The Young Scholars Forum was launched in 2004 with the aim of bringing together outstanding young scholars in Israel. In addition to serving as a platform for discussion and thought, the forum is designed to promote collaborative intellectual and research activity among researchers from different institutions and from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Each year, a group of young scholars from academic institutions in Israel is selected for the forum. Eligibility begins at the post-doctoral stage and ends 12 years after the scholar’s completion of her/his doctorate. A committee composed of members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities selects the group from among candidates submitted by Academy members and by rectors and deans of institutions of higher education. The criterion for selection is extraordinary distinction in research and original thinking. The group is active for one to two years.
A member of the Academy heads each group and guides its discussion of a broad topic chosen for the group, which includes young scholars from a range of fields related to the topic. The group’s activity includes meetings, workshops and lectures, delivered by members of the group and occasionally by guest lecturers, who may or may not be Academy members. The group leader and participants may also decide to discuss the state of research in Israel and tools available to researchers at institutions of higher education.
During the initial years of the Young Scholars Forum, multidisciplinary groups were selected to examine the main topic from different disciplinary angles. In recent years, the selection of participants has focused on the group leader’s general field of study. Over the years, the forum’s participants have included jurists and economists, along with historians, philosophers, and scholars of Judaism, architecture, theater, Egyptology, Indian studies, Armenian studies and more.
The activity of the Young Scholars Forum is reflected in the publication by the Academy’s Publications Department of articles by group members, in international conferences, and more.
Every year for the past twenty years, the Humanities Division of the Israel Academy has convened a Young Scholars Forum. The participants are outstanding young postdoctoral scholars selected by a committee appointed by the Division on the basis of criteria of extraordinary distinction in research and original thinking.
The topic chosen for the monthly meetings of the 2023-2024 cycle, headed by Prof. Yoav Benjamini of Tel Aviv University, is "The Influence of Generative Artificial Intelligence upon Research in the Social Sciences." The participants, drawn from a broad range of social science fields and from the fields of statistics and computer science, will discuss the possibilities opened up by Generative Artificial Intelligence (such as ChatGPT or BARD) for speeding up familiar research processes and for developing entirely new research tools in the social sciences. The Forum will also consider potential negative influences of the speeding up of research processes and of the new research tools upon the transparency and replicability of research findings and ways of coping with these possible influences.
Members of the 2024 Young Scholars Forum:
Dr. Shani Alkoby, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ariel University
Dr. Amos Azaria, School of Computer Science, Ariel University
Dr. Asaf Gayer, Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Ariel University
Dr. Tali Gazit, Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Ella Glikson, School of Business Administration, Bar-Ilan University
Prof. Yoav Goldberg, Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Ariel Goldstein, Business School Data-Science Department and Cognition Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Uri Y. Hacohen, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Ido Hartogsohn, Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society, Interdisciplinary Studies Unit, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Tamar Megiddo, Department of International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Noa Mor, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Pninit Russo-Netzer, The Faculty of Education and Leadership, and the Psychology Department, Achva Academic College
Dr. Shai Satran, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Gabriel Stanovsky, School of Computer Science & Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Allon Vishkin, Data and Decision Sciences, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Dr. Uri Zak, Business School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Academy’s Young Scholars’ Forum will convene for its nineteenth cycle in the 2022–2023 academic year under the leadership of Academy Member
Prof. Aharon Maman of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Languages at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This year the Forum’s discussions will focus on the theme of linguistics, philology and textuality.
Members of the 2022–2023 Young Scholars’ Forum:
Dr. Barak Avirbach, Department of Hebrew Language, and Department of Foreign Language Education: Hebrew as a Second Language, Oranim College Academic College of Education
Dr. Tirza Biron, Weizmann Institute of Science
Dr. Miri Cohen-Achdut, Department of Hebrew Language, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; David Yellin Academic College of Education
Dr. Rachel Frish, Yale Divinity School, Yale University; Department of Biblical Studies, Hemdat Hadarom Academic College of Education
Dr. Ariel Gabbay, Department of Hebrew Language, Orot Israel College of Education
Dr. David Guedj, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Orit Malka, Faculty of Law & Department of Talmud, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Natalia Meir, Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Mor Mitrani, Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Iyas Nasser, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Guy Ron-Gilboa, Department of Arabic, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, Department of Jewish Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Noam Siegelman, Department of Psychology & Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Barak Sober, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Digital Humanities program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Jonathan Vardi, Department of Hebrew Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Yehonatan Wormser, Department of Hebrew Language, Efrata College of Education
The Young Scholars’ Forum will convene for its eighteenth cycle in the 2021–2022 academic year, headed by Academy Member
Prof. Dan Miron of the Department of Hebrew Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This year the Forum’s discussions will focus on the question: “Is There a Modern Jewish Literary Canon?”
