End-of-Life Decisions
Assisted dying
Euthanasia
Current Projects
My current research, “The Three-Body Problem” of Assisted Dying—Insights from the Israeli Lab, combines analytic philosophy and political theory to examine tensions and flaws in contemporary public discourse on voluntary euthanasia, using Israel’s Dying Patient Law (2005) as a case study. It investigates the precariousness of the "value of life" reasoning, framed through Western liberal ideals—such as autonomy, dignity, and rationality—as well as by national narratives, religious axioms, and market forces. By analyzing the regulation process and its contestation across legal, economic, and cultural domains, the project examines the operation of power structures that construct and deconstruct the meanings associated with end-of-life decisions.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
2019-2023 Rotenstreich Scholarships for outstanding Ph.D. students in the humanities, The Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) of The Council for Higher Education (CHE), Israel.
2022 Research Stay at Sciences-Po, Paris - (Echange Ecole Doctorale)
2015 Research Excellence grant for Master's Degree, The Swiss-Israel Foundation for Philosophy.
2014 Excellence scholarship - Shoshana & Zvi Puzis Fund, Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University.
Prizes
2015 Research Excellence Prize for Master's Degree, The Swiss-Israel Foundation for Philosophy.
Education
2017-2025 Ph.D. School of Philosophy, Linguistics and Science Studies, Tel Aviv University.
Research Title: The Problem with ‘Suicide Problem’. Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Anat Matar
2011-2016 M.A. (magna cum laude) Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University.
Research Title: "Living Diagonally: Thoughts about Vulnerability Ethics in an Absurdist Reality." Graduate Thesis Advisor: Prof. Assaf Sharon
2007-2008 Executive MBA, School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2004-1999 B.Arch. Department of Architecture, Bezalel Academy of Art and Industry, Jerusalem.
Publications
Edited books
2025 (Forthcoming) חזן, ח. מגילנות לגזענות: כרוניקה של שליטה. מאנגלית:לוי, ד. תל אביב: הקיבוץ המאוחד ומרכז מינרבה לחקר בינתחומי של סוף החיים, אונ' ת"א.
Chapters in books
2025 (Forthcoming) "Suicide in 20th-century European Philosophy." In Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide. Cholbi, M. and Stellino, P. (ed.), Oxford University Press. (Invited chapter)
2021 "What's wrong with the statement of the American Association of Suicidology?" In Approaches to Death and Dying: Bioethical and Cultural Perspectives, Szabat, M. & Piasecki, J., (eds.): pp. 261-384. Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków. ISBN: 978-83-233-5055-2
2019 "Between the Logic of Life and the Anti-logic of Death: Reflections on Suicidality in the Wake of Jean Améry." In: Jean Améry - Beyond the Mind's Limits. Ataria Y., Kravitz A. & Pitcovski E. (eds): pp. 33-48 Springer International Publishing - Palgrave Macmillan: 261-284; ISBN: 978-3-030-28094-9
Articles
2021 "A new humanism is in sight: a Concluding Critical Essay." In: יד נשלחת בנפש -Jean Amery's "Hand an sich legen: Diskurs über den Freitod" [1976] Hebrew Translation, HaKibutz HaMeuhad, Tel-Aviv & Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life, Tel Aviv University. (Hebrew)
Presentations
03.2025 “How to say assisted dying in Hebrew.” The Mafte'akh: Lexical Journal of Political Thought 20th conference. Tel Aviv University. (Hebrew)
07. 2024 "How (Not) to Fight a Cruel Enemy – Reflection on Just War in Theory and in Practice." The Annual Conference of the Israeli Philosophical Association. Haifa University. (Co-writing with Dr. Naomi Korem)
04. 2024 "A Disease For Which There Is No Cure.” Rethinking Mental Disease and the Birth of Bioethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust“. Department of Health Sciences & Technology ETH Zurich. (Invited Talk)
07.2021 "Some comments regarding the claim that “'Suicide' is not the same as 'physician aid in dying,'" The International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying (IAPDD) Online Conference.
07.2021 "Toward a phenomenology of epistemic loneliness- reading in David Hume's writing," Loneliness in Philosophy and Psychology Conference, The Philosophy Department and the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University, USA
09.2020 "What is wrong with the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) statement?". Death and Dying: Medical, Cultural and Environmental Perspectives, Jagiellonian University-Medical College. Kraków, Poland.
7.2019 "Can I be bound any longer?" - An alternative reading in Hume's Of Suicide." Voluntary Death – Interdisciplinary Approaches Workshop, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
09.2018 "Beyond Morality and the Clinic: expanding the boundaries of language," Uniting Two Perspectives on Mental Illness: Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Essex, UK.