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Hanna Yablonka is an Israeli historian and scholar. Born in Tel Aviv, she is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and staff historian for the Ghetto Fighters' House.
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Tuvia Friling is an Emeritus professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Previously he served as a senior researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism and a lecturer at the Israel Studies Program both at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Ruth Kark is an Israeli historical geographer and professor of geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Kark is a well-known researcher and expert in the field of the historical geography of Palestine and Israel.
Guy Beiner is an Israeli-born historian of the late-modern period with particular expertise in Irish history.
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Ron Folman (Hebrew: רון פולמן;, is an Israeli quantum physicist and social activist. He works at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev where he heads the Atom Chip group.
Michal Livia Krumer-Nevo is the David and Dorothy Schwartzman professor in Community Development at the Spitzer Department of Social Work and the honorary president of the Israeli Center for Qualitative Research of People and Societies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her scholarly activity covers issues of poverty, critical practice in social work, social injustice, Othering and qualitative methodologies. She developed the poverty-aware paradigm (PAP), a social justice framework for practice with people in poverty that has been widely implemented by the Welfare and Social Services Ministry in Israel.
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