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Anat Herbst-Debby is an Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University, holding dual affiliations with the Faculty of Social Sciences (Department of Sociology and Anthropology) and the Interdisciplinary Studies Unit (Gender Studies Program). Her work focuses on gender aspects of social policy, welfare systems, and family dynamics. She earned a PhD from Bar-Ilan University in 2007 and has received awards including the Israeli Daphna Chair of Female & Gender Research scholarship (2003) and a President's scholarship for excellent doctoral students (2005).
Her research explores four core areas: welfare-to-work programs for vulnerable mothers, divorce-related inequality, gender disparities in pension rights, and adolescent employment. She has secured grants from the Impact grant for pension rights research and the Israel Science Foundation for studies on youth employment. Key themes include motherhood’s impact on financial literacy, economic consequences of marital dissolution, and systemic barriers faced by marginalized groups like Palestinian and Mizrahi women.
- Education: PhD in Sociology, Bar-Ilan University (2007)
- Grants: Impact Grant (Pension Rights), Israel Science Foundation (Adolescent Employment)
- Activities: Organized conferences on family studies and global governance; visiting scholar at the University of Hamburg (2018)
Her studies often intersect with legal frameworks, cultural narratives, and policy design, addressing contemporary challenges such as pandemic impacts on single mothers and geopolitical identity among Israeli-Palestinian communities.
