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Animal Sciences Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition Entomology Environmental Economics and Management
Plant Pathology and Microbiology Plant Science and Genetics Soil and Water Sciences Veterinary Medicine Administration

Dr. Nurit Argov-Argaman

Senior Lecturer
Animal Sciences, Room: 107
08-9489618
argov.nurit@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Metabolism and lactation biology
Dr. Lior David

Senior Lecturer
Animal Sciences, Room: 002
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489038 Fax: +972–(0)8–9489577
lior.david@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
genetics and evolution of complex traits in fish and yeast.
Dr. Oren Forkosh.

Assistant Professor
Computational Methods for Animal Psychology and Welfare
972-(0)8-948-9865
972-(0)54-637-8670
oren.forkosh@mail.huji.ac.il
Lab Site
We use machine-learning to study positive psychology in animals and in humans. Read more about Oren Forkosh.
Prof. Aharon Friedman

Full Professor, Dean 2009-2013
HU Vice President 2013-2016
Ron Barbaro Chair in Veterinary Medicine
Animal Sciences, Room: 209
Chairman, The HU Youth Division
phone: (972) 8 9489027 fax: (972) 8 9489869
ronnie.friedman@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
ResearchGate
Immunology
Prof. Orna Halevy

Full Professor
Animal Sciences, Room: 101
Phone: 972-8-9489204 | Fax: 972-8-9489337
orna.halevy@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Cell Biology, Muscle Development
Prof. Berta Levavi-Sivan

Full Professor
Vice Rector
Animal Sciences, Room: 219
Tel (office): 972-8-9489988 Tel (lab): 972-8-9489308 Fax: 972-8-9489307
berta.sivan@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Fish Reproduction
Prof. Sameer J. Mabjeesh

Associate Professor
Animal Sciences, Room: 109
Phone: 972-8-9489314 | Fax: 972-8-9489879
sameer.mabjeesh@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Ruminants Nutrition and Lactation Physiology
Prof. Rina Meidan

Full Professor
Animal Sciences, Room: 308
Phone: 972-8-9489394
rina.meidan@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Reproductive Endocrinology
Dr. Erez Mills

Senior Lecturer
Animal Sciences, Room: 306
Phone: +972-08-9489576
erez.mills@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Gut Bacteriology
Prof. Zvi Roth

Associate Professor
Animal Sciences, Room: 214
Phone: 972-8-9489103
z.roth@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Reproductive Physiology
Prof. Israel Rozenboim

Full Professor
Animal Sciences, Room: 301
Phone: 972-8-9489395
israel.rozenboim@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Avian Physiology
Dr. Sharon Schlesinger

Senior Lecturer
Animal Sciences, Room: 211
Phone: +972-8 9489426
sharon.shle@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Stem Cells
Prof. Jaap van Rijn

Full Professor
Animal Sciences, Room: 005
Tel (office): +972-8 9489302 Tel (lab): +972-8 9489032 Fax: + 972-8-9489024
jaap.vanrijn@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Aquatic microbiology &Water quality control in fish culture systems
Prof. Zehava Uni

Full Professor
Animal Sciences, Room: 114
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489205 | Fax: +972–(0)8–9476887
zehava.uni@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Poultry Nutrition

Prof. Hagai Abeliovich

Associate Professor
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489060. Fax: +972–(0)8–9476189.
hagai.abeliovich@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Yeast Cell Biology and Biotechnology
Dr. Anna Aronis

Senior Teacher
Biochemistry
Prof. Ido Braslavsky

Associate Professor
Phone: +972-54-8820955
ido.braslavsky@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Antifreeze proteins (AFPs)
Dr. Merav Fichman

Senior Lecturer
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489691.
merav.fichman@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Computational Methodologies for Designing Bioactive Compounds
Prof. Oren Froy

Associate Professor
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489746.
oren.froy@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Biological clock rhythms & nutrition, longevity and inate immune system
Dr. Ido Goldstein

Senior Lecturer
+972–(0)8–9489626
ido.goldstein@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Nutrigenomics, liver biology and gene expression
Dr. Zvi Hayouka

Senior Lecturer
+972–8–9489019
zvi.hayouka@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Novel antimicrobial agents for food applications
Prof. Zohar Kerem

Associate Professor
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489278. Fax: +972–(0)8–9476189.
zohar.kerem@mail.huji.ac.il
Beneficial natural products in edible plants, Natural antioxidants
Prof. Masha Niv

Associate Professor
Vice Dean for Research and Development
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489664
masha.niv@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Molecular Recognition of Taste and Smell
Prof. Efrat Monsonego Ornan

