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The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Israel’s leading human rights organizations and the only one dealing with the entire spectrum of rights and liberties issues, has compiled the following list of experts on human rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories. The experts below are categorized according to field of expertise in alphabetical order and are available for interviews on these topics in the languages specified. The list includes ACRI staff and board members, as well as external specialists.<\/p>\n

All requests for interviews and information can be directed to Melanie Takefman, ACRI’s International Communication and Development Coordinator, at melanie@acri.org.il, ++972-2-652-1218 or ++972-528-6060-23. For a complete list of ACRI staff biographies and for photos of interviewees for media use, click here <\/a> or contact Melanie Takefman (details above).<\/i><\/p>\n

Human Rights in Israel – General<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Sami Michael
\nPosition: Author, President of ACRI
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew, Arabic<\/p>\n

A native of Baghdad, Sami Michael is one of Israel’s most beloved writers, and is the recipient of several literary prizes both in Israel and abroad. He has served as president of ACRI’s board for more than five years. In 2007, Mr. Michael won the prestigious Emet Prize for Culture & Arts, awarded to individuals each year who have made outstanding contributions to Israeli society, under the auspices of the A.M.N. Foundation and the Prime Minister’s Office.<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Dori Spivak
\nPosition: Chairman of ACRI Board of Directors, Deputy Director of Tel Aviv University’s Clinical Law Programs
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nRead Dori Spivak’s biography<\/a>
\n<\/i>
\nName: Mr. Hagai El-Ad
\nPosition: ACRI Executive Director
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nRead Hagai El-Ad’s biography<\/a>
\n<\/i>
\nName: Attorney Dan Yakir
\nPosition: ACRI Chief Legal Counsel
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nRead Dan Yakir’s biography<\/a>
\n<\/i>
\nName: Mr. Rami Adut
\nPosition: ACRI Public Hotline Coordinator, Jerusalem, ACRI Right to Health Project Coordinator
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Dana Alexander
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department Director
\nLanguages: English, French, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Dr. Yousef Jabareen
\nPosition: Lecturer at Haifa University’s Faculty of Law, Director of the Dirasat Arab Center for Law and Policy
\nLanguages: English, Arabic, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Mr. Victor Lederfarb
\nPosition: ACRI Financial Manager
\nLanguages: Spanish<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Lila Margalit
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Hadar Namir
\nPosition: ACRI Public Hotline Director
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Gila Orkin
\nPosition: ACRI International Relations Department Director
\nLanguages: English<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Tali Nir
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: Dutch, English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Anat Saragusti
\nPosition: ACRI Board Member, Journalist, Director of Agenda, the Israeli Center for Strategic Communications
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Gilead Sher
\nPosition: ACRI Board Member; former Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister’s Office and former head of the Israeli negotiating team in talks with the Palestinian Authority
\nLanguages: English, French, Hebrew\t<\/p>\n

Specific Issues (in alphabetical order)\t<\/p>\n

A<\/u>
\nArab Minority in Israel (including Bedouin)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Dana Alexander
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department Director
\nLanguages: English, French, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Unrecognized Bedouin villages of the Negev<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Nasrat Dakwar
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Arabic, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Oded Feller
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Residency and citizenship status of the Negev Bedouin<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Gil Gan-Mor
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Rights of the Bedouin community in Israel, social services in the unrecognized villages of the Negev<\/p>\n

Name: Dr. Yousef Jabareen
\nPosition: Lecturer at Haifa University’s Faculty of Law, Director of the Dirasat Arab Center for Law and Policy
\nLanguages: English, Arabic, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Collective rights of the Arab minority, constitutional rights of the Arab minority, equality in budgetary allocations<\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Anat Saragusti
\nPosition: ACRI Board Member, Journalist, Director of Agenda, the Israeli Center for Strategic Communications
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Banna Shoughry-Badarne
\nPosition: Legal Director of the Public Committee against Torture in Israel, former ACRI staff attorney on Bedouin rights
\nLanguages: English, Arabic, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Rights of the Bedouin community, Arab minority, rights of Arab women <\/p>\n

Name: Mr. Ehud Uziel
\nPosition: ACRI Public Outreach Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Mixed Cities (Ramle)<\/p>\n

B<\/u>
\nBedouin (see Arab Minority in Israel<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

C<\/strong>
\nCivil Liberties<\/p>\n

Name: Mr. Gershom Gorenberg
\nPosition: Historian, journalist, and author
\nLanguage: English
\nSpecific Area of Expertise: Freedom of information (IDF archive)<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Omri Kaufman
\nPosition: ACRI Board Member
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Religion and state<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Lila Margalit
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Freedom of expression, freedom to demonstrate<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Avner Pinchuk
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Right to privacy, freedom of expression, freedom of information<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Gilead Sher
\nPosition: ACRI Board Member; former Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister’s Office and former head of the Israeli negotiating team in talks with the Palestinian Authority
\nLanguages: English, French, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Freedom of the press<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Dan Yakir
\nPosition: ACRI Chief Legal Counsel
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Freedom of expression<\/p>\n

Criminal Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Lila Margalit
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: General, counterterrorism and human rights, secret evidence, prisoners’ rights<\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Hadar Namir
\nPosition: ACRI Public Hotline Director
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Police violence<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Tali Nir
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: Dutch, English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Police violence in East Jerusalem, criminal justice in East Jerusalem<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Dori Spivak
\nPosition: Chairman of ACRI Board of Directors, Deputy Director of Tel Aviv University’s Clinical Law Programs
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Prisoners’ Rights<\/p>\n

