organizational affiliation

Dr. Guni Orshan

In Memoriam

Environmental Economics and Management

IN MEMORY OF

Dr. Guni Orshan

Passed in 2022

Game theory and its applications

Prof. Ayal Kimhi

Associate Professor

Sir Henry d'Avigdor Goldsmid Professor of Agricultural Economics

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489376

ayal.kimhi@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

The economics of family farms; Public policy in agriculture, labor markets, education and aging. Structural changes in the farm sector; Farmers' time allocation, exit and retirement decisions; Intergenerational transfers and farm succession.

Prof. Iddo Kan

Associate Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489233

iddo.kan@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Environmental and natural resource economics, land-use modeling, water and waste management, political economics.

Prof. Amir Heiman

Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489143

amir.heiman@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Pre-Purchase Risk-Reduction Marketing Mechanisms, Branding and promotion of agricultural products.

Prof. Aliza Fleischer

Emerita

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489144

aliza.f@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Economics of tourism, Rural tourism, Economic value of open space & agricultural landscape.

Prof. Israel Finkelshtain

Associate Professor

Sam M. Cohodas Chair in Agricultural Economics

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489255

Israel.Finkelshtain@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Environmental Economics and Management.

Prof. Eyal Ert

Associate Professor

Head, Hospitality, Food resources, and Tourism Management Program

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489375

Eyal.Ert@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Choice Prediction Competitions

Adaptive decision-making, risk-taking and risk perception.

Dr. Avraham Ebenstein

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489228 | Fax +972-(0)8-9466267

ebenstein@mscc.huji.ac.il

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Environmental economics, health economics, development economics and economic demography.

Dr. Dizza Bursztyn

Senior Teacher

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489387 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9466267

dizza.bursztyn@mail.huji.ac.il

Bio-statistics, Para-clinical statistics, Design of experiments, Computer experiments.

Dr. Ziv Bar-Shira

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489140

Ziv.Barshira@mail.huji.ac.il

Agricultural production under uncertainty (applications to insurance), Technological change in agriculture, Non-parametric methods in economics.

Prof. Shahal Abbo

Professor

Jacob and Rachel Liss Chair in Agronomy

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489443

shahal.abbo@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Crop evolution in the Near East, Genetics and breeding of chickpea

Under just the right light, ice turns into a twisting labyrinth

Ice absorbs near-infrared light more efficiently than does water, triggering the formation of intricate patterns.

Evolution of grain yield

Decoding the genetic basis of floret fertility in wheat - A high grain yield is undoubtedly a desirable trait in cereal crops. Floret fertility is a key factor which determines the number of grains per inflorescence of cereals such as bread wheat or barley. Nonetheless, until recently little was known about its genetic basis. Whilst investigating floret fertility, a group of researchers have now discovered the locus Grain Number Increase 1 (GNI1), an important contributor to floret fertility. A writeup from Science Daily of an international collaboration, including researchers from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, to decode the genetic basis of floret fertility in wheat.