Dalit Rom-Shiloni, PhD, Project Leader
Dalit Rom-Shiloni is a Professor of Hebrew Bible at Tel Aviv University. She leads the DNI Bible project, and serves as General Editor of the DNI Bible Supplements series with Bloomsbury T & T Clark. She writes extensively on Hebrew Bible theology; group-identity conflicts within the Judean communities of the Neo-Babylonian and the early Persian period; inner-biblical allusion and interpretation mainly in Jeremiah and Ezekiel; the formation of sixth-century BCE prophetic and poetic literatures; and on nature imagery and conceptions of nature in the Hebrew Bible. Rom-Shiloni is the Founding Director of the Orit Guardians MA and research program, dedicated to the study and research of the Ethiopic Bible Scriptures of Beta Israel. She serves as General Editor of the journal Beit Mikra; and is a member of the SBL Council.
Anat Alcalay, MA student in Biblical Studies, Tel Aviv University
Anat Alcalay is an MA student in the Department of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University. She is currently writing her MA thesis on Day of YHWH prophecies in Second Zechariah and their place in biblical thought (under the supervision of Dr. Guy Darshan), expected to be submitted by the end of 2022.
Dorit Pomerantz, MA student in Biblical Studies
Dorit Pomerantz is an MA student in the Department of Biblical studies at Tel Aviv University. She is mostly interested in comparative studies of the Bible in the context of the Ancient Near East. Her academic venture started many years ago when she took biology and geology and then an MBA degree in Los Angeles. For many years Dorit was involved in the business world but never deserted her love for traveling, hiking, and mountain biking in nature. She spent most of her life outside of Israel and moved back permanently three years ago with her husband and twin daughters.
Enav Vidan, PhD, Zoologist, Ecologist and Conservation Biologist
Enav Vidan is a zoologist, an ecologist, and a conservation biologist, deeply passionate about our natural world and its protection. She earned her M.Sc. and her Ph.D.in Ecology at TAU, and focused on global lizard macroecology. Currently, she is on a postdoctoral position at the Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology, in Sde-Boker. Her project focuses on prioritizing the Israeli land-vertebrate fauna for conservation, in light of current and future development schemes, and climates.
Hadas Saaroni, PhD, Climatologist
Prof. Saaroni is a full Professor of Climatology. She is the head of the climate and environment research group at the department of Geography and the Human Environment, Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. Her fields of expertise include regional climatology, synoptic climatology, climate change, urban and applied climatology. Her research, combining theoretical and applied aspects, uses ‘environment to climate’ and ‘climate to environment’ approaches.
Dr. Haim Moyal, Ornithologist, Zoologist, and archaeologist, Levinsky-Wingate College
Dr. Haim Moyal is an ornithologist and archaeologist. His greater passion is for birds. Focusing on ornithology, Moyal worked with Yossi Leshem (Tel Aviv University) as education manager of the International Center for the Study of Bird Migration and conducted his PhD studies in the University of University of Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj, Rumania (2012).
Osnat Frank, PhD Candidate in Biblical Studies
Osnat Frank is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests are diverse, as a result of her former studies and professional experience. She is a graduate in law (LL.B) from the college of Management Academic studies (1996); a member of the Israeli Bar Association (1998). Practitioner in civil law and tax law. This is in addition to her BA in Education (School Counseling) and Geography from the Tel Aviv University (1985).
Reuven Givati, PhD, Atmospheric Science, and MA, Biblical Studies
Reuven Givati has a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Planetary Sciences, both degrees from Tel Aviv University, and a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of California at Davis. Reuven is mostly interested in the knowledge of meteorology in the Hebrew Bible, and in 2019 he recieved an MA degree in Biblical studies with an MA thesis on the knowledge of meteorology among the authors of Biblical literature
Dr. Shira Rosenvasser, Botanist and Evolutionary and Ecological Biologist, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Shira Penner Rosenvasser (PhD, Tel Aviv University, 2020) is a biologist, specializing in the fields of Botany, Evolution and Ecology, in the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University. Shira is developing contents for the department of education and science communication in the Steinhardt Museum, as well as functioning as the laboratory manager of the archaeobotanical laboratory in the Museum led by Prof. Dafna Langgut. She also serves as a botanical consultant of the DNI Bible project.
