Daphna Hacker

After attending Rene Cassin Alliance High School and serving in the IDF, Hacker earned her LL.B in 1994 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] She then moved to North America where she graduated with an LL.M. at the Washington College of Law in 1996 (sum com laude).[2]

From 1993 to 1994, Hacker was a research assistant for Michael Atlan at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law Faculty. From there, she worked as a law clerk at Veisglass-Almagor Law Firm and was later admitted to the Israel Bar Association. By 2000, Hacker was teaching at Tel Aviv University. Originally a teacher in their Sociology and Anthropology department, she was promoted to assistant professor at the Law Faculty and the Women and Gender Studies Program by 2005.[3] In 2007, she began advocating for legislation ratifying Israeli law that treats single or married women differently.[4] She described that she has received bodily threats from men's rights organizations for her advocacy, including the slashing of her tires, threatening phone calls, and calls to her employer.[5]

After receiving a grant from the New Israel Fund, Hacker joined the Israeli Women's Network (IWN) and served for a decade as a Board Member of the Itach-Maaki Women Lawyers for Social Justice organization.[6] In 2010, she received a nomination to the Young Scholars in Humanities and Social Science Forum of the Israeli Academy of Science.[7]

In 2011, Hacker resigned from the Governmental Committee on Parental Responsibility upon Divorce.[8] The following year, she published Family Issues from a Legal Perspective through the Modan Publishing House and the Ministry of Defense.[9] In 2013, she was awarded the Katan Award for the Advancement of Gender Justice through Voluntary Work.[3] For her work on women in Israel, she was the inaugural winner of the "Small Signal award," named after Yossi Klein, whom the non-profit Female Spirit Association gives to women who volunteer for gender justice.[10]

Beginning in 2014, she became the chief editor of Tel-Aviv University Law Review.[3]

In 2018, she was appointed head of the gender program at Tel Aviv University.[11] As well, her book Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization,[12] published by the Cambridge University Press, won the 2018 LSA Herbert Jacob Book Prize.[13]