We are deeply saddened to learn of the tragic passing of our friend and colleague Dr. Tally Kritzman-Amir, a Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative (RCPI) affiliate and a leading young scholar of refugee studies, immigration, and human rights, after a brave battled with cancer. Read more about Tally's life in this remembrance.

Dr. Tally Kritzman-Amir is a Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University (2018-2020) as an Israel Institute fellowship recipient, and a Senior Lecturer of immigration and international law at the College of Law and Business, Israel. Kritzman-Amir received her LLB and PhD from Tel Aviv University (2002 & 2009), and has since been one of the leading immigration and asylum law and policy experts in Israel. She authored dozens of articles and edited a book on refugees and asylum in Israel from a comparative socio-legal perspective. Kritzman-Amir was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University (2006-7), a Hauser Research scholar at NYU (2008-9), Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (2010-5), a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program and a Scholar-in-Residence and an Honorary Research Affiliate at the Hadassah Brandeis Institute (2017-18, 2019-20)