada": Science and Arts Community Center

for mothers and children's.

2001-2002 Director, “Summer University for Teenagers”, Tel Aviv University.

Promoting academic education for youth from peripheral regions.

1996-1998 Coordinator, “Perach Project”, Tel Aviv, Israel. Mentoring children from

disadvantaged families.

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1997-1998 Volunteer, “The Society for Fighting Cancer” annual fund raising

campaign.

1995-1998 Instructor, “Israel Yafa” Learning Center. Urban and environmental ecology

course.

1995-1996 Tutor of Biology, “Perach Project” Tel Aviv, Israel. Tutoring children from

disadvantaged families.

Service to the faculty and the academic community

2015 Music Show (Organizer): David Peretz on culture and Periphery (1 June)

2015 Symposium (Organizer): Prof. Tamar El Or on Material Culture (18 March)

2014 Workshop (Organizer): Hila Koren on Collective Intelligence (29 Dec)

2014 Writing Workshop (Organizer) for Phd students with Dr. Yofi Tirosh

2014 Symposium (Organizer): Can we plan longing? (2 March)

Invited Lectures in Universities in Israel

2015 February The yearly conference of the Sociological Association of

Israel

2014 “Sociological analysis of the price of living in Israel.”

Technion Science Day

2014 November "Separation and integration in the social-economic context."

The Interdisciplinary Herzliya: Seminar: Separation,

integration and prejudice in Israel in a series of lectures "Who

is afraid of liberalism?" Herzliya.

2014 June "Med Cities: toward a new theory on urbanism". Department

of Geography, Bar Ilan University

2014 March "People between the "Hi-Tech" and the "Military"”.

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew

University

2014 May "Citizenship at work: the struggle for work at "Vita Pri

H'agalil". (Together with Nir Cohen), Faculty of Law, Tel

Aviv University

2014 April "Med Cities: toward a new theory on urbanism". Department

of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar Ilan University

2014 April "Whose these land belong to?" Golan Research Institution,

Hispin

2014 March "Fine Tuning: A musical war movie". Department of Law,

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Bar Ilan University

2013 December "Med Cities: toward a new theory on urbanism". Departmant

of Architecture, Bezalel Academy for Art and Design.

2004 "Separately Together": living the modern national city”.

Interdisciplinary perception on cities in Israel. Bezalel

Academy of Art and Design, Department of Architecture.

2004 "Planning and living the modern national city". The

institution for studding Zionism, Tel Aviv University, Annual

conference.