Nofar Yakovi Gan-Or
Nofar Yakovi Gan-Or is a postdoctoral fellow at Haifa University Faculty of Law. Her scholarly work focuses on law and reproduction, exploring how the law regulates the reproductive process and capacity from the standpoint of various stakeholders, including intended parents, donors, and medical professionals.
At the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, Nofar is participating in the scholars research group on Multiple, Complex & Cascading Extreme Conditions.
Nofar served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law and a Visiting Scholar at the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley Faculty of Law. She earned her doctoral and LL.M. degrees at Columbia University Law School, where she was an E. David Fischman Scholar. Her dissertation explores the regulatory challenges posed by the emergence of various assisted reproductive technologies in both Israel and the U.S.
Nofar clerked at the Israeli Supreme Court for Justice (ret.) Edna Arbel. She holds an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and a B.A. in Political Science from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Social Sciences.
Or Sidlik is a research assistant at the Minerva Center for the Study of the Rule of Law in Extreme Situations. She is a research master’s degree student in law at Tel Aviv University (LL.M) and holds a bachelor’s degree in law (with honors) at Tel Aviv University (LL.B). Or is also a lawyer (admitted to the bar in 2019). Currently she works as a legal assistant at the District Court.
Eran Beit Halachmi was the administrative assistant at Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and the National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Preparedness between the years 2018-2024. He has knowledge and experience in all aspects of operations and administration relating to the activities of research centers in academic institutions and also serves as the Administrator in other circles at the University of Haifa.
Prof. Amnon Reichman is a full Professor at the faculty of law, University of Haifa and a co-Principal Investigator (PI) of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa. In 2016 Prof. Reichman served as the President of the Israeli Law and Society Association. He specializes in public law (constitutional law and administrative law), and his areas of expertise include models of regulation, neo-institutionalism, separation of powers, theories of judicial review, human rights, and comparative constitutional and administrative law. He is the founder and chair of the Research Forum on the Rule of Law (faculty of law), and heads the graduate program (LL.M.) that specializes in civil and administrative law. He taught and developed the syllabus for the legal segment of the graduate program in Emergency and Disaster Management (Geography Department). Professor Reichman is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF). He is a member of the European Group of Public Law, and has taught in several leading institutions, including UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall), Yeshiva University (Cardozo School of Law) and the Center for Judicial Studies (University of Reno, Nevada). He holds an LLB (Cum Laude) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1994), an LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) (1996) and an S.J.D from the University of Toronto (2000). He conducted his post-graduate studies at the Center for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University (2001). Prior to his graduate studies, professor Reichman clerked for the Hon. Justice Aharaon Barak at the Supreme Court of Israel (1995).
Prof. Hans-Heinrich Trute was a Principal Investigator at the Minerva Center between 2013-2018. He is is full professor for Public Law, Media- and Telecommnications Law at the University of Hamburg (since 2001), director of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law at the University of Hamburg, co director of the Center for legal education at the university of Hamburg, co-Principal Investigator (PI) of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law and Extreme Conditions. He is member of the Constitutional Court of Saxony (since 1993), His research focusses on administrative law, theory of public law, security law, media and telecommunications law and public administration science.
Stefan Voigt is professor at the University of Hamburg and the director of the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg. He is a fellow with CESifo (Munich). Previous positions include chairs at the Universities of Marburg, Kassel and Ruhr-University Bochum. Voigt has been a fellow at the Institutes for Advanced Study in Berlin, in Greifswald and at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on the economic effects of constitutions. More specifically, current research focuses on the economic effects of the judiciary. Voigt is one of the editors of Constitutional Political Economy and a member of various boards including those of Public Choice and the International Review of Law & Economics. Voigt has consulting experience with both the public and the private sector. He has worked with the World Bank, the European Commission and the OECD but also with the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT). The German newspaper Handelsblatt ranks Voigt among the Top-100 German speaking economists according to quality-weighted research output.
