987 Prof. Tova Band-Winterstein, Ph.D Chapter on page 831 Chair-woman of the Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Aging, She is an associate professor at the Department of Gerontology and chair of the PhD. program, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel. During the last years, her qualitative research focused on various aspects on marginalized population in old age. Throughout her career she has been asked by various international organizations and Universities to share both methodological and subject matter related knowledge. twinters@research.haifa.ac.il; Dr. Dorit Barak Chapter on page 743 researcher, lecturer and activist in a variety of platforms, among them academia, self-advocacy, and self-management programs of people with disabilities. For the past 10 years, Dr. Barak has been an academic consultant for Elwyn Israel and Beit Izzy Shapira associations, specifically for a program that develops a network of self-advocacy groups of people with cognitive disability in Israel. doritbrk@gmail.com Dr. Lital Barlev Chapter on page 651 Senior research scholar and Disabilities Team leader, the Myers-JDCBrookdale Institute (MJB), Israeli center for applied social research. BA in behavioral sciences from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. MA in organizational psychology from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. PhD in social work at the University of Haifa.Primary research areas: children with disabilities, housing for people with disabilities, and their participation in society, collection and analysis of data on Israelis with disabilities and the implications for social policy. LitalB@jdc.org Adi Ben Hamo Chapter on page 627 Has an academic degree of M.ED in special education, and a professional expertise in evaluating and teaching students with
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