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Dr. Gal Yavetz

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Dr. Gal Yavetz is a senior faculty member in the Department of Information Science and applied AI at Bar-Ilan University. His research and teaching focus on government and public information in data- and knowledge-rich digital environments. He has published approximately 30 articles in international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of technology, government, and society. He is also a research fellow at the Center for Applied Research on Risks to Democracy at Tel Aviv University.
 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Gal Yavetz

Email: gal.yavetz@biu.ac.il

 

Research Interests: GenAI, Digital Government, Political Communication, Crisis Communication

Education

  • Ph.D (2014 – 2020( Bar-Ilan University, Department of Information Science. Dissertation Title: "Government Knowledge Management and Information Behavior Processes through Social Media Platforms: The Israeli Case Study".
    Advisor: Prof. Noa Aharony.
  • M.A. (2010-2014) Tel Aviv University, Media and Communication Department.
    Thesis Title: "Blood Brothers Online: The Construction of Social Media Platforms for Hemophilia Organizations". Advisor: Dr. Elad Segev.

  • B.A (2007-2010) The Open University of Israel, Social Sciences and Communication (cum laude).

Awards, Scholarships & Grants

  • German-Israeli Foundation (GIF): "Modelling and Analyzing Discourse Dynamics within and between Echo Chambers". June, 2026

  • Research grant from "Bar-Ilan Dangoor Centre for Personalized Medicine". Research title: "The Role and Use of Social Media Platforms for Government Information during the Covid-19 Outbreak in Israel". Researchers: Noa Aharony and Gal Yavetz. May 2020. 

  • Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Doctoral Colloquium, October 2016, Humboldt University of Berlin.

  • Outstanding Teaching Award (Top 100 Rector's list) Tel-Aviv University, 2014.

  • Rector's award for outstanding teachers, Tel-Aviv University, 2013

  • Gershom Komarov Scholarship for scholarly achievements in Communication, Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University (May 2012).

 

Academic Ranks and Appointments  

2026 - Present: Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Science and Applied AI, Bar-Ilan University.

2023 – 2026: Lecturer, Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University.

2021 – 2023: Teacher, Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University.

2020- 2021: Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Instructional Technologies at Holon Institute of Technology.

2017- 2021: Teaching Fellow, Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University.

2013 – 2015: Research Assistant, The Participatory Social Marketing Program, Tel Aviv University.

2013- 2014: Teaching Assistant, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University.

2012- 2014: Academic Coordinator, Institute for Internet Studies, Tel Aviv University.

2011- 2015: Instructor, Department of Communication., Tel Aviv University.

 

Teaching Experience

Courses taught at Bar-Ilan University:

  • Government information
  • Marketing of information services
  • Issues in New Media
  • Research Methods
  • Qualitative Research 

 

Active participation in scholarly conferences 

  • Yavetz, G. (2026). Shadow-AI in the Israeli workplace. Annual Knowledge Management Conference, Bar-Ilan University, July 2026.

  • Yavetz, G. (2026). European Conference on Social Media (ECSM), Larnaca, Cyprus. 2026. 

  • Vasiliu, V & Yavetz, G., AI: Friend or Foe? Concerns and Willingness to Embrace AI technologies in Israel. Paper presented at the
    General Online Research Conference (Gor). Cologne, Germany, February 2024.
  • Yavetz, G. Studying government communication during times of political turbulence and polarization: Challenges and barriers. Paper presented at the ECPR general conference. Prague, Czech Republic, September 2023.
  • Peled, R & Yavetz, G., Does Information Matter? The Impact of Archival Disclosure on Public Discourse in the Yemenite Children Affair. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS), New York University, New-York, June 2023.
  • Information under Fire: Social Media Usage by Local Authorities in Israel during the Guardian of the Walls Operation. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS), Bar-Ilan University, June 2022.
  • Information under lockdown: content analysis of government information on social media during COVID-19 onset. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Association of Political Science (ISPSA), University of Haifa, May 2022.

  • Yavetz, G. (2021). Blurred borders or separation of powers? The standardization of Facebook in government organizations. Paper Presented at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Society. Sapir Academic College

  • Yavetz, G., & Aharony, N. (2021). Government Information during COVID-19 crisis in Israel. Paper presented at the conference for Communication in Time of Corona 2021. Ariel Universiy,  January 2021. 

  • Yavetz, G. (2017). Governmental information in the social network. Paper presented at INFO2017 - The 32nd annual conference & exhibition, Teldan, Tel-Aviv, May 2017.

  • Yavetz, G., & Segev, E. (2014). Blood Brothers Online: A Cross National Study of Social Media for Health Organizations. Paper Presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Israeli Communication Association. Netanya Academic College.

  • Yavetz, G., & Segev, E. (2013). A Cross National Study of Social Media Platforms for Hemophilia Organizations. Paper Presented at the 5TH Israeli Conference for science Communication. Tel Aviv University, Israel.

