Prof. Dan Caspi Chair of the Department of Communication Studies and Head of the Burda Center for Innovative Communications at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Nava Cohen-Avigdor Lecturer in the Department of Political Science (Public Communications Program) at Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Nelly Elias Lecturer in the Department of Communications, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, specializing in Russian-language communications in Israel
Dr. Atara Frenkel-Faran Head of Digital Media and Lecturer in the Communications Department at Sapir Academic College and the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Mustafa Kabha Researcher and Lecturer in History and Communications at the Open University of Israel and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Yuval Karniel Senior Lecturer in Law and Communications in the School of Communications and the School of Law in the Academic Track of the College of Management. He is the Joint Director of the Integrated Program of Law and Communications, as well as Chair of the Communications Committee of the Lawyers’ Association, and a member of the Broadcasting Authority Plenum.
Dr. Ayelet Kohn Head of the Department of Communications at David Yellin College of Education
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig Chairman of the Political Studies Department at Bar-Ilan University and former Head of its Public Communications Program, specializing in New Media
Dr. Motti Neiger Senior Lecturer at the School of Communications at Netanya Academic College and Chair of the Israel Communication Association
Dr. Zvi Reich Former journalist (Yediot Aharonot), member of the faculty of the Department of Communications, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, specializing in the sociology of journalism
Dr. Amit Schejter Assistant Professor of Communications in the Department of Telecommunications at the College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University in the United States
Adv. Dr. Tehilla Shwartz- Altshuler Researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute and Lecturer in Political Science at Bar-Ilan University and at the School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Marina Zeltser Shorer Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University
Participants in the Seminar
Dr. Michael Birnhack Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. He researches, writes and lectures on issues of law and technology and intellectual property. He has edited a book on Freedom of Speech in Israel (2006). Prior to joining Tel Aviv University, Dr. Birnhack was Co-Director of the Center of Law and Technology at Haifa University.
Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, Bruce W. Wayne Professor of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and former President of the Israeli Press Council