Bio
Senior Faculty Member in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Tel Aviv University, researcher and lecturer on ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel, and Director of the TITA Institute, which aims to integrate the Haredi sector into Israeli society and bring it into the mainstream. Dr. Yaffe is a Haredi woman from a Hasidic home, and is one of the first Haredi researchers in academia. Her doctoral thesis dealt with poverty and identity in Haredi society. She did her post-doctorate work at Princeton University.