Board Members

29 April 2010

  • Chair: Dr. Smadar Ben Natan, legal scholar and University of Oregon faculty member. Dr. Ben Natan researches and writes about law, human rights, politics, security and penal regimes
     
  • Thair Abu Rass, Director of Palestinian Programs, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
     
  • Meir Amor, Professor of sociology (retired), Concordia University (emeritus), lives in Israel.
     
  • Ido Blum, attorney, partner at a law firm specializing in administrative and public law. 
     
  • Elias Khouri, attorney in private practice who specializes in real-estate law and administrative law.
     
  • Ghada Majadli, a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London. She holds an MA in Human Rights and Transitional Justice from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research explores intersections of health, politics, and power structures in the Palestinian-Israeli context.
     
  • Orly Noy, left-wing Mizrahi activist, writer and editor on the web-based blog magazine +972, translates Farsi poetry and prose into Hebrew.
     
  • Osama Tanous, pediatrician and public health and health policy researcher.
     
  • Attorney Sawsan Zaher, human rights lawyer and former deputy general director at Adalah- The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
     
  • David Zonsheine, Senior high-tech executive for the past twenty years. Active in business development and works at integrating Arab society into Israeli high-tech. Initiated the iChange plan for increasing the number of Arab faculty members in the scientific disciplines in Israeli universities. Writes op-eds and literary reviews for Israeli daily Haaretz