Shaul Kimhi (Tel Hai Academic College) – Welfare and Social Work
Shaul Kimhi completed his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Israel and his Ph.D. (psychology) at the Palo Alto University, California, USA. He was Head of the Psychology Department at Tel Hai College from 2009 to 2016. Prof. Prof. Kimhi used to be a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP), and the International Political Science Association (IPSA). His main areas of research are: individual, community and national resilience; coping with stress; political psychology (including behavior analysis of political leaders), psychology of terrorism, and army psychology.
Professor Kimhi has published 4 books (one of them as an editor), 82 articles in refereed journals and 10 chapters in collections. He has participated in many academic international conferences, including as invited and keynote speaker and serves as a referee for several professional journals. He is often invited to the Israeli media (TV and radio) to discuss his areas of expertise. In the past Prof. Kimhi served as a special advisor in the Israeli Army Intelligence Corps. Today, Shaul is Professor Emeritus at Tel-Hai College and he is one of the founders (in the process) of the 'Multi-national Resilience & Well-being Research and Knowledge Center' at Tel Aviv University.