Eitan Moran
General Director
Eitan Moran has served as general director of the Society for Advancement of Education since graduating from the prestigious Mandel School for Educational Leadership in 2008. He has a great deal of experience in management, education, and in contributing to society.
Eitan is a founder of the Nadav Merhav Democratic School in Modi’in, which he helped establish in 1999. He holds an MA in management and public policy from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and a BA cum laude in sociology and political science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Eitan is a recent graduate of the Tavistok Institute of Human Relations - a non-profit organization that deals with organizational research and development and applies approaches and concepts from the social sciences in order to create innovative, effective methods for dealing with core subjects and current issues.
Finances:
Acct. Sari Zaidman
CFO
Pedagogical Development:
Michal Shavit
Director of Education Development
Michal holds an MA in History and a BA in history and education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Prior to joining the SAE, Michal was principal of HaYovel Junior High School in Mevasseret Zion, and served as deputy principal of the Hebrew University High School.
Michal is a graduate of the Mandel Institute for Educational Leadership in Jerusalem.
Eden Israeli
Director of Student Support Services
Eden has over 20 years of experience treating and teaching students with learning differences. She was a district supervisor for the Ministry of Education and a specialist in treatment of behavioral problems.
Eden holds a BA in psychology and an MA in special education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was certified at Bar Ilan University to conduct didactic evaluations and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).
Eden is responsible for establishing and operating the Niot Project, which focuses on supporting youth with learning differences, and was pedagogical advisor in the establishment of two SAE schools: Inbar and MBHS.
Resource Development and Community Relations:
Limor Levi
Vice President of Development at the Society for Advancement of Education, Jerusalem
Limor has a Master’s degree in public management and local government, and a Bachelor’s degree in political science, both from Bar-Ilan University.
Prior to her position at the SAE, she was the Deputy Director of the “Israeli Trauma Coalition,” Deputy Director of the NPO “Mifalot education and society enterprises” and Director of the society and culture department for the Israel Students Authority, Tel Aviv and Central Region.
Limor has a great deal of experience in developing collaborations, community relations and resource development, as well as with work in international areas and social export.
Ido Aharoni
Advisor to the Board (Volunteer)
Ido Aharoni Aronoff is an Israeli diplomat, advisor to global companies, public speaker, university lecturer and writer. He was born in Tel Aviv to a family that settled in the Land of Israel in the 1870’s and spent his entire diplomatic career in the United States, on both coasts. He is a 25-year veteran of Israel’s Foreign service, a public diplomacy specialist, founder of the Brand Israel Program (2002), and a well-known political marketing, positioning and place branding practitioner. Since his retirement from government in 2016, he has held senior advisory positions with several multinational corporations, such APCO, Libra Group, MasterCard, Value Base, Bank Leumi, among others.
He has also advised several publicly traded technology companies. Aharoni is the founder of international consultancy Emerson Rigby Ltd, co-founder of British-Israeli investment company EA2K, Chairman of the America-Israel Friendship League and co-founder of the Genius 100 Visions Foundation established to celebrate Albert Einstein’s Legacy.
He has served as Global Distinguished Professor of Business at Touro University and as a Global Distinguished Professor for International Relations at New York University. He has been a Member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University since 2015 and a lecturer at the university’s Coller School of Management since 2018. He has also served as a Professor at University of California in San Diego’s Global Policy Center (UCSD) and San Diego State University’s Fowler College of Business (SDSU). He has frequently appeared in national and international media as a commentator and opinion writer. Aharoni has been Israel's longest-serving Consul-General in New York (2010-2016).
Human Resources:
Chani Litmanovitch
Director of Human Resources
Chani has over a decade of experience in various human resources fields.
She has worked in HR, organizational development and learning management positions at Teva Pharmaceuticals and the Bank of Israel. She specialized as an organizational consultant at Clalit Health Services.
In her role at SAE, Chani manages human capital aspects and supports organizational changes and development processes.
Chani is a certified mediator, and holds an MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in organizational behavior and management of human resources. She was awarded a bachelor’s degree in psychology and communications with distinction from the Hebrew University.
Student Absorption:
Racheli Abiczar
Director of Residential Student Support
Racheli holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from the Hebrew University. She is a family, dyad and couples’ therapist, and a parenting teacher.
Racheli's certifications include:
Couples and family therapy from the Magid Institute, CPP from Haruv, DBT from the Ofek Institute, and AEDP from the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya.
Prior to her position at the SAE, Racheli directed a cluster of therapeutic foster homes at the “Or Shalom” NPO, as well as a national pilot project for prevention of removing toddlers from their homes, operated by JDC Israel – Ashalim and the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services.
She teaches practicums for groups of social workers for the Central School of Social Work, and operates a private clinic.
Photo: Aviad Vitzman
Liat Hazan
Advancing to Academia
Liat graduated with a BA from the Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University. She is an experienced youth advisor for national-civil service.
Since 2008, Liat has been responsible for the Advancing to Academia project, a program that provides applicants with the opportunity to apply to institutes of higher education through affirmative action, based on each one's personal background and the difficulties they experienced in high school.
Liat is responsible for the process of determining scores for each applicant, from the first stage of receiving the application at the Society for Advancement of Education through the final decision, and maintains contact with representatives of the various universities.
Adv. Shani Rabin Yadid
Coordinator of Communications and Operations
Shani has a bachelor’s degree in law, and a lawyer’s license.
She has worked at two leading law offices, and is experienced in the areas of contracts and tenders, as well as in consulting, monitoring, and representation.
Yael Boim-Fein
Founding Director of the Israeli Institute for Gender Equity in Education
Yael is an educational entrepreneur and a specialist in the fields of gender and education. She is an executive member of the international Gender and Education Association (GEA) and a member of the research lab for feminist theory at the Van Leer Institute.
She founded and directed the education department at Beit Avi Chai, and has an academic background in media and culture studies, gender studies and pluralistic education.
Yael is a graduate of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership and the American State Department’s Leadership Program.