Vice Chairperson

Prof. Orit Rozin is a social historian and Full Professor in the Department of History of the Jewish People at Tel Aviv University. She is Vice Chair of the Israel Historical Society and Head of the Institute for the Study of Zionism.

Her research focuses on legal, cultural, and social history, as well as on the history of emotions, with an emphasis on Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel.

She is the author of Duty and Love: Individualism and Collectivism in 1950's Israel (2008), which received the Yonatan Shapiro Prize of the Association for Israel Studies in 2009. Her second book, A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights and National Identity in the New Israeli State (2016), was a finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award of the Association for Jewish Studies in 2018. Her third book, Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949–1967 (2025), received the prize of the European Association of Israel Studies in the same year.