Professor Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler

Prof. Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler is an Associate Professor at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University. She is co-director of the WIT project. Her work focuses on the processes underpinning right-wing extremism and political violence, with a particular emphasis on Israel. Relying on surveys and field experiments, she has written on some of the prominent features of political extremism and the psycho-political reactions to war, violence, and terrorism. Her recent book (with Cas Mudde), The Israeli Settler Movement (Cambridge University Press), analyzes the settler movement and its past, present, and future impact on Israeli politics and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Alongside academic articles, Prof. Hirsch-Hoefler publishes at outlets such as Haaretz, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs.

Professor Gilad Hirschberger 

Gilad Hirschberger is professor of social and political psychology at Reichman University, Israel, associate dean of the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, and co-director of the WIT project. His work focuses on collective existential threats, and on how threat perceptions influence and shape political cognitions. Prof. Hirschberger also conducts research aiming to define the parameters of a sustainable agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. Aside from publishing over 100 academic articles and book chapters, he occasionally writes for magazines and newspapers in Israel (Haaretz, YNet, Alaxon) and the US (Washington Post).  His book Group survival: The psychology of collective threat is forthcoming in Cambridge University Press.​

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