Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel

Hagai Boas has published on brain death, organ transplantations, and bioethics. Since 2012, he has been the program director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. Beginning in October 2017, he will be the head of the Science and Technology section at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Yael Hashiloni-Dolev is a sociologist of health and illness, and a member of Israel's National Bioethics Council. Her areas of interest include new reproductive technologies, genetics, gender, bioethics, contemporary parenthood, and posthumous reproduction. She has authored two books: A Life (Un)Worthy of Living: Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany (2007) and The Fertility Revolution (2013, in Hebrew). Nadav Davidovitch is an epidemiologist and public health physician. He is a Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Systems Management at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His current research deals with health policy, health inequities, health and immigration, environmental health, and public health history and ethics. Dani Filc is a Full Professor at the Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University. He is the author of Hegemony and Populism in Israel (2006, in Hebrew), Circles of Exclusion: The Politics of Health-Care in Israel (2009) and The Political Right in Israel (2013). Shai Lavi is a Professor of Law at Tel-Aviv University, where he is also director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. He is also the Executive Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His book, The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States (2009), won the 2006 Distinguished Book Award in sociology of law from the American Sociological Association.