Workshop: Paths for Reconciliation 

Prof. Dr. Yaarah Bar-On is a social historian and Dean of the School of Education at the College of Management Academic Studies ("Colman") in Rishon LeZion, Israel. Between 1999 and 2002, she headed the Israeli Education Ministry department that oversaw implementation of peace education, pluralism and Civic education. Bar-On has published three books on the lives of women (in Hebrew): Crowded Delivery Room: Gender and Public Opinion in Early Modern Gynecology (2000); Sunrise in the Mediterranean: An American Women in the Labor Battalions (2005); and A Jewish Witch in the Court of Louis XIII (2011). She holds a doctorate from Tel Aviv University. 

Rim Assadi is an attorney and mediator, who earned a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Tel Aviv University, Israel. As part of her master's thesis, Rim discussed issues in the field of tort and distributive justice. She currently serves as the Director of the Clinic for Patient Rights at the Law faculty at the College of Management Academic Studies. Rim also works as an independent lawyer and a partner at Asadi Bilal & Co. law firm, she is currently engaged in the civil field with an emphasis on exercising medical rights and tort  
law.