Associate Professor
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489712.
efrat.mo@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Skeletal Development Through Endochondral Ossification
Prof. Ram Reifen

Full Professor
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489020.
ram.reifen@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Pediatric and maternal nutrition, allergy and inflammatory disease
Prof. Bertha (Betty) Schwartz

Full Professor
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489007. Fax: +972–(0)8–9363208.
betty.schwartz@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Nutrition and cancer, nutrition and reproductive hormonal systems
Dr. Roni Shapira

Senior Lecturer
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489818. Fax: +972–(0)8–9476189.
roni.shapira1@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Characterization or bacteriocin, application in food systems
Dr. Aliza Stark

Senior Teacher
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489612. Fax: +972–(0)8–9363208.
aliza.stark@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Nutrition education, health promotion, improving nutritional and therapeutic value of foods
Prof. Oren Tirosh

Associate Professor
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489623.
oren.tirosh@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Elucidation of cellular and molecular action of dietary antioxidants
Prof. Aron Troen

Associate Professor
Tel: +972–(0)8–9489476.
aron.troen@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Nutritional Neuroscience, prevention of cerebrovascular disease and dementia

Dr. Ziv Bar-Shira

Senior Lecturer
Technological changes in agriculture, Pricing of irrigation water
08-9489140
Ziv.Barshira@mail.huji.ac.il
publications
Dr. Avraham Ebenstein

Senior Lecturer
Environmental economics, health economics, and economic demography
08-948-9228
ebenstein@mscc.huji.ac.il
personal site
Dr. Eyal Ert

Senior Lecturer
Adaptive decision-making, risk-taking and risk perception
08-9489375
Eyal.Ert@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Dr. Dizza Bursztyn

Senior Teacher
Statistics
08-9489387
dizza.bursztyn@mail.huji.ac.il
personal site
Prof. Israel Finkelshtain

Associate Professor
Environmental Economics and Management
08-9489255
Israel.Finkelshtain@mail.huji.ac.il
Prof. Aliza Fleischer

Full Professor
Vice Dean for International Affairs
Economics of tourism, Rural tourism, Economic value of open space & agricultural landscape
08-9489144
aliza.f@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Prof. Amir Heiman

Full Professor
Pre-Purchase Risk-Reduction Marketing Mechanisms, Branding and promotion of agricultural products
08-9489143
amir.heiman@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Dr. Iddo Kan

Senior Lecturer
Economic analysis of agricultural land use
08-9489233
iddo.kan@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Prof. Ayal Kimhi

Associate Professor
Intergenerational Transfers and Farm Succession, Structural Changes in the Farm Sector
08-9489376
ayal.kimhi@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Dr. Guni Orshan

Senior Teacher
Game theory and its applications
08-9489142
Guni.Orshan@mail.huji.ac.il
department site
Dr. Ohad Raveh

Lecturer
Natural Resource Economics, Public Economics, International Economics
08-9489373
ohad.raveh@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Prof. Avi Simhon

Associate Professor
Technological change, macroeconomics, economic growth and development economics.
08-9489400
asimhon@huji.ac.il
personal page
Prof. Yacov Tsur

Full Professor
Natural resource economics under uncertainty, water resources and resource management under catastrophic threats
08-9489372
yacov.tsur@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page

Dr. Jonathan D. Bohbot

Senior Lecturer
Tel: 08-9489396
jonathan.bohbot@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Neurobiology of Insect Olfaction
Prof. Moshe Coll

Full Professor
Tel: 08-9489153 | Fax: 08-9466768
Lab: 08-9489370 | 08-9489858
moshe.coll@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Insect Ecology
Dr. Yael Heifetz

Senior Lecturer
Tel: 08-9489313 | Fax: 08-9466768
yael.heifetz@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Initiation of fertilization in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
Dr. Yael Mandelik

Senior Lecturer
Tel: 08-9489224 | Fax: 08-9466768
yael.mandelik@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Conservation, biodiversity, ecosystem functions and land-use change, insect pollinators and pollination
Dr. Shai Morin

Associate Professor
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs
Tel: 08-9489365 | Lab: 08-9489271 | Fax: 08-9466768
shai.morin@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Ecological and evolutionary genetics, insect-plant and insect-environment interactions Read more about Shai Morin
Dr. Philippos Papathanos

Senior Lecturer
p.papathanos@gmail.com
Personal Site
Engineering Insect Biology
Prof. Sharoni Shafir

