Oren Yiftachel

Oren Yiftachel

"Since 1988 I have won (solely or with a group) 18 grants for projects in Australia, Israel, Europe, India and USA totaling $740,000. Funding organizations included Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in the US, the US Institute of Peace, the Australian Research Council (ARC), Indian Ocean Center of Peace Studies, the Israeli Science Foundation (twice), Center for Regional Development, the Albert Einstein Fund, the Lady Davies Trust, the Ministries of Science, Immigration Absorption and Economic and Planning in Israel, Van Leer Institute, the Israeli Science Foundation (twice); The Eshkol Grant, and the Sapir Center for Social and Economic Research...

"In the period 1999-2004 I initiated and became first editor-in-chief of the international refereed journal Hagar: International Social Science Research, which is now in its sixth volume with a new editorial team (see: http://www.bgu.ac.il/hagar/) In the past, I served for six years as the editor of the journal Geography Research Forum (with Prof. A. Meir). At present I am an editorial board member of the following international journals: Planning Theory (essay editor), MERIP – Mid-East Research and Information (contributing editor); Society and Space (Environment and Planning D), Cities, Journal of Planning Literature, Urban Studies, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, MIT Journal of Middle East Studies (MITEJMES), and Israel Studies Forum."


 * Director, B'Tselem
 * Contributing Editor, Middle East Research and Information Project

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