MD, MPH, Director of the Environmental Epidemiology Unit at the Ministry of Health. Research interests in Jewish music: the musical traditions of the Algerian Jews; Written sources of synagogue music from nineteenth-century Italy.
M.A. Musicology, The Hebrew University, thesis: Contemporary Cantillation of the Book of Esther according to the Ashkenazi Custom in Israel - Tradition of Deviations. PhD student at the Hebrew University, working on the formation of the contemporary Ashkenazi liturgical Tradition in Israel.Taught Jewish music at the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem and at the Open University.