E<\/u>
\nEducation, Education for Human Rights and Democracy in Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Ronit Piso
\nPosition: ACRI Public Outreach Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Human rights education for youth, International Humanitarian Law<\/p>\n

Name: Mr. Ehud Uziel
\nPosition: ACRI Public Outreach Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Human rights education for youth, International Humanitarian Law<\/p>\n

Name: Mr. Oded Zipory
\nPosition: ACRI Education Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: The right to education, education in Hebrew schools, human rights education in Israel’s security forces<\/p>\n

East Jerusalem<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Nisreen Alyan
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Arabic, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: General, social and economic rights of East Jerusalem residents, education in East Jerusalem<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Nasrat Dakwar
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Arabic, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Planning and building policy in East Jerusalem<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Oded Feller
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Residency and citizenship status of East Jerusalem residents<\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Sarah Kreimer
\nPosition: ACRI Board Member, Associate Director of Ir Amim
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Tali Nir
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: Dutch, English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: General, social and economic rights of East Jerusalem residents, education in East Jerusalem<\/p>\n

Name: Mr. Ehud Uziel
\nPosition: ACRI Public Outreach Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Ethiopian Community in Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Yifat Ovadia
\nPosition: ACRI Board Member
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Anat Saragusti
\nPosition: ACRI Board Member, Journalist, Director of Agenda, the Israeli Center for Strategic Communications
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Dori Spivak
\nPosition: Chairman of ACRI Board of Directors, Deputy Director of Tel Aviv University’s Clinical Law Programs
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Discrimination in public places<\/p>\n

F<\/u>
\nForced Hospitalization (see Mentally Ill<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

I<\/strong><\/u>
\nInternational Law<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Dr. Yousef Jabareen
\nPosition: Lecturer at Haifa University’s Faculty of Law, Director of the Arab Dirasat Center for Law and Policy
\nLanguages: English, Arabic, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Tali Nir
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: Dutch, English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Ronit Piso
\nPosition: ACRI Public Outreach Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: International Humanitarian Law<\/p>\n

Name: Mr. Ehud Uziel
\nPosition: ACRI Public Outreach Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: International Humanitarian Law<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Limor Yehuda
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: International Law in the Occupied Territories <\/p>\n

L<\/strong><\/u>
\nLGBT Rights (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered)<\/strong>><\/p>\n

Name: Mr. Hagai El-Ad
\nPosition: ACRI Executive Director
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Gil Gan-Mor
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Hadar Namir
\nPosition: ACRI Public Hotline Director
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Dan Yakir
\nPosition: ACRI Chief Legal Counsel
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

M<\/u>
\nMentally Ill, Forced Hospitalization<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Hadar Namir
\nPosition: ACRI Public Hotline Director
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Forced hospitalization<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Dori Spivak
\nPosition: Chairman of ACRI Board of Directors, Deputy Director of Tel Aviv University’s Clinical Law Programs
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Rights of the mentally ill<\/p>\n

O<\/u>
\nOccupied Territories (OPT<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Nasrat Dakwar
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Arabic, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Planning and building policy, access to water, Separation Barrier<\/p>\n

Name: Mr. Gershom Gorenberg
\nPosition: Historian, journalist, and author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977
\nLanguage: English
\nSpecific Area of Expertise: Settlements, Israeli policy vis-\u00e0-vis settlements<\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Anat Saragusti
\nPosition: ACRI Board Member, Journalist, Director of Agenda, the Israeli Center for Strategic Communications
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: OPT general, settler violence<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Dan Yakir
\nPosition: ACRI Chief Legal Counsel
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Limor Yehuda
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: International law in the OPT, freedom of movement, settler violence, Hebron <\/p>\n

R<\/u>
\nRefugees<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Oded Feller
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Refugees and Asylum-Seekers<\/p>\n

Residency and Citizenship, Migration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Oded Feller
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Citizenship and residency status, Interior Ministry, Refugees<\/p>\n

Name: Ms. Hadar Namir
\nPosition: ACRI Public Hotline Director
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Citizenship and residency status, Interior Ministry<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Michal Pinchuk
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Migrant workers<\/p>\n

S<\/u>
\nSocial and Economic Rights in Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Sharon Abraham-Weiss
\nPosition: Lecturer at the Academic Center for Law and Business; former ACRI attorney on workers’ rights
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Workers’ rights<\/p>\n

Name: Mr. Rami Adut
\nPosition: ACRI Right to Health Coordinator, ACRI Public Hotline Coordinator, Jerusalem
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: The right to health<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Gil Gan-Mor
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Housing rights<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Debbie Gild-Hayo
\nPosition: ACRI Public Outreach Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Public advocacy regarding social and economic rights, Knesset<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Michal Pinchuk
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Migrant workers<\/p>\n

W<\/u>
\nWomen’s Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Nisreen Alyan
\nPosition: ACRI Legal Department
\nLanguages: English, Arabic, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Israeli Arab women, women and religion in Israel, women and status in Israel<\/p>\n

Name: Attorney Banna Shoughry-Badarne
\nPosition: Legal Director of the Public Committee against Torture in Israel; former ACRI staff attorney on Bedouin rights
\nLanguages: English, Arabic, Hebrew
\nSpecific Areas of Expertise: Israeli Arab women, Bedouin women, women and religion in Israel, women and status in Israel<\/p>\n

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