Employed at the VLJI until 2020

Kineret is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on ultra-Orthodox Mizrahi educators who belong to a new civic elite emerging in ultra-Orthodox society in Israel, and on the ways in which they cope with the challenge of living together with others. Kineret is a graduate of the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students at Tel Aviv University and is the recipient of the 2017 President’s Prize for Excellence and Scientific Innovation. At the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, since 2017 Kineret has coordinated the research group titled From a Sociology of Suspicion to a Sociology of Meaning: About Living Together within the Boundaries of Liberal Thought and Beyond. In 2020 she became the academic coordinator and program director of the Challenge of Living Together area.