Yaara Rosner-Manor of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship for Scientific Excellence and Innovation 2015. This year’s topic was: “Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Points of Contention and Connection in and between Religions, Cultures, Languages and Peoples.”
Yaara will use the fellowship to complete her study of opportunities to create a new planning system for Bedouin settlement in the Negev, primarily the unrecognized villages, which, on the one hand, answers the needs of the community, and, on the other hand, adheres to the planning and building laws of the State of Israel.
Last year, Yaara won the Israel Planners Association Prize for Best Student Research Thesis, for her thesis entitled: “Spatial Patterns of Bedouin Unrecognized Settlements in the Negev: the Kasser a-Sir case study.” The thesis was supervised by Dr. Yodan Rofè and Dr. Sarab Abu-Rabia – Queider from the “Bona Terra” Department of Man in the Desert. The prize is an annual national competition between all students of planning in Israel.
Her advisor Dr. Yodan Rofe concluded, we “can all be proud that we have been blessed with a student like Yaara.”
Ph.D. Student Avi-Ram Zoref of the Department of Jewish History has also been awarded a Presidential Fellowship
The fellowships will be awarded at a ceremony at the Presidential Residence on December 17, 2015.