Members of the 2021–2022 Young Scholars’ Forum:
Dr. Omri Asscher, Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Omri Ben Yehuda, Forum-transregionale-Studien/Fellow
Dr. Avital Davidovich-Eshed, Jewish Philosophy and Talmud Department;
Women and Gender Studies Program, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Hadar Feldman Samet, Mandel Scholion Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Roy Greenwald, Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Danny Luzon, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Haifa
Dr. Naama Maor, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Lilah Nethanel, Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Shira Stav, Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Prof. Giddon Ticotsky , Department of Hebrew Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Young Scholars’ Forum will convene for its seventeenth cycle in the 2020–2021 academic year, headed by Academy Member
Prof. Israel Bartal of the Department of Jewish History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The topic for this year’s discussions is “Racism, Antisemitism, Genocide: The Holocaust in Its Historical, Ideological and Cultural Contexts.”
Members of the 2020–2021 Young Scholars’ Forum:
Dr. Samuel Barnai, European Forum at the Hebrew University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Noah Benninga, The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Ziv Bohrer, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Yehudit Dori Deston, The Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Department of Communication and Journalism, European Forum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Julia Elad-Strenger, Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Yifat Gutman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Boaz Hameiri, The Evens Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation, The School of Social and Policy Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Isaac Hershkowitz, Department of Jewish Thought, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Renana Keydar, Faculty of Law and Digital Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Svetlana Natkovich, Department of Jewish History, Haifa University
Dr. Nurit Novis-Deutsch, Department of the Learning and Instruction and Teacher Education, Haifa University
Prof. Amit Shrira, Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Amir Teicher, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Noam Tirosh, Department of Communication Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Young Scholars’ Forum will convene for its sixteenth cycle in the 2019–2020 academic year, headed by Academy Member
Prof. Yoel Rak of the Department of Anatomy and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine. The topic for this year’s discussions is “The Nature of Proof in the Humanities.”
Members of the 2019–2020 Young Scholars’ Forum:
Dr. Adi, Eliyahu-Behar, Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology and the Department of Chemical Sciences, Ariel University
Dr. Shai, Gordin , Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern History, Israel Heritage Department and the Institute of Archaeology, Ariel University
Dr. Gilly, Hartal, The Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Moshe, Kahan , Department of Hebrew Language, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Einat, Levy-Gigi, School of Education and Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Ofer, Malcai, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Orit, Malka, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Omer, Michaelis, Mandel Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Jewish Studies, Mandel Scholion Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Lee, Mordechai, Department of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Orit, Ouaknine-Yekutieli, Department of Middle East studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Or, Rabinowitz, International Relations Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Eshbal, Ratzon, Department of Jewish Heritage, Ariel University
Dr. Dvir, Raviv, Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Judith, Somekh, Department of Information Systems, Haifa University
Dr. Rafi, Tsirkin-Sadan, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The Open University
Dr. Asaf, Yedidya, Department of Jewish History in the Modern Period, Ariel University
The Young Scholars’ Forum convened for its fifteenth cycle in the 2018-2019 academic year, headed by the late Academy Member
Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum of the Hebrew University's Department of Geography. The topic selected for the year’s group discussion was “Fragility: Collapses in History – Society, Economy, Climate Change.”
The forum’s participants are fourteen outstanding researchers from the fields of Archaeology, Economics, Literature (Hebrew and English), Gender Studies, General Humanities, History, Middle Eastern Studies, Politics, Science, Technology and Society, Social Work and Sociology/Anthropology.
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2018-2019:
Dr. Yael Ben-Zvi Morad, Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion Universuty of the Negev
Dr. Yitzchak Jaffe , Department of Archaeology, Haifa University
Dr. Alex Kerner, School of History, Haifa University
Dr. Kinneret Lahad, NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Michal Mahat-Shamir, Department of Social Work, Ariel University
Dr. Iris Nachum, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew Unuversity of Jerusalem
Dr. Jennifer Oser, Department of Politics and Government , Ben-Gurion Universuty of the Negev
Dr. Yosefa Raz, Department of English Languge & Literature, Haifa University
Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew Unuversity of Jerusalem
Dr. Assaf Sarid, Department of Economics, Haifa University
Dr. Michael Shenkar, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew Unuversity of Jerusalem
Dr. Yannay Spitzer, Department of Economics, The Hebrew Unuversity of Jerusalem
Dr. Guy Stiebel, Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Noam Yuran, Science, Technology and Society Program, Bar Ilan University
The Young Scholars’ Forum will convene for its fourteenth cycle in the 2017-2018 academic year, headed by Academy Member
Prof. Billie Melman of Tel Aviv University’s School of Historical Studies. The topic selected for this year’s group discussion is “Empires: Colonialism, Culture and Power in the Modern Era – From the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century.”
