Yossi Dahan
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Yossi Dahan is founder and chairman of Adva Center
), a lecturer in philosophy and law, and a leading activist on social justice issues in Israeli society.
Dahan earned his PhD at Columbia University
under the supervision of Thomas Pogge
. In 1991 Dahan fonunded together with other academics and activists Adva Center
, a think tank for policy analysis of Israeli society from a social justice perspective, and as since serves as its chairman. He is also a member of "Hakeshet Hademokratit Hamizrahit" "(Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition
)", a group that promotes equal rights for Israel's Mizrahi population (Jews originating from countries in Asia and North Africa), and was one of the petitioners in the successful Israeli Supreme Court lawsuit to stop the Israel Lands Administration from converting agricultural lands to non-agricultural use for the benefit of private developers. Dahan is a public representative in Israel's National Labor Court,
Having subsequently earned a law degree, Dahan lectures and heads the Human Rights Program at the Academic center for Law and Business at Ramat Gan, in a landmark case the program succeeded in its petition to the Israeli supreme court to repeal a law allowing the establishment of a private prison. He also teaches philosophy at Israel's Open University
. His major areas of research include: political philosophy, theories of justice, education theory, International labor standards and global justice theories.
Dahan is the founder and editor of the alternative opinion website "Ha'Oketz" (Hebrew: העוקץ meaning: the sting), which he founded with his fellow scholar Ishak Saporta
. The site addresses current political, social, economic and cultural topics in Israeli life from a critical viewpoint.
Articles
Adva Center
-History:Adva was founded in 1991 by activists from three social movements: the movement for equality for Mizrahi Jews, the feminist movement, and the movement for equal rights for Arab citizens. The director of the center is Barbara Svirski and its chairman is Yossi Dahan.-Objectives:Adva Center...
), a lecturer in philosophy and law, and a leading activist on social justice issues in Israeli society.
Dahan earned his PhD at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
under the supervision of Thomas Pogge
Thomas Pogge
Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge is a German philosopher and is currently the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University...
. In 1991 Dahan fonunded together with other academics and activists Adva Center
Adva Center
-History:Adva was founded in 1991 by activists from three social movements: the movement for equality for Mizrahi Jews, the feminist movement, and the movement for equal rights for Arab citizens. The director of the center is Barbara Svirski and its chairman is Yossi Dahan.-Objectives:Adva Center...
, a think tank for policy analysis of Israeli society from a social justice perspective, and as since serves as its chairman. He is also a member of "Hakeshet Hademokratit Hamizrahit" "(Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition
Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition
The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition is a social justice organization among Mizrahi Jews in Israel....
)", a group that promotes equal rights for Israel's Mizrahi population (Jews originating from countries in Asia and North Africa), and was one of the petitioners in the successful Israeli Supreme Court lawsuit to stop the Israel Lands Administration from converting agricultural lands to non-agricultural use for the benefit of private developers. Dahan is a public representative in Israel's National Labor Court,
Having subsequently earned a law degree, Dahan lectures and heads the Human Rights Program at the Academic center for Law and Business at Ramat Gan, in a landmark case the program succeeded in its petition to the Israeli supreme court to repeal a law allowing the establishment of a private prison. He also teaches philosophy at Israel's Open University
Open University
The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...
. His major areas of research include: political philosophy, theories of justice, education theory, International labor standards and global justice theories.
Dahan is the founder and editor of the alternative opinion website "Ha'Oketz" (Hebrew: העוקץ meaning: the sting), which he founded with his fellow scholar Ishak Saporta
Ishak Saporta
Ishak Saporta management researcher in Tel Aviv University and social-democrat activist.-Biography:Saporta born in Israel to parents who immigrated from Turkey. He is graduated degrees in psychology, philosophy and labor studies. Ib the year 1995 finish his Phd from Berkeley University California...
. The site addresses current political, social, economic and cultural topics in Israeli life from a critical viewpoint.
Selected publications
Books- Dahan, Y. (2007) Theories of Social Justice (Hebrew)
- Dahan, Y, Wasserman, H, (eds.) (2006) To Invent a Nation, Open University Press. (Hebrew)
Articles
- Dahan, Y. (2010) Privatization, Marketization and Equality of Educational Opportunity, Journal of Law & Ethics of Human Rights, Vol. 4
- Dahan, Y. Lerner, H. Milman, F. Global Justice, Responsibility and International Labor Standards, Theoretical Inquires in Law, Vol. 11 No. 3, 2011
- Dahan, Y., Lerner, H. Milman, F. International Labor Standards, Encyclopedia of Global Justice, Springer, 2011,
- Dahan, Y. Hammer Y. 2010., Democracy, the Educational Autonomy of Cultural Minorities and the Law: The Case of the Ultra-Orthodox Minority in Israel in Alexander, H., Pinson, H., and Yonah, Y. (2009) Citizenship, Education and Social Conflict, London: Routledge.
- Dahan, Y. Levy, G. (2000) The Multicultural Education in the Zionist State – The Mizrahi Challenge Studies in Philosophy and Education 19: (5-6): 423-444
- Yonah, Y., Dahan, Y. and D. Markovich. 2008. Neo-liberal Reforms in Israel's Education System: the Dialectics of the State, International Studies in Sociology of Education 18(4): 199-216.
- Dahan, Y. Yonah, Y. (2007) Israel's Education System: Equality of Opportunity: from Nation Building to Neo Liberalism in Brock, C. and Levers, L. (eds) Aspects of Education in the Middle East and North Africa. Oxford University Press
- Yonah, Y, Dahan, Y. (2008) Neo Liberal Reforms in Israel's Education System, in Resnik, J. (ed.) The Production of Educational Knowledge in the Global Era, Sense Publishers. (121-145)