Shalva Weil, D.Phil, FRHistS, is Senior Researcher at the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She has published over 150 articles in scientific journals, edited several books (OUP, Marg, Magnes, Palgrave-Macmillan and more), ran educational projects among Ethiopian immigrants in Israel, and a project for immigrant women from Caucasia in the FSU in Israeli slum neighborhoods. From 2013-2017, Prof. Weil served as Chair of the Cost Action IS1206 on Femicide Across Europe, heading a Management Committee of 80 people representing 30 countries, which signed a Memorandum of Understanding to combat femicide in Europe. During 2015-6, she addressed the Parliaments of Portugal, Aragon (Spain) and Rome on femicide, and was invited by ACUNS to three UN meetings on gender-related killings of women and girls in Bangkok, New York and Vienna. In 2018, the book Femicide across Europe, of which she was the lead editor, was published (Bristol University Press, Policy). She has since published scientific articles on female geronticide, femicide in Israel, femicide during covid-19, femicide observatories, and more. Her latest edited volume is Femicide in War and Peace (Routledge, 2023).