The forum’s participants are thirteen outstanding researchers from the fields of history (European, Middle Eastern and African, Latin American and Jewish), Chinese studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and law.
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2017-2018:
Dr. Wael Abu-ʿUksa, Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Dr. Menashe Anzi, Department of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Dotan Arad, The department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Bashir Bashir, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel
Dr. Yuval Ben-Bassat, Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa
Dr. Yael Berda, department of sociology and anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Academy Scholar Harvard Academy for international and regional studies
Dr. Rotem Geva, Department of Asian Studies and History Department, The Hebrew university of Jerusalem
Dr. Itamar Mann, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa
Dr. Oded Rabinovitch, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Ori Sela, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Atalia Shragai, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Lior B Sternfeld, Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Young Scholars Forum in 2016-2017 was led by Academy Member
Prof. Yoram Bilu of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a scholar in the field of psychological anthropology. This group, the 13th cohort, studied the phenomenon of possession – when an external entity takes over a person’s body, temporarily displacing the person’s regular identity. This phenomenon stirs interest in many fields of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences, challenging the conventional distinctions between body and soul, self and others, and reality and imagination. It raises fascinating questions concerning consciousness, identity, memory and gender.
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2016-2017:
Dr. Yaniv Fox, Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Uri Gabbay, Department of Archeology and the Ancient Near East, Hebrew University
Dr. Sagi Ginossar, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University
Dr. Yehuda Halper, Department of Jewish Thought, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Or Hasson, Mandel Scholion - Interdisciplinary research center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Adam Klin-Oron, Van Leer Institute
Dr. Lital Lieberman-Avital, Department of Jewish Thought, Division of Folklore Studies, Ben-Gurion University
Dr. Yair Lipshitz, Department of Theater Arts, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Arie (Arik) Moran, Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa
Dr. Michal Pagis, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Gadi Sagiv, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, Open University
Dr. Ido Shahar, Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa
Dr. Matan Shapiro, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University
Dr. Liora Tsarfati, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Zohar Weiman-Kelman, Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University
The 12th cohort of the Young Scholars Forum (2014-2016) was led by Academy Member
Prof. Ruth Berman of the Linguistics Department at Tel Aviv University. The group discussed “Functionalist Linguistics, Linguistic Typology and Language Acquisition.” The members of the group examined linguistic changes in the areas of phonology, morphology, semantics, composition and discourse.
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2014-2016:
Dr. Carmit Altman, School of Education, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Inbal Arnon, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Dalit Assouline, Department of Hebrew Language, Haifa University
Dr. Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Linguistics Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Nora Boneh, Linguistics Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Evan-Gary Cohen, Linguistics Department, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Roey J. Gafter, Linguistics Department, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Eitan Grossman, Linguistics Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Judy Kupersmitt, Communication Disorders, Hadassah Academic College and Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education
Dr. Lior Laks, Department of English, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Nurit Melnik, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The Open University
Dr. Aya Meltzer, Linguistics Department and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Uri Mor, Department of Hebrew Language, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Bracha Nir, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Haifa University
Dr. Eliezer Papo, The Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Orna Peleg, Language and Cognition Lab Department, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Reut Tsarfaty, Mathematics and Computer Science Department, The Open University
The eleventh group of the Young Scholars Forum, established in 2013, was led by Academy Member
Prof. Guy G. Stroumsa of the Hebrew University’s Department of Religious Studies. The topic was “The Abrahamic Religions in Research and Teaching at Universities in Israel.” The group examined aspects of religion and politics in the Abrahamic religions, now and in the past.