Deborah F. Shmueli is a full professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa. She is a co-Principal Investigator (PI) of the Minerva Center for Law and Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa (awarded 2013), and Head of the National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness, Israel (awarded 2018). She has served in numerous administrative capacities at the university including Department Head, Head of the PhD committee, Head of the Master’s committee, Head of a number graduate programs – Environmental Geography for Teachers; Water Studies; and currently Emergency and Disaster Management. She has published over 90 articles in refereed journals, monographs, books, and edited volumes on environmental policy, land, water, and planning issues. Strong foci are public sector and environmental conflict management, community and institutional capacity building and resilience, and public engagement. Particularly since the establishment of the Minerva Center, additional emphasis has been on policy aspects of emergency management. She has served as a consultant for master plans in Israel, facilitated collaborative stakeholder processes, conducted conflict assessments and workshops on consensus building and environmental/public sector conflict management, and evaluations of public programs. Over the last fifteen years she has worked intensively on land issues with Bedouin communities in the Negev, coauthored a book on the subject and served on a five-member Commission of Inquiry (appointed by the Israeli Ministry of Interior) into the desired municipal and spatial planning boundaries of the Bedouin communities in the Beer Sheva District. She currently serves as one of five permanent members of the Commission of Inquiry regarding Unification of Local Authorities, Changes in Areas of Jurisdiction of Local Authorities and the Redistribution of Resources among Local Authorities in the Haifa Metropolitan Area (Haifa Metropolitan Area Permanent Geographic Boundary Committee, Ministry of Interior). She is heading a number of comparative research projects regarding COVID-19 including issues of governance, policy and strategies, and well-being.
Shelly Aviv Yeini is a research fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa. She was a post-doctoral fellow in 2019-2021.
Danni Reches is a research assistant at the Center. She received her BA in Middle Eastern Studies from Leiden University, the Netherlands, during which she spent a semester at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Danni also holds a BA certificate (1 year) in Peace & Conflict Studies and an MA degree in Diplomacy (cum laude) from the University of Haifa. In this framework, she received a scholarship for outstanding students. Currently, Danni Reches is a PhD fellow at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) at the University of Haifa. Her PhD dissertation focuses on policy and media discourses of persons with a migration background from the MENA region to the EU. For this research, Danni receives a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In other research projects, Danni works on refugees and International Law in the EU during crises, including the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ and the Corona pandemic. She is invited as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Migration Law at Radboud University, the Netherlands, in the summer of 2021.
Dr. Olga Shteiman was a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Condition at the University of Haifa between 2015-2017 and at the Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Center for Spatial Analysis Research (UHCSISR), Department of Geography and Environmental Studies under the supervision of Prof. Deborah Shmueli and Dr. Anna Brook
Robert Neufeld is a research fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Condition. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center between 2019-2021. Robert’s research interests include international law, International Humanitarian law, Security law, Military law and emergency law. His research, conducted with Prof. Eli Salzberger and Prof. Shlomo Mizrahi, is focusing on the regulatory framework of the Israeli emergency laws.
Dr. Rottem Rosenberg-Rubins is an assistant professor at the College of Law and Business in Ramat-Gan and an adjunct professor at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. She additionally serves as the coordinator of the Israeli public committee for preventing and amending wrongful convictions, headed by former Supreme Court Justice Prof. Yoram Danziger. She is the author of ‘Crimmigration under International Protection: Constructing Criminal Law as Governmentality’ (Routledge, 2023) and has published several articles in leading law reviews. 
Denard Veshi was a PhD fellow with the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions between 2015-2018. His research areas include comparative law, medical law, refugee law and he is specialized in interdisciplinary research. Denard holds a M.Sc. (cum Laude) from University of Bologna, School of Law and M.A. in Insurance and Welfare Law from LIUC University. In 29.01.2016, he was awarded with a PhD title from the Joint International Doctoral Degree in “Law, Science and Technology” (LAST-JD) from University of Bologna (Italy), University of Turin (Italy), University Autonomous of Barcelona (Spain), Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), University of Tilburg (the Netherlands) and University of Luxemburg (Luxemburg). Moreover, in 19.11.2020, he was awarded with the PhD in European Doctorate in “Law & Economics” (EDLE) from Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands), University of Bologna (Italy), University of Hamburg (Germany) and University of Haifa (Israel). While he was the first PhD fellow awarded with the LAST-JD title, he is also the first PhD fellow funded by University of Haifa in the EDLE programme. Recently, his EDLE thesis was accepted to be published by Springer.
Tamar Megiddo was a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa in 2019-2020. She is also an adjunct professor at the College for Law and Business, and a teaching fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A graduate of the Hebrew University (LL.B. ’09, magna cum laude), she also holds an LL.M. (’12, with honors) and a J.S.D. (’16) from New York University School of Law. She has previously held several post-doctoral positions at both Tel Aviv University (at the GlobalTrust and TraffLab ERC research projects) and at the Hebrew University (Lady Davis). 
