Faculty and Staff - Social Work B.S.W

Chen Sharony has a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her study deals with the gap between Public preferences for redistribution and actual policy. Chen also takes part in studies concerning social capital and health and public preferences for redistribution. Chen teaches several courses at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sapir Academic College and Ashkelon Academic college.

Daniel J.N. Weishut, PsyD, MBA, is a Clinical Psychologist, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Staff Member in the Office for the Promotion of Teaching Quality at Hadassah Academic College. At the Department, he fulfills the functions of Group Work Coordinator, Student Counsellor for Ultra-Orthodox Students, Coordinator Project for the Advance of Arab Students, and Erasmus+ Coordinator. Furthermore, he is Co-Editor of Mikbatz – the Israel Journal of Group Psychotherapy and publishes about interpersonal, group, and organizational encounters. He has a private practice and is active in organizations for social change.

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.

Dr. Hadas Vittelson-Margalit (Phd) is a clinical psychologist.

She is a lecturer at the Social Work School at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, and at Bar-Ilan University. 

She was also a lecturer at Ariel University in Samaria, at the Ruppin Academic Center, and at the Haredi branch in Jerusalem.

 She holds a BA degree and a MA degree in Clinical Psychology of children from the department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University. She received her PhD also from the department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University. Her research title was: "Self-Awareness: Adaptive and Pathological Aspects".

In parallel with her academic work, she is engaged in the field of psychotherapy as a clinical psychologist. She owns a private clinic in Jerusalem, for the treatment of children, teenagers and adults. Prior to that she worked as a clinical psychologist at the Geha Mental Health Center.

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.