Dr. Neta Ziv (Director)
Phone: 03-6405237
E-mail: zneta@post.tau.ac.il
Phone: 03-6405264
E-mail: anatbd@post.tau.ac.il
Attorney Ora Bloom
Phone: 03-6406772
E-mail:orabloom@post.tau.ac.il
Attorney Hicham Chabaita
Phone:03-6406961
E-mail: chabaita@post.tau.ac.il
Attorney Galia Feit
Phone: 03-6405786
E-mail: gfeit@post.tau.ac.il
Attorney Dana Freibach-Heifetz
Phone: 03-6407184
E-mail: danafh@post.tau.ac.il
Attorney Itai Hermelin
Phone: 03-6405466
E-mail: itaih@post.tau.ac.il
Dr. Adriana Kemp
Phone: 03-6407670
E-mail: akemp@post.tau.ac.il
Attorney Tally Kritzman
Phone: 03-6408361
Email:tallykr@post.tau.ac.il
Dori Spivak (Dep. Director)
Phone: 03-6406778
E-mail:dspivak@post.tau.ac.il
Dr. Hagit Lernau
Phone: 03-6932624
E-mail: hagitl@justice.gov.il
Prof. Yoram Margalioth (Home site)
Phone: 03-6407014
E-mail:margalio@post.tau.ac.il
Dr.Guy Mundlak (Home site)
Phone: 03-6408374
E-mail:mundlak@post.tau.ac.il
Attorney Gadeer Nicola
Phone: 03-6408107
Email: gadeern@post.tau.ac.il
Dr. Issachar Rozen Zvi
Tel: (972)-3-6409077
Email: issirz@post.tau.ac.il
Attorney Itai Svirski
Phone: 03-6405235
E-mail: itais@post.tau.ac.il
Attorney Hen Tirosh
Phone: 03-6405547
E-mail:henti@post.tau.ac.il
Public Interest Law Program
Attorney Tal Korman
Phone: 03-6407646
E-mail: tkorman@post.tau.ac.il
Attorney Ela Alon
Phone: 03-6409267
E-mail: elaa@post.tau.ac.il
Ms. Yael Kafri
Phone: 03-6406729
Email: kafriya@post.tau.ac.il
Attorney Ofer Sitbon
Phone: 03-6406729
Email: ofer.sitbon@tamuz.org.il
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Dr. Neta Ziv
Phone: 03-6405237
E-mail: zneta@post.tau.ac.il
Dr. Neta Ziv is the director of the clinical programs at the Tel Aviv faculty of Law, and the academic supervisor of the Human Rights Program. Dr. Ziv teaches courses on Legal ethics and the legal profession, Law and social change, and the Rights of persons with disabilities.
Dr. Ziv received her LL.B. from the Hebrew University Law Faculty in 1983, and her LL.M. from The American University in Washington, DC in 1986. She practiced as a public interest lawyer for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel between 1986-1996, and served as a leading attorney in some of Israel's major human rights cases litigated before the Israeli Supreme Court. She continued her studies at Stanford Law School and received her J.S.D. in 2001. Dr. Ziv was among the founding members of the Israel Women's Network Legal Center and was the chair of Bizchut - The Israel Human Rights Center for Persons with Disabilities. She currently serves as a board member of Itach-Maaki - Women Lawyers for Social Justice, and is the Vice president of The New Israel Fund.
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Attorney Dori Spivak
Phone: 03- 6406778
E-mail: dspivak@post.tau.ac.il
Dori Spivak is the deputy director of the clinical programs. He teaches at the Human Rights Program since 1996. Attorney Spivak recieved his LL.B (Cum Laude) and B.A in Economics in 1996, both from the University of Haifa. He obtained his LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2000. While at Harvard, Attorney Spivak was also nominated as a visiting fellow at HLS's Human Rights Program, and served as the president of the Middle East Law Students Association. Attorney Spivak currently serves as a chairperson of the board of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and is active in several other Israeli human rights organizations.
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Attorney Ela Alon
Phone:03-6409267
E-mail: elaa@post.tau.ac.il
Ela received her LL.B (cum laude) in 1998 and her LL.M (cum laude) in 2005, both from the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law.
Since 1996, Ela has been a volunteer in Halev - The Movement for Fighting Poverty, an NGO that provides legal aid to low income communities. Ela served as the coordinator of the volunteer students in Tel-Aviv University's Faculty of Law. She established and managed the legal aid given at the Execution Offices. Ela also coordinated the organization's advocacy program, which promoted initiatives for social change. .
Between 2005 and 2007 Ela worked as a legal advisor to the Fire & Rescue Commission in the Ministry of the Interior. Between 2001 and 2004 Ela served as a legal officer in the Legal Advising and Legislation Section of the Military Attorney General in the I.D.F. Prior to that she served as a military prosecutor in the Head Military Prosecutor's Office (1998-2001).