Dr. Ido Rosenzweig is the Director of Research (Belligerencies, Terrorism, and Cyber) and a Research Fellow at the Minerva Center for the Study of Law under Extreme Conditions, at the University of Haifa since 2014. He is a co-founder and Chairperson of ALMA – Association for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law. He is an international lawyer with both practical and academic expertise in international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
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Olga Frishman was a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Condition in 2015. She also taught the course “Contemporary Issues in Israel” at the Bonita Trust International LL.M. Program at Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law. Recently, she was a Golda Meir/Lady Davis post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University, Faculty of Law. Olga was also a researcher at the ERC-funded Global Trust Project at Tel Aviv University and a visiting researcher at the Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School. Olga holds a Ph.D. (at the direct program towards a Ph.D. in Law) from the Zvi Meitar Centre for Advanced Legal Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her dissertation, titled “Courts ant their Audiences: Organisational Identity, Organisational Images, Intended Images, and Institutional Isomorphism” was written under the supervision of Professor Eyal Benvenisti. She received her LL.B. (summa cum laude, 1st in class) and her B.A. (magna cum laude) in the field of management from Tel Aviv University as part of the Tel Aviv University Adi Lautman Monodisciplinary Program for Fostering Excellence. Olga clerked for Justice Asher Grunis at the Supreme Court of Israel. In 2013, Olga co-organized the “Law in Changing Transntational World” workshop, the first international workshop for young scholars at the Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law. She also co-organized the Theory and Philosophy of Law doctoral workshop. She had served as a teaching assistant for a variety of courses. Olga received the “Abba Even Scholarship for Diplomacy and International law” as well as the “Law, Transnational Space and Human Rights” research grant from the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law.
Anna Evangelidi was a postdoctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and at the Center for Cyber Law and Policy, University of Haifa in 2018-2019. Her postdoctoral research extended her doctoral thesis’ insights into UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) warfare and the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) by focusing on the rise of cyberspace as an increasingly prominent means and method of warfare. Anna holds a Law Degree (LLB Hons) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, an LLM degree in International Law from the University of Bristol, UK, and has recently completed her PhD studies at the City Law School, London, UK. During her doctoral studies, she taught International Humanitarian Law (IHL), European Union law and constitutional law. After obtaining her LLM, she worked as a legal consultant with the Chambers at the International Criminal Court, The Hague. Anna is a qualified lawyer in Greece and member of the Thessaloniki Bar (Greece). Her research areas and interests include the legal and ethical dilemmas generated by new weapon technologies; LOAC/IHL; international law and the use of force; international criminal law; international law and human rights; and international dispute settlement.
Rivka Brot was a post-doctoral fellow in the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law and the Geography and Environmental Studies Department between 2015-2017. In her research, she examined issues of law and order at the “Space of Exception”, focusing on the administration of law in Jewish Displaced Persons Camps in the American Occupation Zone in Germany (1945-1949). Her doctoral research, written at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University, examined the necessary relationship between law and the community it practices in, focusing on legal proceedings against Jews suspected of collaboration with the Nazis, held in Jewish DP camps and in the State of Israel. The dissertation was written under the supervision of Professor Leora Bilsky, faculty of law, Tel Aviv University, and Professor David Myers, former chair, history department UCLA. Rivka holds an LL.B and LL.M (cum laude) from Tel Aviv University. During her MA and doctoral studies, Rivka granted several scholarships and awards, among them a scholarship for distinguished LLM and PhD students of the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv University Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies and Dan David Young Researchers Scholarship Award. Rivka was a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, the United States holocaust Memorial Museum (2011) and a Pozen foundation fellow (2013-2014). Rivka published several articles regarding her research topics. In the year 2015-16 she will teach a seminar, “From Nuremberg to Jerusalem: The Holocaust in the Courtroom”, in the Jewish History Department, Haifa University.
Jian Jiang is a research fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions. Jian was a PhD fellow at the Centre from October 2017 to September 2019. He specializes in interdisciplinary research in law and economics, applying economic models to legal studies. Between 2021-2022 Jian received his PhD in law jointly awarded by Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Haifa, and University of Hamburg, as well as a PhD in economics from University of Bologna. Jian’s PhD project examined the issues of software vulnerabilities and cyberattacks, studying the impacts of law and regulation on the incentives of freelance hackers, and for his dissertation he received the distinction of summa cum laude. In addition, Jian has passed the CFA (Charted Financial Analyst) Level 1 exam and holds certificates of machine learning in AI (Artificial Intelligence).
