Membership in committees & other duties




Membership in committees
1992-1997 Museum and Research Zoo Comm., Dept. of Zoology, Tel Aviv University.
1993-2000 Teaching Committee, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
1993- Ecology Graduate Program Committee, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
1993-1994 Teaching Committee, Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University.
1995- Faculty of Life Sciences, steering committee for the B.Sc. program with a double major.
1996-1998 Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, task force for the future of natural history collections in Israel.
1997-1998 Planning Committee for a natural history museum at Tel Aviv University.
1998- Departmental Committee, Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University.
1998- Zoological Gardens Committee, Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University.
1998-1999 Academic Planning Committee of the Faculty of Life Sciences, TAU.
2000 Planning committee for building the School of the Environment.
2001- Steering Committee for Nature Campus, Public Programs, Exhibitions & Education at the National Collections of Natural History, the I. Meier Segals Garden for Zoological Research and the Botanic Gardens.
2001- Museum Committee (Chair), Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University.
Other duties
1995- Director of the National Collections of Natural History at Tel Aviv University.
1998-2002 Member of the Board of Directors of the Nature and National Parks Protection Authority of Israel (INPA), and member of the Science and Education Committees of the Board.
1998-1999 Member of a Discussion Group on Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, the Ministry of the Environment.
1998-1999 Member of the Academic Think Tank of the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership.
1998-2002 Member of the National Parks and Nature Reserves Council of Israel.
2000- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Institute (Peoples)
2001- Member of the Board of Directors of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI), member of the steering committee if the board, member of the board's conservation committee, and member of the SPNI Council.
2001- 2002 Scientific advisor to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for an NSF funded exhibit on "dogs" (co-curators Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Robert Wayne, and Linda Abraham).
2001 Judge, National Youth Science Fair, Science Museum, Jerusalem.
2001 Judge, International Science and Engineering Fair, San Jose, USA.
2001 Advisory committee for the Minister of the Environment's award for volunteers.
2001- Chair Israel MAB (Man and Biosphere) UNESCO Committee.
2001- Member, Israel IGBP (International Geosphere Biosphere Program) Committee.
2002 Judge, National Youth Science Fair, Science Museum, Jerusalem.
2002 Advisory committee for the Minister of the Environment's award for volunteers.
2002- Head, Nature Conservation Research Institute, Tel Aviv University.