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2013-2014:
Dr. Domenico Agostin, Iran Studies, The Polonsky Academy
Dr. Michal Bar-Asher, Siegal Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. On Barak, Department of Middle Eastern History, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Marcy Brink-Danan, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Michael Ebstein, Department of Islamic Studies, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows
Dr. Yair Furstenberg, Department of Jewish History Ben-Gurion, University of the Negev
Dr. Maoz Kahana, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Nissim Leon, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Katelyn Mesler, Religious Studies, Skolin Institute
Dr. Barbara U. Meyer, Religious Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Arik Moran, Department of Asian Studies, Haifa University
Dr. Ophir Münz-Manor, Department of History philosophy and Jewish Studies, The Open University
Dr. Ronit Ricci, Department of East Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Shalom Sadik, Department of Middle Age philosophy, The Polonsky Academy
Dr. Gadi Sagiv, Department of Jewish Thought, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows
Dr. Arin Salamah-Qudsi, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Haifa University
Dr. Nili Samet, Department of Bible, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Tommaso Tesei, Department of Islam, The Polonsky Academy
Dr. Joseph Vitzum, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Academy Member
Prof. Ben-Ami Shillony of the Hebrew University’s Department of Asian Studies led the tenth group of the Young Scholars Forum, formed in 2012. The group discussed various aspects of “East–West Relations in Modern History,” in the broad sense, including mutual images, influences, fears, clashes, integration and historical phenomena in Asia and in the Western world. The group concluded its meetings with a conference entitled “East and West in the Modern Era – Encounters, Conflicts and Images.”
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2012-2013:
Dr. Nir Avieli, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Nissim Otmazgin, Institute of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. On Barak, Department of Middle Eastern History, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Ofer Ashkenazi, History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Galia Benziman, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The Open University
Dr. Daphna Hirsh, Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication, The Open University
Dr. Orna Naftali, Institute of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Tsipi Ivry, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Haifa University
Dr. Ronie Parciack, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Avi Rubin, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Uria Shavit, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Yael Sternhell, Department of History, English and American Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Ornit Shani, Institute of Asian Studies, Haifa University
In 2011, the ninth group of the Young Scholars Forum was formed, led by late Academy Member
Prof. Zeev Sternhell of the Hebrew University’s Department of Political Science. The group’s subject of discussion was “The Modern World.”
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2011-2012:
Dr. Doron Avraham, History Department, Bar Ilan University
Dr. Nissim Otmazgin, Department of East Asian Studies, Hebrew University Dr. Dana Olmert, Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Katya Assaf, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University
Dr. Gilead Tal, School of Education, Hebrew University
Dr. Hillel Cohen, Department of Islam and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University
Dr. Ishay Landa, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, Open University
Dr. Julia Lerner, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Orna Naftali, Department of East Asian Studies, Hebrew University
Dr. Dennis Sobolev, Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Haifa University
Dr. Inbal Ofer, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, Open University
Parciack Ronie, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Tali Kristal, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Haifa University
Dr. Hila Shamir, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
The eighth group of the Young Scholars Forum convened in 2010, led by Prof. Yoel Rak of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Anatomy and Anthropology. This group focused on the ancient world and related subjects. It also discussed research topics pertaining to the methodology of science and the organization of scientific research.
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2010-2011:
Dr. Ronnie Goldstein, Department of Bible, Hebrew University
Dr. Ehud Weiss, Land of Israel Studies and Archeology, Bar Ilan University
Dr. Noah Hacham, Department of Jewish History, Hebrew University o
Dr. Nellie Thaler, Philosophy Department, Hebrew University
Dr. Uzi Leibner, Institute of Archeology, Hebrew University
Dr. Emma Maayan-Fanar, Department of Art History, Haifa University
Dr. Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Institute of Archeology, Hebrew University
Academy Member
Prof. Shulamit Volkov of Tel Aviv University’s Department of History led the seventh group of the Young Scholars Forum, which began to meet in 2009. The group focused on the topic of “Text and Context.”
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2009-2010:
Dr. Benjamin Brown, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University
Dr. Adi Efal, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Yuval Eylon, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, Open University
Dr. Daphna Hacker, Faculty of Law and NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Adia Mendelson-Maoz, Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, Open University
Dr. Amos Morris-Reich, Department of Jewish History, Haifa University
Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, Department of History, Hebrew University
Dr. Noam Reisner, Department of English and American Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Analia Schlosser, School of Economics, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Haim Weiss, Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University
Dr. Assaf Yasur-Landau, Department of Maritime Civilizations and the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, Haifa University
The sixth Young Scholars Forum group, formed in 2008, was led by late Academy Member
Prof. Menachem Brinker of the Hebrew University’s Departments of Hebrew Literature Philosophy. Prof. Brinker chose the general topic of “Interpretation.”
