Dr. Noga Tsur is a senior faculty member at the School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University. Dr. Tsur the head of the Embodied Trauma and Pain Research Lab, specializing in trauma, child maltreatment, with special focus on bodily and health-related ramifications of trauma.

Prof. Rachel Dekel is a full professor at the Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Her approach is based on an ecological view of trauma and resilience: in order to promote recovery, the complex interactions among individual, familial, and environmental, has to be taken into consideration.

Director of therapeutic centers and Welfare departments, Clinical Social Worker and Director of the Family Therapeutic Center, Social Services, Nethanya, Israel. Lecturer at Tel Aviv University School of Social Work and at Haruv institute.

Prof. Liat Hamama is an associate professor at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University. Her scientific work explores stressful/traumatic situations, personal and environmental resources, coping, and subjective well-being with reference to three central target populations: children and adolescents, the populations that support and surround them (including parents, social workers, teachers), and healthcare providers (nurses and physicians).

Avishai Benish is associate professor at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research stands at the intersection of law and social policy, combining legal and social science theories and methodologies. His fields of expertise include access to social rights and take-up advocacy. He is the former chairman of the Israeli national association of the European Network for Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet).

Dr Galit Ben-Amitay is a Child Psychiatrist and Jungian Analyst. Affiliated with
the Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University. Dr. Ben- Amitay has significant clinical experience in the field of child abuse as well as research and training in this topic.

Prof. Zachi Grossman is a pediatrician in Tel Aviv. He is the President of the Israel Pediatric Association, and he is also a senior member of the Adelson School of Medicine Faculty in the Ariel University. As a pediatrician and as a mentor of students in the medical school, Prof. Grossman has gained huge experience in conveying messages relating to doctor – patient interface, both in clinical settings and in the teaching environment.

Prof. Karni Ginzburg is a full Professor at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, and the head of the Master’s Program for Clinical Social Work in Stress and Trauma Situations. Her work is centered on the intersection between exposure to traumatic stress, representations of the self and representations of the body, and their implications for the survivors’ adjustment.

Prof. Amrita (Lt. Col. retired) Zahava Solomon from Tel Aviv University has been an eminent trauma researcher for the past four decades. Her research focuses on the multifaceted longitudinal ramifications of combat veterans, prisoners of war, Holocaust survivors and survivors of ongoing terror and their spouses and children. Prof. Solomon served as an advisor in the DSM-IV subcommittee for PTSD. She earned numerous Israeli and international awards, some of which include the Prize of Israel (2009), and the Emet Prize in Social Sciences, Social Work (2016).