Ethics, Bioethics, Gender, and Halacha – Seminar in Honor of Professor Noam Zohar's Retirement (Bar-Ilan University, February 13 th 2024)
Faculty of Humanities Annual Conference – (Bar-Ilan University, 2022) Oxford–Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics (Zefat, April 14–17, 2015)
Blue and White Bioethics – Israel's Perspective (Ashkelon, January 20–22, 2011)
The Double Agent Dilemma – On Conflicting Obligations of Physicians (Haifa, April 16–17, 2010)
PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES
International, in English:
Oxford–Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, Oxford. April, 13-15, 2026. Paper presented: Uterus Transplantation - Reproductive Empowerment or the Medicalization of Religious Oppression?
Oxford–Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, New York. April, 1-4, 2025. Paper presented: Parenthood determination in embryo mix-up cases
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, England. June, 14 th -15 th , 2023. Paper Presented: Sufficiency of basic human functional capabilities under moderate and severe scarcity of resources.
Oxford–Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, New York. March, 27-29, 2023. Paperמpresented: The role of moral fictions in medical practice.
Oxford–Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, New York. April 4-6, 2022. Paper presented: Surrogacy services for single men and men in homosexual relationships.
32 nd European Conference of Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, Lisbon, Portugal. August 22–25, 2018. Paper presented: Posthumous Assisted Reproduction – Solidarity as a Theoretical Framework.
Oxford–Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, New York. April 16–18, 2018. Paper presented: The Israel Fertility Association recommendations on posthumous assisted reproduction.
HDCA 2017 Conference, Cape Town, South Africa. September 6–8, 2017. Paper presented: Tragedy of the Commons and Population Health.
Workshop – “Europe on Distributive Justice”, Aarhus University, Denmark. June 14–17, 2017.
Paper presented: The Interplay between Cultural Context Values and Universal Distributive Principles.
Eastern APA (American Philosophical Association) Committee on Philosophy and Medicine, Baltimore, USA. January 4–7, 2017. Paper presented: Basic Human Functional Capabilities and Sufficientarian Distribution in Health Care.
Oxford–Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, Oxford, England. April 6–9, 2014. Paper presented: Fair Equality of Opportunity in Healthcare.
COST Action Meeting IS1201 – Veterans' voices: Learning from the experience of disaster relief teams and homefront coping in Israel, Tel-Aviv University, The Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics, October 15–16, 2013. Paper presented: Ethics for Disasters.
17 th Galilee Colloquia on Social, Moral and Legal Philosophy, Swiss-Israel Philosophy Fund, June 19–22, 2013. Paper presented: Ethical Considerations of Triage – Unique Israeli Bioethics.
Equality of Opportunity in Theory and Practice, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 6–7, 2012. Paper presented: Equality of Opportunity versus Sufficiency of Capabilities in Health.
International Workshop – Personalized Medicine, The Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research, Dead Sea, Israel. September 5–6, 2012. Paper presented: Patients and Disease Stratification: Implications for Equity and (In)Equality.
26 th European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care – Worst Case Bioethics, Nazareth, Israel. August 21–24, 2012. Paper presented: Ethical Considerations of Triage.
How much is enough? Sufficiency and thresholds in health care, an interdisciplinary workshop at the Centre for Ethics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. June 7–8, 2012. Paper presented: Sufficiency Threshold and Priority to the Worse-Off.
Oxford–Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, New York. April, 2011. Paper presented: Resource Allocation under Austere Conditions.
Brocher Summer Academy in Global Population Health 2010, Harvard University – program in Ethics and Health, Brocher Foundation, University of Geneva, Switzerland. July 12–16 th , 2010. Participation only.
Extensions of Justice, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. June, 2009. Comments on Shlomi Segall’s paper: The Health of Nations: Global Justice and National Responsibility for Health.
Oxford–Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, New York. March, 2009. Paper presented: Sufficiency of Basic Human Functional Capabilities.
National:
The Israeli Philosophical Association, 28 th Annual Conference. July 8 th , 2025. Paper presented: Commentary: The Challenge of Moral Responsibility in the Principle of Double Effect.
Motherhood and the Law. The Forum for Gender, Law, and Social Policy. Faculty of Law, Haifa University June 5 th , 2025. Paper presented: Motherhood in Conflict – Legal, Bioethical, and Social Insights from the Assuta Case. (with Prof. Roy Gilbar and Dr. Sivan Tamir).
