Postdoctoral fellow at the Jackson school of international studies, University of Washington, Seattle. I specialize in law & society and international law, with a particular focus on Israel/Palestine and the intersection of criminal justice, national security and human rights. My doctoral dissertation titled “Citizen-Enemies” explores how military courts inside Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories were used to construct and manage multiple, fluid and scaled political categories of citizens and enemies. Contributing to the global study of military courts and tribunals, I conceptualize the doctrine of emergency powers as a third and hybrid model for security prosecutions, emanating in colonial governmentality. A longtime Israeli human rights lawyer, I completed my PhD in Law at Tel-Aviv University. I spent four years at UC Berkeley as a visiting scholar in the Center for middle Eastern Studies and the Center for the Study of Law and society. I holds a Master in International Human Rights Law, with distinction, from the University of Oxford, and an LLB from Tel-Aviv University. I am the co-founder of Gun Free Kitchen Tables, the first Israeli gender-related gun control initiative, and I worked with various NGOs in Israel on prevention of torture, Palestinians’ rights, prisoners’ rights, gender, refugees and asylum seekers. I litigated high profile cases in the Israeli Supreme Court, appeared on national media and published op-eds and blog posts on various platforms.

Law

Middle East/Near East Studies

Human Rights

Colonialism

Security Studies

Palestinian Studies

Israel Studies

Israel

Palestine

Hebrew (native)

Arabic (intermediate)

English (fluent)

French (intermediate)