Full Professor
Tel: 08-9489401 | Fax: 08-9489842
sharoni.shafir@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Honey bee biology, decision-making in bees, pollination
Prof. Boaz Yuval

Full Professor
Head of Department
Tel:08-9489419 | Fax: 08-9466768
boaz.yuval@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Behavioral ecology of insects, Insect microbe interactions, Integrated pest management

Prof. Saul Burdman

Associate Professor
Lauterman building, office 16
Tel: 08-9489369 | Fax: 08-9466794
saul.burdman@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Google Scholar Profile
Basic and applied aspects of plant-bacteria interactions Read more about Saul Burdman
Dr. Shay Covo

Senior Lecturer
Lauterman building
Tel: 08-9489160 | Fax: 08-9466794
shay.covo@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Drug resistance in fungi, Genome instability and chromosome biology in fungal plant pathogens Read more about Shay Covo
Dr. Jonathan Friedman

Senior Lecturer
Building A, Room 2312
08-9489161
yonatan.friedman@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Google Scholar Profile
Microbial community ecology and evolution Read more about Jonathan Friedman
Prof. Yitzhak Hadar

Full Professor
Aaronsohn building
Tel: 08-9489935 | Fax: 08-9468785
yitzhak.hadar@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Environmental Microbiology, Recycling Municipal and Agricultural Waste, Degradation of lignocellulose Read more about Yitzhak Hadar
Dr. Yael Helman

Senior Lecturer
Lauterman building, Room 4
Tel: 08-9489218 | Fax: 08-9466794
yael.helman@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Microbial interactions in the rhizosphere, Biological control of plant pathogens, Mechanisms of bacterial stress responses. Read more about Yael Helman
Prof. Edouard Jurkevitch

Full Professor
Head of Department
Lauterman building
Tel: 08-9489167 | Fax: 08-9466794
edouard.jurkevitch@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Predatory bacteria, Bacteria-tephritid fruit flies symbioses, Molecular profiling of soil microbial populations Read more about Edouard Jurkevitch
Dr. Nadav Kashtan

Senior Lecturer
Lauterman building
Tel: 08-9489450 | Fax: 08-9466794
nadav.kashtan@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Using systems biology to study ecology and evolution of microbes Read more about Nadav Kashtan
Dr. Asaf Levy

Senior Lecturer
Animal Science Bldg. (Ariowitcsh) room 313
Office: +972-8-9489596, Lab: +972-8-9489595
alevy@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Google Scholar Profile
Plant microbiome gene function and inter-bacterial warfare Read more about Asaf Levy
Dr. Marganit Levy

Senior Lecturer
Lauterman building
Tel: 08-9489162 | Fax: 08-9466794
maggie.levy@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Researcher of the Month
Glucosinolate accumulation, Biological control of Botrytis cinerea

Read more about Marganit Levy
Prof. Oded Yarden

Full Professor
Aaronsohn building
Tel: 08-9489298/315 | Fax: 08-9468785
oded.yarden@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Molecular mechanisms of fungal growth and development, cell wall biosynthesis, regulation of hyphal elongation and branching

Prof. Shahal Abbo

Full Professor
Crop evolution in the Near East, Genetics and breeding of chickpea.
08-9489443
shahal.abbo@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Prof. Zach Adam

Full Professor
Proteolysis in Chloroplasts.
08-948-9921
zach.adam@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Dr. Idan Efroni

Senior Lecturer
Regeneration and adventitious root development.
idan.efroni@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
lab site
Dr. Rivka Elbaum

Senior Lecturer
Hygroscopic Movement, Plant Silicification, Seed dispersal.
08-9489335
rivka.elbaum@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Dr. Yonatan Elkind

Senior Lecturer
Application of genetic engineering to plant breeding and physiology.
08-9489246
yonatan.elkind@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Dr. Leor Eshed-Williams

Lecturer
Meristem development and the mechanism of regeneration, mainly from the chromatin perspective.
08-9489964
leor.williams@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Dr. Tamar Friedlander

Senior Lecturer
Computational - theoretical approaches to study self-incompatibility in plant fertilization and general principles underlying the evolution and organization of gene regulatory networks
08-9489684
tamar.friedlander@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Dr. José Grünzweig

Senior Lecturer
Human impacts on plants, ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles at organismic, community and ecosystem scale, esp. trees and shrub.
08-9489782
jose.gruenzweig@mail.huji.ac.il
personal site
lab site
Dr. Smadar Harpaz-Saad

