Full professors represent 35% of all petition signers. Department heads, endowed chairs, and emeritus scholars appear among the 1,434.
OLAM RESEARCH · WHO SIGNED SERIES
Among the 1,434 Israeli faculty who signed political petitions: 67 full professors, 45 doctors, across all eight universities. The most established scholars in Israeli academia.
This analysis draws from the Who Signed? database. Of 1,434 signers, 1,174 have title data: 755 listed as Prof., 419 as Dr.
By the Numbers
| Title | Count | % of Titled Signers |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. (Full Professor) | 755 | 64% |
| Dr. | 419 | 36% |
| Total with title data | 1,174 | 100% |
| No title data | 260 | n/a |
Full professors, the most senior, most tenured, most established faculty, represent nearly two-thirds of all titled signers. This is not junior faculty activism.
Named Professors by Institution
Tel Aviv University: 29 Professors
Law (9): Prof. Aeyal Gross · Prof. Avihay Dorfman · Prof. Daphna Hacker · Prof. Eliav Lieblich · Prof. Guy Mundlak · Prof. Hila Shamir · Prof. Issachar Rosen-Zvi · Prof. Tamar Kricheli-Katz · Prof. Yofi Tirosh
Sociology (6): Prof. Adriana Kemp · Prof. Alexandra Kalev · Prof. Anastasia Gorodzeisky · Prof. Isaac Sasson · Prof. Michal Kravel-Tovi · Prof. Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni
Other (14): Prof. Camilla Adang (Arabic) · Prof. Daniel Dor (Communications) · Prof. Uri Cohen (Education) · Prof. Scott Ury (Jewish History) · Prof. David De Vries (Labor) · Prof. Eran Dorfman (Literature) · Prof. Michael Gluzman (Literature) · Prof. On Barak (ME History) · Prof. Yoav Alon (ME History) · Prof. Daphna Joel (Psychology) · Prof. Ravit Hananel (Public Policy) · Prof. Adi Ophir · Prof. Michal Na'aman · Prof. Tamar Meggido
Hebrew University: 15 Professors
Sociology (6): Prof. Eva Illouz · Prof. Yael Berda · Prof. Amalya Oliver · Prof. Edna Lomsky-Feder · Prof. Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi · Prof. Yehuda Goodman
Islamic/Middle Eastern (3): Prof. Daphna Ephrat · Prof. Oded Zinger · Prof. Reuven Amitai
Other (6): Prof. David Enoch (Law) · Prof. Tali Gal (Law) · Prof. Hannan Hever (English) · Prof. Anat Maril (Psychology) · Prof. Amiram Goldblum · Prof. Yuval Shany
Open University: 11 Professors
Sociology/Political Science/Communications (7): Prof. Anat Ben-David · Prof. Denis Charbit · Prof. Eran Fisher · Prof. Erez Tzfadia · Prof. Sara Kahn-Nisser · Prof. Yagil Levy · Prof. Zeev Rosenhek
Education/Psychology (4): Prof. Avner Caspi · Prof. Eran Chajut · Prof. Nurit Gronau · Prof. Ravit Nussinson
Bar-Ilan University: 7 Professors
Prof. Anat Matar (Philosophy) · Prof. Alon Harel (Law) · Prof. Barak Medina (Law) · Prof. Avi Rubin (Political Science) · Prof. Kinneret Lahad (Sociology) · Prof. Nitza Berkovitch (Sociology) · Prof. Orly Benjamin (Sociology)
Ben-Gurion University: 2 Professors
Prof. Haggai Ram (General History) · Prof. Israel Gershoni (General History)
Weizmann Institute: 2 Professors
Prof. Moty Heiblum · Prof. Oded Goldreich
Technion: 1 Professor
Prof. Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani (Humanities and Arts)
The 18 Multiple Petition Signers
Faculty who signed 2+ petitions, the most engaged individuals in the database:
| Name | Institution | Petitions |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. Anat Matar | Bar-Ilan | Black Flag + Sanctions |
| Prof. Eran Fisher | Open University | Black Flag + Sanctions |
| Prof. Hannan Hever | Hebrew University | Black Flag + Sanctions |
| Prof. Yael Berda | Hebrew University | Black Flag + Sanctions |
| Uri Hadar | Tel Aviv University | Black Flag + Artists/Intellectuals + Sanctions (3 petitions) |
| Eyal Benvenisti | Tel Aviv University | Black Flag + Intl Law Scholars |
| Anat Biletzki | Tel Aviv University | Black Flag + Sanctions |
| Miriam Eliav-Feldon | Tel Aviv University | Black Flag + Sanctions |
| Snait Gissis | Tel Aviv University | Black Flag + Sanctions |
| Amos Goldberg | Hebrew University | Black Flag + Sanctions |
| David Kretzmer | Hebrew University | Black Flag + Intl Law Scholars |
| Raz Chen-Morris | Hebrew University | Black Flag + Sanctions |
| Michal Givoni | Ben-Gurion | Black Flag + Sanctions |
| Uri Mor | Ben-Gurion | Black Flag + Sanctions |
| Amalia Saar | University of Haifa | Black Flag + Sanctions |
| Itamar Mann | University of Haifa | Black Flag + Intl Law Scholars |
| Tali Bitan | University of Haifa | Black Flag + Artists/Intellectuals |
| Avishai Ehrlich | Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo | Black Flag + Sanctions |
Uri Hadar (Tel Aviv University) is the only faculty member in the entire study to sign 3 separate petitions.
Discipline Distribution of Named Professors
| Discipline | Professors |
|---|---|
| Sociology/Anthropology | 16 |
| Law | 13 |
| Political Science/Communications | 9 |
| Education/Psychology | 7 |
| Literature/English | 5 |
| Islamic/Middle Eastern Studies | 4 |
| History | 4 |
| Philosophy | 1 |
| Other/Unspecified | 8 |
Sociology and Law faculty dominate senior-level participation. 29 of 67 named professors (43%) come from just these two disciplines.
What This Shows
The most established, most tenured, most institutionally embedded faculty participate at high rates. This is not junior faculty activism or graduate student organizing. Full professors represent 64% of all titled signers. They span law, sociology, philosophy, political science, and humanities.
What This Does Not Show
• Whether seniority causes higher participation (tenure may enable political expression, a hypothesis, not a finding)
• Whether junior faculty face peer pressure to sign
• Whether administrative faculty influence departmental norms
• Whether donors are currently aware of named professors' participation
In This Series
📖 Who Signed? (Flagship study)
📖 Israel vs. America Comparison
📖 Technion: 77%
📖 The Other Seven Universities
Ronn Torossian is an Israeli-American entrepreneur, author and philanthropist. He is the author of two best-selling editions of For Immediate Release.
