Professor Yifat Bitton is a legal academic and social activist for equality. She currently serves as President of Achva Academic College, the Israeli National Board of Public Colleges. She co-founded Tmura, The Iegal Center for Equality and was shortlisted twice for Israel’s Supreme Court. Bitton wrote a ground-breaking report on Hamas' Oct.7 sexual crimes presented at the UN this January.
Research fields: Tort Law, Antidiscrimination and Human Rights Law. She holds a Ph.D. from Hebrew University, LLM from Yale University and was a Fulbright fellow at Harvard. She has taught at University of Chicago, NYU, and Peking University, China.