Dr. Nechumi Yaffe

Dr. Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe is a tenured senior lecturer at the School of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University and co-director of the Haredi Research Group at UCLA.

She began her professional life in the Bais Yaakov system, and for more than a decade she taught history in seminaries in Jerusalem, served as an educational consultant in the Charedi school system, sat on the committee that wrote the national history exams, and wrote textbooks and teaching guides. She holds a bachelor’s degree in the humanities and two master’s degrees, one with a thesis on the integration of Charedim into Israeli society.

She completed her doctorate at the Swiss Center for Conflict Research at ebrew Uniersity, with a dissertation on poverty and identity in Charedi society. From there she went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton, and taught at Rutgers University and at Yale’s summer school. Since 2019 she has been a faculty member at Tel Aviv University.

After October 7th she founded the Charedi civilian emergency network, which recruited and mobilized some 100,000 Charedi volunteers for relief work, and earned her a Knighthood Award from the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation.

With nineteen academic articles published or forthcoming, she received Tel Aviv University’s Rector’s Award for excellence in teaching, as well as the Association for Israel Studies’ award for an outstanding early-career researcher.