Dr. Ofir Hadad
Department of Political Science
Dr. Ofir Hadad is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem working on an ISF-funded project and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR). His postdoctoral research focuses on the politics of place naming in divided cities. Ofir is also an ISEF Foundation International Fellow and a recipient of the BFHU Scholarship. His main research interests include law and politics, national security, and violent conflicts. In addition to his research work, Ofir is also a Teaching Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches courses on Israeli law and politics to undergraduates and graduate students.
Ofir has completed his Ph.D. as part of the Advanced Graduate-Research Program of the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Telem) and was a fellow of the multidisciplinary international Ph.D. program “Human Rights under Pressure,” a joint program of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with the Free University of Berlin. Ofir’s doctoral thesis examined the role of political and legal discourse in shaping Israel’s immigration policy toward former security collaborators. During his doctoral studies, Ofir received the President of Israel Scholarship for Academic Excellence and Innovation and was the first fellow of the American Friends of Yitzhak Rabin Fund.
Ofir holds an M.A. (magna cum laude) in Political Science and an LL.B. (magna cum laude) in Law combined with the Interdisciplinary Honors Program of the Humanities (Amirim), both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his internship at the State Attorney’s Office and qualified to practice law. Alongside his academic work, Ofir also serves as the academic coordinator for first-generation students in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Unit for Diversity and Inclusion. He was also the co-founder and the first academic coordinator of the master's program “Law, Governance & Society” of the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
For his recent publications, see:
Hadad, Ofir and Menachem Hofnung. 2023. “Judicial Framing and Immigration Policymaking: Israel’s Policy toward Self-Claiming Palestinian Informers,” International Migration Review (Published online: 2 March 2023).
Hofnung, Menachem and Ofir Hadad. 2023. “Latent Judicial Intervention: The Case of Self-Claiming Palestinian Informers,” Journal of Law and Courts 11(1): 187-206.
Hadad, Ofir. 2021. “A Battle of Names: Hamas and Israeli Operations in the Gaza Strip,” Terrorism and Political Violence 33(5): 931-950.
For selected publications in the media, see:
“Between ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ and ‘Iron Swords’: The Symbolic Aspects of the 2023 Israel-Hamas War,” The Seventh Eye.
“The Twilight Zone: The Unknown Lives of the 'Threatened' Palestinians in Israel,” Forbes Magazine.
“5 Years for ‘Tzuk Eitan’: The Names Given by Hamas to IDF Operations in Gaza and What They Mean,” Mako.