Senior Lecturer
Plant cell wall, cellulose biosynthesis, genes in cell wall function, Seed mucilage to study cell wall metabolism, Fruit tree physiology.
08-9489264
smadar.harpaz@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Dr. Ittai Herrmann

Senior Lecturer
Remote & Proximal Sensing, Precision Agriculture, Phenomics
Ittai.Herrmann@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Prof. Menachem Moshelion

Associate Professor
Mechanisms controlling water-use efficiency, water-potential homeostasis and productivity under normal and abiotic stress.
08-9489781
menachem.moshelion@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Dr. Assaf Mosquna

Senior Lecturer
Plant response to environmental stress, novel plant hormones and growth regulators.
054-4506508
assaf.mosquna@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Prof. Naomi Ori

Full Professor
Mechanisms underlying plasticity of plant development and patterning, leaf, flower and fruit development.
08-9489605
naomi.ori@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Prof. Zvi Peleg

Prof.
Plant response to abiotic stress combinations, abiotic stress tolerance in crop-plants, Quantitative genetics of yield.
08-9489638
zvi.peleg@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Dr. Shilo Rosenwasser

Senior Lecturer
Redox regulation of metabolism, stress acclimation, and cell death in photosynthetic organisms.
08-9489735/737
shilo.rosenwaser@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Prof. Alon Samach

Associate Professor
Molecular mechanisms involved in plant developmental regulation, specifically the transition to flowering.
08-9489812
alon.samach@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Prof. Yehoshua Saranga

Associate Professor
Physiological and genetic aspects of crop adaptation to stress conditions, Sustainable agriculture, Crops for arid regions.
08-9489040
shuki.saranga@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Dr. Efrat Sheffer

Senior Lecturer
Linking individual plant strategies to ecosystem processes. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in natural plant communities.
08-9489513
efrat.sheffer@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
lab site
Prof. Oded Shoseyov

Full Professor
Enzymes and proteins that modify and bind to polysaccharides. Plant cell wall synthesis. Plant biotechnology
08-9489084
oded.shoseyov@mail.huji.ac.il
Oded Shoseyov lab - NanoBioMimetic
Publications
Department page
Prof. Alexander Vainstein

Full Professor
Identification of novel aroma genes, Metabolic engineering of plants and yeast, Site-specific genome modification and genetic engineering in plants
08-9489082/0
alexander.vainstein@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Prof. David Weiss

Full Professor
Hormone signal transduction and responses (gibberellin and cytokinin).
08-9489436
david.weiss@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page
Prof. Shmuel Wolf

Full Professor
Factors affecting productivity, yield accumulation and quality of vegetable and field crops, Phloem genomics, Seed development.
08-9489428
Shmulik.Wolf@mail.huji.ac.il
personal page

Prof. Benny Chefetz

Full Professor
Dean
Lubell building, office 23
+972 (8) 948-9384, + 972 54 8820492
benny.chefetz@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal site
Environmental Chemistry, Pollutants of Emerging Concern, Soil Chemistry
Dr. Yair Mau

Senior Lecturer
Lubell building, office 19
+972 8 948 9386
yair.mau at mail.huji.ac.il
Personal site
environmental modeling, ecohydrology, soil degradation, desertification Read more about Yair Mau
Prof. Yael Mishael

Associate Professor
Head of Department
Lubell building, office 31
972-8-9489171
yael.mishael@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal site
Interactions between soil, water and vegetation in drylands, soil salinization/sodification, dynamics of nitrogen in the soil.
Dr. Tamara Polubesova

Senior Scientist
Lubell building, office 18
08-9489912
Tamara.Polubesova@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal site
Interface reactions in soils, physical chemistry of soils and clays, transformations of natural organic matter and pollutants in soils
Dr. Nimrod Schwartz

Senior Lecturer
Lubell building, office 24
+972 (0)8 948 9288
nimrod.schwartz@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Soil-root interactions and water and nutrient uptake, Spectral induced polarization for non-invasive detection of rhizosphere processes.
Moshe Shenkar

Associate Professor
Head of Teaching Committee
Lubell building, office 42
08-9489349
moshe.shenker@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal site
Soil chemistry and soil fertility, related to plant nutrition and environmental aspects
Dr. Eran Tas

Senior Lecturer
Lubell building, office 15
08-9489139
eran.tas@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal site
agro-meteorology, atmosphric chemistry, air-pollution, modelling, field measurements
Prof. Rony Wallach

Full Professor
Lubell building, room 170
972-8-9489170
rony.wallach@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal site
Formation of water repellent soils by irrigation, Effect of contact angle on water flow in soils, Plant-water relationships, Irrigation control.