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Attorney Anat Ben-Dor
Phone: 03-6405264
E-mail: anatbd@post.tau.ac.il
Anat Ben-Dor is aclinical instructor of the Refugee Rights Program. established at 2001. She received her LL.B. in 1990 and her LL.M in 2002 (cum laude), both from the Hebrew University Faculty of Law. Attorney Ben-Dor is also a graduate of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership, Jerusalem. She worked as an attorney at IRAC - Israel Religious Action Center (1992-1998), and was the head of the IRAC's legal department (1995-1998).she was the director of the Public Interest Law Resource Center (2001-2005)
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Phone: 03-6406772
E-mail:orabloom@post.tau.ac.il
Ora has earned her LL. B. at the Bar-Ilan University. She has a Philosophy and Literature B.A (cum laude) from the Tel-Aviv University. Ora has graduated the Student Facilitators training program at the Stanford University MBA Program. She is a mediator as accredited by the Santa Clara, California institute for dispute resolution.
Between the years 1996 and 2000, Ora was an attorney in a civil law office and served as a legal counselor regarding women rights at the workplace.
In recent years, while living in California, Ora worked as a students facilitator in the Stanford MBA Program.
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Phone:03-6406961
E-mail: chabaita@post.tau.ac.il
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Galia Feit is the clinical supervisor for the new Microbusiness & Economic Justice program.
Galia received her LL.B from the Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University in 1997 and her LL.M from the Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University in 1999.Between 1998-2003 Galia served as the Legal assistant to Justice Shlomo Levin, Deputy President of the Israeli Supreme Court.
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Phone: 03-6407184
E-mail: danafh@post.tau.ac.il
Before joining the clinical programs, Attorney Freibach-Heifetz worked as a layer in two law firms, practicing mainly constitutional law, alongside civil-commercial law (1991-1999). After that (1999-2004) she was active as a lawyer at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, focusing on issues of social human rights.
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Attorney Itai Hermelin
Phone: 03-6405466
E-mail: itaih@post.tau.ac.il
Itai Hermelin joined the Criminal Justice Program in 2001. He received his LL.B from the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law in 1994. He also recieved a B.A cum-laude in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University in 1994. He served as a military prosecutor (1994 - 1998) and headed the military defence unit of IDF's Northern Command (1998 - 2001). As a military defence attorney he led struggles to curtail pretrial arrests, to minimize criminal records of soldier's martial court convictions, and for the prevention of arrests and prosecutions of drug addicts in drug abuse cases.
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Joined the Public Interest Law Program in 2007 as the coordinator of the Law and Education project. Ms. Kafri holds a bachelor's degree in Law (LL.B), a bachelor's degree in Philosophy (B.A) (cum laude) and a master's degree in Education Administration (M.A) (cum laude), all from Tel-Aviv University. Yael Kafri conducts academic and training courses for school headmasters in the area of Law and Education, and works for the legal department of the Ministry of Education in the field of legislation. Yael took part also in the Dovrat committee and Rotlevi committee, doing legislative work in the fields of quality and equality in public education.
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Phone: 03-6407670
Email: akemp@post.tau.ac.il
Dr. Adriana Kemp is one of the academic instructors of the Refugee Rights Program since October 2007. Dr. Kemp is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University. Dr. Kemp teaches courses on Political Sociology, Migration and the Nation State, and Citizenship and Migration among others.
Dr. Kemp received her PhD from the Tel Aviv University in 1997. She is a research fellow at the Van Leer Institute of Jerusalem and has served as a visiting scholar at the Dept. of Sociology in Columbia University. Her main research areas are labor migration policies and the development of communities among undocumented labor migrants; civil society and citizenship; and urban regimes.
She has served as a board member of Kav Laoved- Hotline for Workers in 2001-2004 and as testimony to the Advisory Committee for the Examination of an Immigration Policy for the State of Israel. Since 2005 she is an active member in the Steering Committee of Women Studies Forum, Tel Aviv University and she performs as the academic liaison for the Support Hotline for Victims of Sexual Harassment on Tel Aviv University Campus.
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Phone: 03-6407646
E-mail: tkorman@post.tau.ac.il
Tal Korman is the director of the Public Interest Law Program since 2005.
She received her LL.B from the Hebrew University Faculty of Law (1992) and her Master in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University (Boston, USA), the Kennedy School of Government (2003). She served as a military prosecutor for the IDF (1992-1994) and worked as an attorney in the private sector, specializing in Torts, Insurance and Labor Law.
Between 1997 and 2002 she served as the Executive Director of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel. Between 2003 and 2004 she served as the Executive Director of the Israel AIDS Task Force. In these capacities, attorney Korman has promoted the prevention of sexual violence, the status and rights of sexual assault survivors, the elimination of AIDS dispersion and the support to people living with HIV/AIDS. These were conducted in conjunction with other human rights organizations, using strategies such as: legislative initiatives, legal representation, public awareness campaigns, lobbying and producing professional publications.
She has been performing volunteer work for the rape crisis centers since 1994. She has also worked for 5 years in educating children with special needs.
