Hanna Herzog is professor emerita of Sociology at Tel Aviv University and the 2018 Emet Prize Laureate. Herzog is Co-Director and co-founder of Shavot (WIPS), the Center for Advancement of Women in the Public Sphere,  and Co-Director of Yodat Women and Israel's Gender Digital Knowledge Center. Herzog specializes in political sociology, ethnic relations, sociology of knowledge, generation as a sociological phenomenon, and sociology of gender. She has written numerous articles on the politics of ethnic and racial relations, women in politics and politics of women, Palestinian women citizens of Israel, Jewish women in the Holocaust, and gender, religion, and politics. As a scholar of Israeli society with special expertise in ethnic relations and gender issues, she has been invited to serve on many national committees. She has been active in the public sphere in lobbying for women’s issues and in the struggle against gender discrimination. Believing in gender mainstreaming she sees her role in research, teaching, and public activity as a tool to develop a new culture of gender equality and social justice.