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Development Team and Sources of Support

The MBCD Website is based on research performed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Ohio State University by a team led by Prof. Itamar Gati.
The team specializes in studying career decision-making in general, including difficulties encountered when making career decisions, the strategies used and the compromises involved, and developing computer-assisted career guidance systems that facilitate the decision-making process.

Current Team members

Head of Team: Prof. Itamar Gati Gati's CV.
Members of Team: Dr. Yuliya Lipshits-Braziler, Dr. Tirza Willner, Dr. Tony Gutentag, Mr. Nathaniel Yaloz, Ms. Michal Slama, Ms. Noam Dahan, Ms.Shada Kashkoush.
Associate members: Dr. Nimrod Levin.

Previous Team members

Dr. Yasmin Abofoul, Neta Abramovich, Dr. Shira Agasi, Dr. Tami Amir, Dr. Itay Asher, Hadas Ben-Ari, Liat Barkai-Goodman, Eitan Bocian, Ruth Bouganim, Tair Buzaglo, Ran Cohen, Michal Eliakim, Tali Ever-Hadani, Naomi Fassa, Prof. Reuma Gadassi, Dr. Leah Israelevitch, Valentina Izrailevitch, Dr. Liat Kibari, Prof. Tali Kleiman, Dr. Mina Krausz, Dr. Shiri Landman-Tal, Prof. Samuel Osipow, Maya Perez, Gal Ram, Dr. Aluma Reiss, Prof. Noa Saka, Dr. Aviva Shimoni, Adi Tene, Dr. Dana Vertsberger, Ido Wiesel.

The development team thanks the following people for their cooperation and assistance in the development and research:

Dr. Yitzhak Garty - Former Director of the Hadassah Career Counseling Institute.
Prof. Ofra Nevo - University of Haifa.
Adina Orenshtein - Department of Counseling, Office of Education.
Aida Stronegin and the career counselors at the Hadassah Career Counseling Institute.

Funding and support for the research and development of the questionnaire were obtained from:

The USA-Israel Binational Science Foundation
School of Education and Department of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chief Scientist - Department of Education
The NCJW Institute for Research for Innovation
Israel Science Foundation
The Horovitz Foundation