Adv. Deborah Housen-Couriel’s Tel Aviv-based law practice focuses on global and Israeli cybersecurity law and regulation. In addition, she is special counsel for cybersecurity law to the New York law firm Zeichner, Ellman & Krause LLP. Her current work at the global level includes membership in the Advisory Board for the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise and participation as a Core Expert on the Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (MILAMOS) project. She was a member of the International Group of Experts that drafted the Tallin 2 manual on state activity in cyberspace; and of the ILA’s Study Group on Cybersecurity, Terrorism and International Law. Deborah also taught as a guest lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Exec Ed Program on Cybersecurity: The Intersection of Policy and Technology in 2016. In 2010-11, she co-chaired the National Cyber Initiative’s Policy and Regulation Committee, under the aegis of the Prime Minister’s Office; and served as a member of Israel’s National Cyber Bureau’s Public Committee on the Cyber Professions. Between 2007- 2014, Deborah was Director of the Wexner Foundation’s Israel Fellowship Program, which develops public leadership at the highest levels in Israel and the US together with the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to these positions, Deborah was Director of the Department of Regulation and International Treaties and served in the Director-General’s Bureau of the Israeli Ministry of Communications (1994-2005). She received her B.A. in History and Anthropology summa cum laude and with Phi Beta Kappa membership from Wellesley College and the École de Sciences Politiques in Paris; her LL.B. and LL.M (cum laude) from Hebrew University; and an MC-MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as a Wexner Foundation Fellow in 2000-2001. 
Ehud Segal coordinated the research on earthquake preparedness and response at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2015-2017. Ehud is an advanced PhD student at the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University. His dissertation is on accumulating policy changes demonstrated and analyzed through air pollution and road safety governmental policies in Israel. Ehud is also part of a research team devising a policy package for strengthening apartment buildings in the periphery of Israel against earthquakes. Ehud is an independent policy analyst and has prepared policy analyses and research in various fields including governmental HRM, environmental policy and road safety policy. He has master’s degree (magna cum laude) in public policy from the Hebrew University.
Adv. Anat Cabili was a research coordinator at the Center in 2013-14. Anat is a mediator, attorney, consultant and instructor on collaborative governance and public participation. She recently returned from the US with her family, after living there for six years. She was a Visiting Researcher at the MIT-Harvard Program on Public Disputes during 2007, and a member of the Harvard Mediation Program in 2007-2008. During 2008-2012 she co-led Creighton University’s Public Issues Collaboration Program which mission was to raise awareness and increase the use of collaborative governance and alternative dispute resolution processes in Nebraska and its neighboring states. She was also an instructor at the Werner Institute for Dispute Resolution at Creighton University. Before moving to the US she served as a Senior Legal and Policy Advisor to the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Justice, where she coordinated and supervised various high-scale legal and policy projects, among them the drafting of the Law on the Implementation of the Disengagement from Gaza.אן
Shira Meir was a research assistant at the center in 2015-2016, working on Cyber issues. She is a fourth-year student at the Law faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her academic majors are criminal law and philosophy. In addition, she was a TA at the Law faculty in Hebrew University for the Jurisprudence course, and will begin her legal internship in criminal law in the public sector this academic year. 
Aurelie Amidan is a former research assistant at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, researching international cyber law and regulation. Prior to her work at the Minerva Center, Aurelie served as a Duty Officer at the Situation Room under the Prime Minister’s Office’s National Cyber Bureau (2012-2014). At the NCB she was in charge of cyber crisis control, working with the Intelligence and Security community and taking part in shaping the NCSR and its practices. During her military service she was an officer in the 8200 intelligence unit. Aurelie holds a Cum Laude double undergraduate degree in Sociology, Anthropology and Accounting from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2012-2015).
Ilana Gimpelson was a research assistant at the Center in 2013-15. She completed her law studies at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law, as part of The Academic Atuda (Israeli version on ROTC) of the IDF (2013) and was a member of the editorial board of Haifa Law Review.
Yakov Goltsman is a research assistant at the Center as a law student at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. He is a member of the editorial staff of Mishpat U’Memshal, a Haifa University academic law journal, and a member of the Haifa University “Law, Technology, and Cyber” Law clinic.
Ido Lachman was a research assistant at the Center in 2013-15. He is a third-year law student at Haifa University Faculty of Law. He is a member of the editorial staff Mishpat U’ Mimshal, Haifa Law Faculty law review, and member of the “Sea Resources & Law”, Haifa Law Faculty law clinic. Recently he began working as a pre-intern at a Law-firm dealing with Commercial Agreement and family law.
מאיה מארק היתה פוסט דוקטורנטית במרכז מינרווה לשלטון החוק במצבי קיצון בשנים 2016-2018. במהלך שנים אלה מאיה ערכה מחקר אינטר-דיסציפלינארי של משפט והיסטוריה אשר בוחן את הפקודה למניעת טרור כמקרה מבחן לחקר שלטון החוק במצבי קיצון. 
