• Interdisciplinary Faculty for Society and Community / Social Work (B.S.W.)

  • Orit Bershtling

    Dr. Orit Bershtling

    (Ph.D.)

    Lecturer

  • Gitit Broid

    Gitit Broid

    (M.S.W.)

    Teacher

    Mrs. Gitit Broid is a Ph.D student at Ben-Gurion University. Her research deals with immigration, multiculturalism and specifically, parental experience during cultural transition, and the changes in values, believes and practices of parents from the Bukharan community.

    Gitit Broid is a social worker and a psychotherapist, who works in a mental haelth clinic, and in a private clinic, a group psychotherapist and a supervisor. Previously she worked with adolescents, Holocaust survivors, 'second generation', and bereaved parents. She is an active partner in the 'DEMO' project, which deals with developing modernized curricula of immigrants and multicultural studies, in academic institutions in Israel, in collaboration with academic institutions in Europe.

    She was a lecturer at the department of Social Work at Ben Gurion University and Beit Berl College.

     

  • Yaelle Chouraqui- Elfassi

    Dr. Yaelle Chouraqui- Elfassi

    (Ph.D.)

    Senior Teacher

  • Cohen Gadi

    Mr. Gadi Cohen

    (M.A)

    Teacher

  • Ehrenfreund-Hager Ahinoam

    Dr. Ahinoam Ehrenfreund-Hager

    (Ph.D.)

    Senior Teacher

  • Elek benmoshe Frida

    Dr. Frida Elek benmoshe

    (Ph.D.)

    Teacher

    A community social worker and researcher in the field of information and knowledge management. She holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in social work from the Hebrew University, as well as an additional master's degree and a Ph.D. in information and knowledge management from the University of Haifa. Her doctoral research focused on the online accessibility of rights-related information, information barriers in the process of claiming rights, readability, and search patterns. Her articles have been published in leading academic journals and have influenced the adaptation of information on the "Kol Zchut" website.
    Alongside her research activities, Frida has held roles in knowledge management, learning, and evaluation in social organizations and the public sector, including the Ministry of Welfare, the Maoz organization, and Oranim College. She has worked for over a decade as a community social worker in organizations dedicated to promoting and making rights more accessible, striving to bridge the worlds of social welfare with data, information, and knowledge management.

  • Ari Engelberg

    Dr. Ari Engelberg

    (Ph.D.)

    Senior Lecturer

  • Shlomo O Goldman

    Dr. Shlomo O Goldman

    (Ph.D.)

    Teacher

  • Keren Hadar

    Keren Hadar

    (M.S.W.)

    Teacher

    Keren Hadar, B.A and M.S.W graduate in School of Social Work of the University of Haifa. Integrates the field and academy. For the past 14 years, has been working as a community social work and as a volunteer coordinator in the social services department at Hadar, Haifa. At the same time as working in the field, involved in integration in research and academia
    These days, Phd candidate, in the advanced writing stages of the doctoral dissertation on the subject of relationships between team members under the guidance of Prof. Guy Enosh and Prof. Shay Tzafrir, from University of Haifa. The purpose of this work is to examine relationships between staff members among service providers, with the sector that have been chosen to examine in the current study is social services departments in Israel. This case is interesting, as it is a professional sector that socializes into the professional values of social work (the bride, empathy), which at the same time include challenging working conditions (such as; workload, lack of budgets) that can cause frustration and aggression. This work combines qualitative and quantitative research that includes two rounds. 

  •  Naama  Halevi Genach

    Naama Halevi Genach

    Lecturer

  • Hardal-Zreik Hozam

    Hozam Hardal-Zreik

    Teacher

    Hozam is a social worker and a doctoral student at the Hebrew University's School of Social Work and Social Welfare. Her doctoral dissertation examines the image of social work and female social workers in Palestinian society in Israel from a critical perspective, supervised by Prof. Mimi Ajzenstadt and Prof. Edith Blit-Cohen.
    She holds a bachelor's and master's degree in social work from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her Master thesis focused on the experiences of female community social workers in Palestinian society in Israel, the challenges they face in their work, and their coping strategies, under the supervision of Prof. Edith Blit-Cohen.
    Among her professional experience, she has worked as a student counselor at the Technion and a research assistant at different academic institutions. Prior to this, she managed the emergency line for victims of sexual assault at Alssiwar association, and today she serves as a member of it's Board.

  • Hefetz Michal

    Dr. Michal Hefetz

    (Ph.D.)

    Teacher

    Holds a PhD from Bar Ilan University and a master's degree in the clinical Course also from Bar Ilan University. Organizational consulting and group training studies. have expertise in child and youth.

     

    Member of the Disciplinary Committee under the Social Workers Act. 

     

    Combines clinical knowledge with systemic knowledge. 

     

    My professional field of work over the past 25 years has been the development and operation of supervision of out-of-home settings for children and youth and for people with a wide variety of disabilities. In the last decate  I'm working in the Ministry of Labor and Welfare and social services,

     

    in the development of policies, services and knowledge in the field. Currently, the Director of the Community Housing Service in the Disability Administration.

     

  • Eliav Keidar

    Dr. Eliav Keidar

    (Ph.D.)

    Lecturer

  • Yoav  Levinstein

    Yoav Levinstein

    (M.A)

    Teacher

    Yoav Levinstein is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist recently retired from the IDF Health department.

    Completed his Bachelor’s degree in Social Work in Tel Aviv university.

    He received his Master’s degree from Bar Ilan University, writing his thesis about “Secondary traumatization among wives of IDF combat soldiers, the contribution of Ambiguous loss”.

    Yoav is currently a PhD candidate in Bar Ilan School of social work. 

    His dissertation is about PTSD symptom trajectories among combat veterans, specifically studying the impact of Moral Injury on these trajectories.

    Yoav completed the psychoanalytic psychotherapy program in Bar Ilan University.

    His scientific interests include Combat PTSD, Moral injury, Resilience strategies and Mental fitness.

  • Ruth Maytles

    Dr. Ruth Maytles

    (Ph.D.)

    Senior Lecturer