Management

Prof. Eliezer Shalev

President

Mr. Eli Cohen

Director General

A native of Kiryat Shemona, Eli lives with his wife and three children in Metula. Eli holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Sciences and a M.A. ( cum laude ) in Business Management from Tel-Aviv University. Prior to joining Tel-Hai, Eli was Managing Director at Kiryat Shemona Municipality and earlier, head of the Education Department at the Gilboa Regional Council. After many years of service in the IDF's Artillery and Armored Corps, Eli was released from the army with the rank of colonel.

Prof. Snait Tamir

Vice President for Research and Development

Coming from the Department of Nutritional Science, where she served as the chairperson of the department and later as Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Prof. Tamir has a proven record of leadership and scholarship. She earned her Bachelor degree and Ph.D at the Hebrew University, and then obtained her Post Doc position at MIT. Prof. Tamir's research and work focus primarily, but not exclusively, on various issues relating to nutrition and health: endothelial function and how it is affected by diet andor nutrients, as well as its influence on cardiovascular related diseases, fatty liver, obesity and longevity. Recently, her interest and exposure to research questions pertaining to public health, has led her to study the effects of diet-driven microbiota alterations on quality of life, state of health, insomnia and mood status among elderly.

Prof. Nir Becker

Rector

Mrs. Adi Shwartz, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

Native of Kibbutz Yagur, Adi holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Accounting from Rupin College and a Master's degree in Business Administration (Cum Luda) from the Open University. Before joining the management of Tel-Hai in 2021, Adi served as Director General at Ohalo College of Education. Adi lives in Aniam and mother of two.

Dr. Eitan Simon

Vice-President for Katzrin Campus Affairs

Mrs. Madi Atias

Deputy Director General

Native of Kiryat Shemona, Madi Atias has a Bachelor's degree in Management and Economy and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Haifa. Before joining the management of Tel-Hai at 2004, she served as an Economist and as Human Resources Manager in the private section. Madi's fields of proficiency are Logistics Managing, College Administration, Human Resources and Payroll. Married and a mother of three, she lives in Kibbutz Ha'Goshrim, Upper Galilee.

Prof. Mustafa Abbasi

Dean of Students

Prof. Abassi focuses on the social history of the Palestinian Arab population from the late Ottoman period to the end of the British Mandate. Most of his research in this field has dealt with social changes in the Arab cities and towns in the Galilee, a region in which his family has resided for centuries. In addition, a few of his studies have dealt with the city of Jerusalem and its rural environs, as well as the city of Nablus.

Prof. Abassi's second field of interest is the history of the 1948 War and the Galilee in the first few years following the establishment of the state of Israel, in both the urban population of the four Galilee cities (Safad, Acre, Nazareth, and Tiberias), and the rural population in the districts of these four cities.

Prof. Dani Kotlar

Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology

Prof. Kotlar is an Associate Professor at the
Department of Computer Science at Tel-Hai
College. He earned his bachelor’s (1986)
and master’s (1987) in mathematics from the
Technion, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of
Oregon (1992).
Originally, his area of research was in pure mathematics
(Group Theory). Since he arrived at Tel-Hai (1994) both his
teaching and research specialties shifted towards computer
science, discrete mathematics, combinatorics and graph
theory. He served as Head of the Department of Computer
Science in the years 2005-2011 and again in 2016-2019.

Prof. Doron Lavee

Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Doron Lavee is a Professor of Economics at Tel-Hai College and the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Prof. Lavee finished undergraduate and graduate degrees in the Hebrew university and Ph.D. at Ben Gurion university. Besides teaching and doing research, he is also involved in public consultation on his research issues and volunteering in the community.