Israel

European Research Network on Philanthropy

Countries

Tel Aviv University
Buchmann Faculty of Law
Institute for Law and Philanthropy
Website: Institute for Law and Philanthropy

Galia Feit
The Institute for Law and Philanthropy
Faculty of Law / Tel Aviv University
email: gfeit@ post.tau.ac.il

Nissan Limor
The Institute for Law and Philanthropy
Faculty of Law / Tel Aviv University
email: nissan1@ tauex.tau.ac.il

Yoram Margalioth
The Institute for Law and Philanthropy
Faculty of Law / Tel Aviv University
email: margalio@ post.tau.ac.il

Guy Schultz
The Institute for Law and Philanthropy
Faculty of Law / Tel Aviv University
email: schultz@ tauex.tau.ac.il

Individual members

Hagai Katz
The Israeli Center for Third Sector Research,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Email: katzh@ bgu.ac.il

Hillel Schmid
Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israël
Paul Baerwald School of Social Work
Hebrew University
Email: hillels@ mscc.huji.ac.il

Ilana F. Silber
Bar-Ilan University
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Email: ifsilber@ mail.biu.ac.il

Current research projects on philanthropy in Israël

The Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, established in 2006 in cooperation with the Israel-Joint Distribution Committee, aims to enhance existing knowledge in the field and to provide an appropriate academic framework for achieving that goal. The Center is engaged in efforts to develop and promote basic and applied research knowledge on philanthropy in Israel and in Jewish communities throughout the world. Current research projects on philanthropy are:

Michal Almog-Bar:

– Policy initiatives towards the Third Sector in comparative perspective.

– Advocacy activities in nonprofit human service organizations.

– Advocacy by nonprofit organizations and their influence upon public policy making.

– Philanthropic foundations and their influence upon social policy making processes.

– Nonprofit organizations providing social services and the creation of an alternative welfare sphere.

Luisa Levi D’Ancona Modena Ph.D:

– Jewish philanthropy in Europe. Changes and challenges

– History of Jewish philanthropy in Italy

– Philanthropy and Jewish identity

Ritov Ilana:

– Psychological determinants of motivation for philanthropic activity: Identifiability effect in different social categorizations the Israeli society

Avishag Rudich:

– Giving Israel- an integrated picture of Israel’s philanthropic arena.

– New patterns of philanthropy in Israel.

– The impact of the Israeli philanthropists on the Israeli nonprofit organization.

– The relationship between public and private funding of Israeli nonprofits and it’s relationship to civic engagement.

– Israeli philanthropic Foundations

Hillel Schmid Ph.D:

– Relationships between Government and for-profit and nonprofit organizations delivering human and social services.

– Relationships between nonprofit organizations providing personal and social services and the for- profit sector.

– The political activity of nonprofit organizations delivering human and social services.

– Leadership styles and leadership change in voluntary nonprofit organizations.

– New patterns of philanthropy in Israel.

Current state of Giving Research in Israel

Information on data and current state of giving research in Israël will follow shortly.

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Katz H., “Strengthening the Conceptual Foundations of Civil Society Operationalizations: Discussing Heinrich’s ‘Studying Civil Society Across the World”, Journal of Civil Society, 2(2) , 2007, 173-177.

Katz H., “Gramsci, Hegemony, and Global Civil Society Networks”, Voluntas, 17(4) , 2007, 333-348.

Katz H.,Elon Y.,Raviv E., Levinson E.,Yogev H.,Yaacobi M. and B. Gidron, “Third Sector Organizations During the Second Lebanon War – Advantages, Limitations and Relations with Government”, Civil Society and Third Sector in Israel, 1(1) , 2007, 39-64, in Hebrew.

Rudich A., (2008) The Philanthropic Relationships Between Two Social Welfare Departments and Voluntary Bodies – A New Arena for Funding Welfare Services? Masters’ thesis supervised by Dr. Uri Yanai. The HebrewUniversity. (Hebrew).

Rudich A., (2007). Not Only Love of Mankind–Philanthropy: A Research Overview. Jerusalem: The Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel, The HebrewUniversity.

Shemer O., & Schmid, H. (2006). Toward a redefinition of community partnership: A Three-dimensional approach. Hevra Verevaha. 26(3), 327-354.

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Schmid, H. (2007). Childern and youth at risk in Israel: Findings and reconnemdations to improve their well being. Children and Youth Services Review, 29(8), 1114-1128.

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Schmid, H., Bar, M., & Nirel, R. (2008). Advocacy roles of nonprofit human service organizations: Implications for policy. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 37(4), 581-602.

Schmid, H. & Blit-Cohen, E. (2009). University and social involement at the neighbourhood level: implications for social work education. Journal of Teaching in Social Work. 29, 1-20.

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