Dr. Zeev Lehrer is head of the sociology program in the School of Behavioral Sciences at the Peres Academic Center and teaches in the Women and Gender Studies Program at Tel Aviv University. He has a PhD in sociology from Tel Aviv University. He specializes in applied social research on ethnicity and gender in organizations; the psychology of decoding the other; the sociology of military and combat; and embodied cognition in soccer. He is a senior consultant on gender and occupational diversity to public and private sector organizations. Lehrer served as the head of the Women and Gender Knowledge Center in the chief of staff’s advisory unit on women’s issues.