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Phone: 03-6932624
Email:tallykr@post.tau.ac.il
Tally Kritzman is one of the academic instructions of the Refugee Rights Program .
She received her LL.B. (cum laude) in 2002, from the Tel Aviv University. Currently enrolled in the Direct JSD program in the Tel Aviv University and is writing her thesis on "Immigration due to socio-economic constraints: The Need for a New Legal Category". During the academic year of 2006-7 she participate in a Visiting Researcher program in the Yale University, USA. Apart from her academic work, she is volunteering in the clinical programs assisting migrant workers and asylum seekers since 2002.
Clerked for Justice Mishael Cheshin (retired) in the Israeli Supreme Court, and is a licensed lawyer since 2004.
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Dr. Hagit Lernau
Phone: 03-6932624
E-mail: hagitl@justice.gov.il
Dr. Hagit Lernau joined the Criminal Justice Program as an academic supervisor in July 2007. Dr. Lernau received her B.A in Philosophy (1992), her LLB (1997) and her PhD in Criminology (2002) from the Hebrew University. Her doctoral thesis focused on the empirical assessment of the way in which new legislation (from 1998) regarding detention and legal representation provided by the Public Defender's Office affected court hearings held in the magistrates court in Tel-Aviv.
Since 2005 Dr. Lernau has been serving as Deputy Chief Public Defender, in the Ministry of Justice, where she heads the office's legislative work, and provides legal representation in appeal cases submitted to the Supreme Court.
She has been a member in the Criminal Justice forum of the Israel Bar Association since 2006.
Between 1998 and 2002 Dr. Lernau served as a member in the board of directors of the Israel Aids Task Force.
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Prof. Yoram Margalioth(Home page)
Phone: 03-6407014
E-mail:margalio@post.tau.ac.il
Dr.Guy Mundlak (Home site)
Phone: 03-6408374
E-mail:mundlak@post.tau.ac.il
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Phone: 03-6408107
Email: gadeern@post.tau.ac.il
She received her LLB in 1999 from the University of Haifa. Nicola is a candidate for LLM degree from the American University College of Law Washington DC.
She Worked in Adalah the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel since 1998.
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Tel: (972)-3-6409077
Email: issirz@post.tau.ac.il
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Tel: (972)-3-6409077
Email: ofer.sitbon@tamuz.org.il
Has been serving as editor-in-chief of the "Review of Law and Social Change" which is published by the Public Interest Law Program since December 2006; a PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, received his LLM degree in the "Law, Society and Politics" program from Tel Aviv University in 2005 (Summa cum Laude), and his bachelor's degree in Law and Philosophy from the Hebrew University in 1998 (Magna cum Laude); has written a thesis comparing the rights of migrant workers in Israel and France; has gained extensive experience in academic work including research, teaching, writing and editing; has worked in Israel's Attorney General's Office; and is a fervent militant against the privatization of prisons in Israel.
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Attorney Itai Svirski
Phone: 03-6405235
E-mail: itais@post.tau.ac.il
He received his LL.B. (Cum Laude) and B.A. in Political Science (Cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University (2001). He interned in the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), where he dealt mainly with social and economic rights and immigration law. In the years 2002-2005 he worked in one of Israel's leading labor law firms where he represented employees, workers unions and employers.
As a reserve army officer (paratroopers) he was one of the founders of "OMETZ LESAREV" (Courage to Refuse) that struggle to put an end to the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. He was one of the founders of "TA ADAM" in Tel Aviv University promoting human rights awareness among students (1999-2000). In addition, he was one of the initiators of the first Human Rights Week, and the first alternative "Student Day" in the campus.
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Phone: 03-6405547
E-mail: henti@post.tau.ac.il
Attorney Hen Tirosh joined the Environmental Justice Program in 2006. Attorney Tirosh received her LL.B (Cum Laude) from the University of Tel-Aviv and served as a legal clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ester Hayut. Attorney Tirosh worked as the coordinator of The Association for Distributive Justice, promoting democratization of land policy in Israel. Tirosh was also active for several years in The Land Forum, aiming at equal and democratic management of Israeli Land. In the past, Attorney Tirosh headed the "Halev" project in the Tel-Aviv Labor Tribunal, where law students offered pro-bono assistance in labor law and social security law.
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Ms. Ruthi Wolf
Phone: 03-6408341
E-mail: ruthiw@tauex.tau.ac.il
Mrs. Wolf holds an M.A. in industrial and organizational psychology, and has a 20 years experience in managerial jobs in different fields of higher education.
As part of her job she is responsible for the administartion of the clinics' budgets and manpower. She also receives all requests for legal aid, and refers them to appropriate persons and organizations.
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Prof. Stephen Wizner
Phone: 03-6406237
E-mail: Stephen.wizner@yale.edu
Stephen Wizner is the William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law at the Yale Law School, and Sackler Professor (Special Appointment) at the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law. He has been a clinical teacher at Yale since 1970 and taught in the Tel-Aviv clinical program during the Fall 2000/01 semester. Prof. Wizner serves as a special advisor to the clinical programs.
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