Yair Eldan Email: yair.eldan@gmail.com
2013-2014 Member - Law Faculty of the Ono Academic College (Jewish Law and Jurisprudence) Chairman – Poetry Place, Makom Leshira 2012-2013 Member - Law Faculty of the Ono Academic College (Jewish Law and Jurisprudence). Lecturer – The Conflict Management Program at Bar-Ilan University (Religious Approaches to Conflict Management). 2011-2012 Member - Law Faculty of the Ono Academic College (Jewish Law). Lecturer – Melamdim program at the advanced studies center of Shalom Hartman Institute. Coordinator – Annual Philosophy Conference at the Shalom Hartman Institute. 2010-2011 Member - Law Faculty of the Ono Academic College (Jewish Law). Fellow – Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Lecturer – Melamdim program at the advanced studies center of Shalom Hartman Institute. Coordinator – Annual Philosophy Conference at the Shalom Hartman Institute. 2009-2010 Fellow – Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Lecturer – Melamdim program at the advanced studies center of Shalom Hartman Institute. 2008-2009 Fellow – Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Lecturer – Melamdim program at the advanced studies center of Shalom Hartman Institute. Lecturer - Law Faculty of the College of Management Academic Studies (Law and Literature). 2007-2008
July 2008 – received PhD from Bar-Ilan University. Title of the Thesis: "Distancing and Death in Rabbinic Excommunication – A Theoretical-Critical Study". Lecturer – Melamdim program at the advanced studies center of Shalom Hartman Institute. Lecturer - Law Faculty of the College of Management Academic Studies (Law and Literature). Junior Fellow - Advanced Studies Center of the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. 2006-2007 PhD student – The Conflict Management Program at Bar-Ilan University. 2005-2006 PhD student – The Conflict Management Program at Bar-Ilan University. Founder of the "One Verse Night" society at Goodenough College for International students (London). The society was a platform for inter-religious dialogue through canonical texts. 2003-2005 Phd. Student - The Conflict management Program - Bar-Ilan University. Member of advanced Jewish studies study group at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. 2002-2003 M.A. student for Cultural studies – Hebrew University. Member of "Ktovet" poetry group. 2001-2002 Parliamentary Assistant of MK Ophir Pines-Paz, chairman of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee of the Knesset. 2000-2001 Internship at Attias, Mayer and Fruchter Law Firm in Haifa (companies, civil law, litigation). Member of the Israel Bar. Member of "Helicon" poetry class. 1997-1999 Member of the editorial board of “Mishpatim” Law Review of the H.U. 1996-1999 Legal Training in the Law Faculty of the H.U. 1995-1996 A semester was spent at the Faculty of Humanities in the Hebrew University (H.U.) 1991-1995
Military service in the I.D.F as a Tanks officer. Served in an operational unit and then as an instructor in the Tank Commander Course. 1989-1991 Hartman High school in Jerusalem. Publications Books Excommunication, Death, and Mourning (Resling, 2011, Hebrew) Messianism? Idolatry! The Internal Logic of the Tractates in the Mishnah (Carmel, 2011, Hebrew) The Body Map (a Novel, Yediot Sfarim, 2011, Hebrew) Essays 'You shall not stand by the blood of your neighbor', the turn of an idea and its impact on the Israeli society” (in Hebrew) - published in Akdamot 11, 7-37. "The Jewish search for uncertainty" (in Hebrew), Akdamot 16, 109-138. "Home" and "Revelation" – Metaphors in the Constitution Dispute in Israel, 12 Organizational Analysis , 32-47
"Ta'anit Tractate – The Image of a community excommunicated by God". Akdamot 19, 165-182. "Agnon as a Midrash creator and a social critic" (in Hebrew), Deot 17, pg. 35. "With Us In All Our Trials", A Study in Ha-gilgul, Twenty-four Readings in Aharon Appelfeld’s Literary Work, Edited by Avi Sagi and Avidov Lipsker (Bar Ilan, 2011). Poems published in Helicon, Mashiv ha'ruach, Anonymous-fish, Iton 77. Newspaper and Media Articles (partial list) "Not to Fear to Command to Love" (after Schnitt's Committee Report), Makor Rishon, January 31st, 2012. "One Language and the Same Words" (after the nullification of the Tal statute), Makor Rishon, March 13, 2012. "Relevant Values for Conversion", Israel Hayom, May 5th, 2012. "A Letter to the God of Men", Haaretz Site, August 8th, 2012. "Olmert and the Evasive Responsibility – A look into the partial Vinograd report at the 6th annual of the second Lebanon War", Compress.com, July 17th, 2012.