  • Yavetz, G., & Segev, E. (2013). The Construction of Social Media Platforms for Hemophilia Patients. Paper Presented at Medicine 2.0 - the 6th World congress on Social Media, Mobile apps, and web. 2.0. London, UK.

  • Yavetz, G. (2012). ICTs Adoption in Hemohpilia Organizations: the case of Aleh. A Paper Presented at Metaksherim, The 9th Conference for Communication Research students. Haifa University, Israel.

 

Conferences Organized

  • Co-Chair - "The networked authority"- full-day symposium at INFO2017 - The 32nd annual conference & exhibition, organized by Teldan, Tel-Aviv, May 2017.

  • Co-Organizer - The 3th Conference for Doctoral Internet Research. Orange Institute for Internet Studies. Tel-Aviv University, March 2014.

 

Invited Lectures and Guest Speaker

  • Studying government communication during times of political turbulence and polarization: Challenges and barriers. FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Tech in Democracy Workshop, Berlin, July 2025.

  • Education, society, and culture in the age of artificial intelligence. Faculty Colloquium, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion, January 2025.

  • Double digital identity as a new framework for studying state officials. School of Communication Faculty Seminar, Bar-Ilan University, February 2024.

  • Methodologies and frameworks in government communication research (invited panelist). ECPR General Conference, Czech Republic, September 2023.

  • Political leaders around the world and their multiple identities. 35th Annual Teldan Conference, Tel Aviv, 2022.

  • Government Information in the Days of Covid-19: The Use of Social Networks at the Time of the Outbreak. Talk given at the Israel National Defense College, April 2021.

  • Government information in the age of Coronavirus. Talk given at the Brookdale Program. Bar-Ilan university, January 2021.

  • Fake News in the age of Social Media. Talk given at the Information Science department colloquia. Bar-Ilan university, December 2019

  • Social Government 2.0. Talk presented at the Interdisciplinary core courses program, Tel- Aviv university, 2016.

  • Introduction to social networks. Talk presented at the interdisciplinary core courses program, Tel- Aviv university, 2015.

  • Digital innovations in health promotion. Talk presented at the School of Public Health Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 2014.

  • Changes in Consumption Habits: The Social Media Marketing Effect, Tel Aviv University, April 2013.

  • Past, Present and Future: The Internet and the Third Age. Eshel – Association for the Elderly People of Israel, Joint Distribution Committee, December 2012.

  • Hemophilia Patients in Israel. Invited Speaker at Introduction to Hematology Course. Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, October 2011.

 

Organizations Membership

Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIST)

Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)

Israeli Communication Association (ISCA)

 

Courses

  • Government and Leadership in the age of AI

  • Marketing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

  • Issues in Emerging Technologies (Research seminar)

  • Methodological Applications in Information Sciences

  • Robots and Society 

Publications

 

Publications 

Refereed articles in scientific journals

  1. Yavetz, G., & Nakash, M. (2026). Adopting GenAI applications in the workplace: Managerial implications and insights from ICT professionals. EuroMed Journal of Business. https://doi.org/10.1108/EMJB-08-2024-0217

  2. Yavetz G, Peruta A, Brazão V, Schneider EJ (2026;), "Communicating under fire: higher education communication on social media during the Israel–Hamas war". Corporate Communications: An International Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/CCIJ-07-2025-0184

  3. Harari R, Yavetz G., Aharony N. (2026). "Barriers to the use of digital government among the Arab population in Israel – A case study of digital divide". Online Information Review, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-10-2024-0669

  4. Vasiliu, V., Shibli, H., & Yavetz, G. (2025). Social media, anxiety, and ethnic disparities: The case of the Jewish and Arab Population groups following October 7 in Israel. Media, War & Conflict. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506352251392725

  5.  Yavetz, G., Zumofen, R., & Mabillard, V. (2025). Trust in Government and Media Consumption During an Armed Conflict: The Case of the Israeli Public During the Swords of Iron War. Armed Forces & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327X251365854

  6. Yadlin, A., Yavetz, G., & Bronstein, J. (2025). Online Emotional Landscape of Government and Parliament Communication in Times of Crisis. Media and Communication, 13, Article 10335. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.10335

