Professional Activities
2015+ Co-Editor, Linguistic Landscape, An International Journal
2013+ Membre du Conseil Scientifique International de Socio
2010+ MReviewer for Social Problems
2008+ Member of the Council of the Cooperation Union
Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment
2008+ Head
Commission for Renewal Processes and Conflict Management
Council of the Cooperation Union
2007+ Head
Committee of accreditation of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Academic
College of Ashkelon
Council for Higher Education
2007, May Directeur d’Etudes associe, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
2006+ Scientific Council of Kesher, J-nal of Media and Comm. History in Israel and the Jewish World
2005-6 Visiting Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institut Martin Buber
2005+ Past President, International Institute of Sociology
2004+ Member of the Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The International Scope Review
2003+ Vice-editor, International Review of Sociology Member of the Academic Committee, Beit Berl College
2003 Head of the Israel Prize Committee in Sociology (appointed by the Minister of Education and Culture)
2002-2004
Member of the Academic Committee of the Open University
2002-2003
Chair, The Public Committee for the Kibbutz (appointed by the Israeli Government) General Editor of the “Jewish Identities in a Changing World” series, at Brill Academic Publishers Member, Committee of publications, Ben-Gurion Research Center in Sde Boker
2001+
Co-founder and co-director of the Klal-Israel Project
2001+
President, International Institute of Sociology Chair of the Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society
2000+ Collaborator, Année Francophone Internationale
1997-2001
Vice-President, The International Institute of Sociology
1997-1999
Organizer and Chairperson of the 34th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology – Tel-Aviv, July 11-15, 19999
1997-1998 Organizing committee of the Tel-Aviv Conference: 50 years of Statehood, January 25-27, Tel-Aviv University
1993-2001
Chair of the Scientific Board of the Israel Studies Series, published by Transaction, New Jersey
1993-1997
President, Israel Society of Sociology
25.11.1996-25.12.1996
Professeur Invité: Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Jussieu
1996+
Member of the Editorial Board of Ethnic and Racial Studies
1996-1998 Head of the PhD students’ Committee, Faculty of the Social Sciences, TAU
1995-1996 Member of the Council of the Research Authority, Tel-Aviv University Evalutor for the Abraham Fund, New York
1994-1998 Member of the Appointment Committee of the School of Education, TAU Member of the Board of the Research Committee (05) on Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations – The International Sociological Association
1994+ Member, Academic Board of the Center for Language Policy Research, Bar-Ilan U. Member of the International Biographical Association Book reviewer for Contemporary Jewry
1994 Chairperson of the of the Joint Steering Committee of the Netherlands-Israel Research Programme Directeur d’Etude Associe, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
1993+ Member – Joint Steering Committee of the Netherlands-Israel Research Programme Chair of the Tel Aviv Committee of the Peretz Naftali Award in Social Sciences Referee for Ethnic and Racial Studies
1993-1998 Coeditor of the Israeli Social Sciences Research
1993+ Chair, the Board of Israel Studies (published by Transaction, NJ, USA)
1993-1994 Head of the Higher Committee for the Social Sciences, Ministry of Education
1993 (July) Invited by the China Academy of Social Sciences, in Beijing and Shanghai
1992+ Referee for International Migration Member of the Academic Advisory Board of Sociological Papers Reviewer for Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
1992 (Summer) Invited Scholar, Rich Seminar, Oxford Hebrew Center for Postgraduate Education
1991-1993 Consultant to the International Peace Research Association/ Commission on Peace Building in the Middle-East
1990-4 International Research Team: Images of Europe, Association for the Club of Rome Head of the Yad Tabenkin Research Project: The Kibbutz at the Turn of the Century
1989-90 Visiting Scholar, The Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies
1986-8 Member of the Higher Committee for Social Sciences, Ministry of Education
1984-1985 Visiting Professor, Stanford University, Department of Sociology Directeur d’Etude Associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
1981-1984 Executive Committee of the Israel Society of Sociology
1975 + Board member of the Centre Inter-Universitaire d’Etudes sur Israel Board member of Connaissance d’Israel, Belgium