Master’s thesis: The Social Cost of the Migration to Israel Supervisors: Dr. Moshe Hartman.Doctoral dissertation: Aspirations for Social Mobility among Youth of Disadvantaged Strata Supervisors: Prof. Eppie Yaar
Ford Foundation Research grant no. 13, received trough the Israel Foundation Trustees, 1985‑1986.
The Israeli Council for Research and Development, 1985. 1987.
The Pinhas Sapir Center for Development, Tel Aviv University. 1984, 1986, 1987, 1995.
The Sapir Fund of Mifal Hapais Foundation. 1987.
The Golda Meir Institute for Research. 1989.
The Research Unit of Sociology of Education and the Community at Tel Aviv University. 1986- 2007.
The Israel Ministry of Education and Culture. 1990, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2003.
Tel Aviv University research fund. 2001
Israel Science Foundation, 1999, 2004, 2008, 2013, 2017.
Gandyr Foundation, 2011.
Rothschild Caesarea Foundation, 2013
Head, The David Horowitz Institute, Tel Aviv University, 2001 – 2003.
Senate member (elected) 2006-2010
Member of Editorial board: Israel Social Science Research (1997-1999), Israeli Sociology (1997-2002), Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (2003 – 2006), Sociology of Education (2005-2010)
Occasional Reviewer for: American Sociological Review, Sociology of Education, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Teachers College Record, Social Psychology of Education, Sex Roles, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility; Social Science Research, Social Forces, American Educational Research Journal, Megamot, Israeli Sociology, Dappim, Theory and Criticism, Israel Science Foundation; Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science, Sapir Foundation, Spenser Foundation, Ford Foundation, The Spanish Journal of Psychology. German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), BSF (Bi-National Israeli-American foundation).
Panel member: European Research Council, advanced grant. 2015-2016.
Member of the Evaluation Committee of the Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2017.
Panel chair: European Research Council, advanced grant. 2017-2018.