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2008-2009:
Dr. Talia Fisher, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Miriam Goldstein, Department of Arabic, Bar Ilan University
Dr. Tamar Hess, Department of Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University
Dr. Yaakov Mascetti, Department of Comparative Literature, Bar Ilan University
Dr. Galit Noga-Banai, Department of the History of Art, Hebrew University
Dr. Rami Reiner, Department of Jewish Thought, Ben Gurion University
Dr. Andrea Rotstein, Department of Classics, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Zur Shalev, Department of General History, Haifa University
Dr. Dimitry Shumsky, Department of Jewish History, Hebrew University
Dr. Galia Yanoshevsky, Department of French Culture, Bar Ilan University
Academy Member
Prof. Margalit Finkelberg of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Classics led the fifth group of the Young Scholars Forum, which convened in 2007. The main topic of the group’s meetings was “Methodologies.”
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2007-2008:
Dr. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, Department of Comparative Literature, Bar Ilan University
Dr. Ruben Borg, Department of English, Hebrew University
Dr. Sarit Cohen Goldner, Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University
Dr. Oren Gazal-Ayal, Department of Law, Haifa University
Dr. Orna Harari, Philosophy Department, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Tamar Herzig, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Ronit Kark, Department of Psychology, and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Eran Neuman, David Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Amit Pinchevski, Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University
Dr. Sharon Zuckerman, Department of Archaeology, Hebrew University
The fourth group of the Young Scholars Forum, which began meeting in 2006, was led by Former Academy President
Prof. Nili Cohen of Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law. “Globalization” was the group’s main topic of discussion. Several sessions were devoted to the subject of the humanities and to the Academy’s report on
The Future of the Humanities in Universities in Israel.
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2006-2007:
Dr. Yishai Blank, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Arlette David, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Hebrew University
Dr. Hila Keren, Department of Law, Hebrew University
Dr. Diego Olstein, Department of History, Hebrew University
Dr. Efraim Podoksik, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University
Dr. Ishai Rosen-Zvi, Department of Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Art History Department, Hebrew University
Dr. Amram Tropper, Department of Jewish History, Ben Gurion University
Dr. Nehama Verbin, Philosophy Department, Tel Aviv University
The third group of the Young Scholars Forum was established in 2005 and led by Academy Member
Prof. Yosef Kaplan of Hebrew University’s Departments of History and Jewish History. The subject “My Professional Creed,” and the discussions focused on the intellectual’s involvement in society and his/her professional, cultural and disciplinary identity. The group also discussed the state of the humanities in Israel.
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2005-2006:
Dr. Elie Assis, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Department of Bible, Bar Ilan University
Dr. Yair Bar-Haim, Psychology Department, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Yaron Ben-Naeh, Department of Jewish History, Hebrew University
Dr. Yoram Cohen, Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University
Dr. David Enoch, Philosophy Department and Faculty of Law, Hebrew University
Dr. Paul Frosh, Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew
University
Dr. Guy Miron, Jewish History Department, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
Dr. Iris Shagrir, Department of History, Open University
Dr. Fruma Zachs, Department of Middle Eastern History, Haifa University
Dr. Tzachi Zamir, Department of English and Department of General and Comparative Literature, Hebrew University
Academy Member
Prof. Yohanan Friedmann of the Department of Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem led the second group of the Young Scholars Forum, in 2004-2005.
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2004-2005:
Dr. Guy Beiner, Department of General History, Ben-Gurion University
Dr. Yigal Bronner, Indian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Avraham Faust, Institute of Archaeology, Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar Ilan University
Dr. Naama Friedmann, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Mahmoud Kayyal, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Sergio La Porta, Department of Armenian Studies, Hebrew University
Dr. Eyal Regev, Institute of Archaeology, Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar Ilan University
Dr. Meir Yaish, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Haifa University
Dr. Uri Yiftach, Department of Classics, Hebrew University
The first group of the Young Scholars Forum in the Humanities and Social Sciences was led by
Prof. Menahem Yaari, an economist and philosopher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who was president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities when the forum was established in 2003. The group addressed the subject of “Evolution in the Humanities and Social Sciences.”
Members of the Young Scholars Forum in 2003-2004:
Dr. Michal Biran, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Hebrew University
Dr. Eli Dresner, Philosophy Department, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Ran Hassin, Psychology Department, Hebrew University
Dr. Meir Hemmo , Philosophy Department, Haifa University
Dr. Michael Mousa Karayanni, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University
Dr. Shai Lavi, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Iris Rachamimov, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Orna Sasson-Levy, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and
Program in Gender Studies, Bar Ilan University
Dr. Ran Spiegler, School of Economics, Tel Aviv University