  7. Ziv, L., & Yavetz, G. (2025). On the Strength of Weak Ties: Barriers to Political Expression Online. Social Sciences, 14(6), 360. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14060360
  8. Ben Shoushan, S. M., & Yavetz, G. (2025). To Facebook and beyond: Government space agencies’ communication strategies in the digital age. Space Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spacepol.2025.101702
  9. Ahmed, W., Hardey, M.(M). and Yavetz, G. (2025), "Health information communication and advocacy in the haemophilia community: an X-based analysis", Journal of Documentation, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-09-2024-0224
  10. Yavetz, G. (2025). Populist rhetoric and digital politics: a case study from a Facebook campaign in Israel’s 2022 elections. Cogent Social Sciences, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2025.2476048
  11. Ziv, L. and Yavetz, G. (2025) Navigating the political minefield: strategies for online participation in a polarized society. Frontiers in Communication. http://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1528169
  12. Yavetz, G., & Vasiliu, V. (2025). Two Minutes to Midnight: The 2024 Iranian Missile Attack on Israel as a Live Media Event. Journalism and Media, 6(1), 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia6010002
  13. Mabillard, V., Zumofen, R., Yavetz, G., Bronstein, J. Responding to the October 7th attack: Analyzing Israeli public organizations’ crisis communication and citizen engagement on social media. Risk hazard and crisis in public policy. (Forthcoming).
  14. Vasiliu, V. and Yavetz, G. (2024), "Who’s afraid of AI? socio-technological perspectives on artificial intelligence in the workforce: an Israeli case study", Aslib Journal of Information Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-12-2023-0562
  15. Yavetz, G. (2024), "Political familiarity vs. journalism background: insights from three Israeli prime ministers on social media", Online Information Review. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-08-2023-0402
  16. Peled, R. and Yavetz, G. (2024), "Does information matter? Online discourse on the Yemenite children’s affair in Israel after release of archival documents", Journal of Documentation. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2024-0010
  17. Yavetz,G., (2024ׁׁ). Iron Screens – Information and Media Consumption During the Swords of Iron War. Media Frames (In Hebrew). https://mediaframes.sapir.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IronScreens…
  18. Yavetz, G., Cohen, T & Zamir., L. (2024) The dual use of social media by Naftali Bennett during his brief premiership: A double-edged sword?. Israel Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2024.2318162
  19. Rozenthal, S., Greenberg, R., Yavetz, G., Allen, S., & Abrhamoff, S. E. (2024). Quantitative characteristics for predicting engagement of job search posts in Facebook groups. Meidaat: Journal for the Information Community. https://is.biu.ac.il/node/4575 (In Hebrew)
  20. Atad, E., Lev-On, A., & Yavetz, G. (2023). Diplomacy under fire: Engagement with governmental versus non-governmental messages on social media during armed conflicts. Government Information Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2023.101835
  21. Yavetz, G., & Aharony, N. (2023). Information under lockdown: A content analysis of government communication strategies on Facebook during the COVID-19 outbreak. Heliyon, 9(4), e15562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15562
  22. Yavetz, G., Bronstein, J. (2023). Cities under fire: Crisis communication on home front versus frontline cities' Facebook pages during operation ‘guardian of the walls’. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 1– 10. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12448
  23. Yavetz, G., & Aharony, N. (2022). The Users’ Point of View: Towards a Model of Government Information Behavior on Social Media. Heliyon. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10146
  24. Yavetz, G., Aharony, N. and Sofer, Y.Y. (2022), "Information needs and seeking behaviors of Israeli citizens during the COVID-19 outbreak", Aslib Journal of Information Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-06-2021-0167
  25. Yavetz, G. (2021), “Bibi and Mr. Prime Minister: do different Facebook identities imply different messages for political leaders?”, Online Information Review. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-01-2021-0004
  26. Yavetz, G,. and Aharony, N. (2021). Social Media for Government Information Dissemination: Content, Characteristics and Civic Engagement. Aslib Journal of Information Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-07-2020-0201
  27. Lev-on, A., and Yavetz, G. (2020). Police in social media: To protect and share?. First Monday, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i1.10459
  28. Yavetz, G. and Aharony, N. (2020), "Social media in government offices: usage and strategies", Aslib Journal of Information Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-11-2019-0313
  29. Guttman, N., Lev, E., Segev, E., Ayecheh, S., Ziv, L., Gadamo, F., Dayan, N., Yavetz, G. (2018). I never thought I could get health information from the Internet!?: Unexpected uses of an Internet website designed to enable Ethiopian immigrants with low/no literacy skills to browse health information. New Media & Society, 146144481771293. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444817712937

Refereed conferences proceedings

Lev-On, A and Yavetz, G. (2019). Unknown Territories The strategy of social media usage by law enforcement agencies. Proceedings of ICDS 2019: The Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments, Athens, Greece (pp. 68-71). 

 

Non-Peer reviewed publications

  1. Yavetz, G. (2024). Public data of Information and Media Consumption During the Swords of Iron War. Israeli Internet Association Journal. Retrieved from https://www.isoc.org.il/sts-data/iron-screens

  2. Yavetz, G. (2022). Media fatigue in Israel: problems and consequences of increased information consumption in the days of the Coronavirus. A journal for multidisciplinary research of Internet and society in Israel. ISOC-IL.  https://www.isoc.org.il/research/magazine/covid_media_fatigue

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Videos of public lectures: 

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Last Updated Date : 07/09/2026