Barak Bar-Zohar

Barak Bar-Zohar (ברק בר-זוהר) was born on November 3rd, 1984 in Ra'anana, Israel. He is a communication researcher, historian and teacher education information scientist and Masa information portal editor at The Mofet Institute. Bar-Zohar earned his M.A. at the Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University and Completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled: Death, memory and myth: Death coverage of statesmen and cultural figures in Hebraic-Israeli newspapers 1904-1995. Throughout the years, Bar-Zohar published several articles and researches in the fields of journalism history, Israel studies, leadership and death studies.   Among other academic experiences, he served as a lecturer at the University of Haifa’s Department of English as a Foreign Language, as a teaching assistant at Raphael Recanati International School at the Interdisciplinary Center and as a research assistant at Sammy Ofer School of Communications at the Interdisciplinary Center and as an English teacher. Along with teammates, he composed analytic literature reviews about digital divide in higher education, educational innovation centers, educational leadership, second career teachers, Teacher placement centers, teacher recruitment, teacher shortage, technological-vocational education, digital competence in education and more. Bar-Zohar played football (soccer) for Hapoel Ra'anana youth and among other workplaces, he worked for Schnitzel Ayala restaurant (2002-2003), Park Cinema (2007-2009) and Delek Oil and fuel company (2011-2015). Bar-Zohar met Dana Hillel in December 2009 and married her in September, 2014. The couple have a son (born February 2017) and a daughter (born January, 2020).