The Assuta Case - Parenthood in Conflict? Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel. March 23, 2025. Paper presented: Two methods for reasoning on what establishמparenthood in cases of embryo mix-up cases.
Ethics, Bioethics, Gender and Halach, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. February 13, 2024. Paper presented: Cooperation despite disagreement.
The annual conference of the philosophy department, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. May, 9, 2023. Paper presented: Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection – Thoughts on the Political.
International Center for Health Law and Ethics, Haifa University, October 2021. Paper presented: Formal and substantive interpretation of informed consent in the Patient Right Act.
Inter-Disciplinary Research Group, Ramat-Gan, Israel. November 25, 2020. Paper presented: The Moral Status of Surplus Fertilized Eggs: Is it Ethical to Destroy Them or to Use them?
Triage under Extreme circumstances. April 26, 2020. Paper presented: Setting Priorities Among COVID-19 patients. Cohen Institute – Tel-Aviv University.
Cryopreserved Surplus Pre-embryos in IVF Units and their Future Use. Van-Leer Institute. January 14, 2020. Subject of lecture: The Ethical Perspective.
Fertility Medicine – Moral and Legal Dilemmas. August 20, 2019. Paper presented (panel): Posthumous Assisted Reproduction. The Society for Medicine and Law in Israel, The International Center for Health, Ethics, and Law at Haifa University, Sheba Medical Center.
Israel Philosophy Association, Ramat-Gan, Israel. February 13, 2019. Paper presented: It Takes a Village to raise a child – solidarity and posthumous assisted reproduction.
Sperm Banks and Use of Sperm for Reproduction – Medical, Legal and Ethical Aspects, Ono Academic College and AYALA. February 20, 2018. Subject of lecture: Contextual Autonomy and Individualistic Autonomy – Two Perspectives on Posthumous Reproduction.
Research Workshop: Consent – Twenty Years after the Patient Rights Law, Netanya Academic College. May 23–24, 2016. Subject of lecture: Autonomy and Rationality – A Distinction between Beliefs and Choices.
Launch of the book entitled Blue–White Bioethics: Bioethics and Medical Law in Israel, Bialik Institute and Ono Academic College. October 11, 2015. Subject of lecture: The IDF in Haiti – Israeli Ethics under Austere Conditions and Mass Disaster.
Tenth Conference – The Ethics Bureau of Nurses in Israel, Sheba Medical Center, May 2016. Subject of lecture: Safety of the Patient and Safety of the Caregiver: Is There an Obligation to Treat?
The Supreme Professional Committee for Occupational Therapy, Shlomi. May 12, 2014. Subject of lecture: Professional Ethics and a Critical Examination of the Ethical Code.
The Ninth Conference – The Ethics Bureau of Nurses in Israel: Who Decides for Me? Autonomy versus Forced Treatment, Kfar Maccabiah. May 15, 2014. Subject of lecture: Autonomy, Paternalism and Forced Medical Treatment.
Philosophy and Law Forum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 16, 2013. Blue and White Bioethics, Ono Academic College, Center for Health, Law and Bioethics. January 20–22, 2011. Paper presented: Patients' Prioritization under Scarcity.
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, The Economics and Society Program – Research Group on Equality, Fairness, Justice, and Solidarity of Social and Health Services. November 11, 2010. Paper presented: Theories of Distributive Justice and its Implementations in Healthcare.
Jerusalem Forum for Bioethics. October 27, 2010. Paper presented: Sufficiency of Capabilities – An Alternative Account for Healthcare Allocation.
"The Double-Agent Dilemma", Ono Academic College, Center for Health. Law and Bioethics. April 16, 2010. Paper presented: Mixed Agency – Philosophical Deliberation on Resolving Conflicting Values in Medical Practice.
Social Justice Forum, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Tel Hashomer. February 9, 2010. Paper presented: Self Inflicted Diseases – Do We Have a Moral Obligation Towards Imprudent Patients?
Gender, Health and Body: Changing Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem. April, 2001. Paper presented: Women, Sexuality and AIDS in Israel.
Israel AIDS Task Force Conference for Yosephtal Hospital’s Medical Staff, Eilat, 2001. Paper presented: The Physician’s Duties and the Special Sensitivity of the HIV Patient.
Israel AIDS Task Force Conference for Dentists, Tel Aviv, 2000. Paper presented: The AIDS Epidemic – How Do We Lessen Our Fears?
Israel AIDS Task Force Conference for High School Teachers, Tel Aviv, 2000. Paper presented: AIDS Prevention among Teenagers.
