Our Team
WHO ARE WE?
To create the Corpus of Israeli Sign Language takes a big team.
Let’s meet the team!
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Project manager
Rose Stamp
Rose is a hearing researcher of sign language linguistics, working as a lecturer at Bar Ilan University. Rose came to Israel in 2014 from the

PhD student
Sara Lanesman
Sara was born deaf and grew up in Algeria. She completed her MA from the University of Central Lancashire in England, focused on the sign

Interviewer coordinator & branding manager
Ora Ohanin
Ora was born deaf into a deaf family. She is proficient in four languages: Israeli Sign Language is her native language, followed by Hebrew, American

Participant Recruiter & Trainer
Shlomi Bitton
Shlomi was born into a deaf family. He is a sign language teacher and a deaf-blind translator.In the Corpus Project, Shlomi started as an interviewer

Beer Sheva & Haifa Participant Recruiter
Karin Bitton
Karin was born into a deaf family. She lives in Ofakim in the South of Israel and had worked in the corpus project as a

Jerusalem Participant Recruiter
Avichai Shvo
Avichai was born and raised in Jerusalem. He is a third-generation deaf person, born into a deaf family and is a native signer of Israeli

Haifa Participant Recruiter
Debi Menashe
Debi is deaf, born to a deaf family, and a native signer of Israeli Sign Language. She was born in Haifa and has lived in

Beer Sheva Participant Recruiter
Dana Kadosh
Dana was born deaf. Her primary language is Israeli Sign Language. She grew up in Ofakim in the South of Israel, where she currently lives.

Beer Sheva Participant Recruiter
Eliran Ben Haroush
Eliran is a third-generation deaf person who lives in Be’er Sheva, capital of the Negev. In the corpus project, Eliran worked in data collection and

research assistant
Doron Finkelstein
Doron is a hearing person and a certified Israeli Sign Language interpreter since 2015. He holds a BA and a teaching certificate in special education

Research assistant
Shai Pipko
Shai joined the corpus project in 2020 as an undergraduate hearing research assistant after taking Dr. Stamp’s class about Sign Language Linguistics. She primarily worked

Research Assistant
Gregg Hoffman
Gregg is a hearing research assistant, originally from the U.S. He studied Linguistics and Psychology at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. After becoming an American

Research Assistant
Marina Cerebrinsky
Marina is a passionate hearing Argentinian linguist currently doing her MA at Bar Ilan University in Israel. She joined the corpus team as a research

Research Assistant
Muneera Abu Roken
Muneera is a hearing research assistant with a passion for languages, she speaks six languages (Arabic, Hebrew, English, Spanish, Japanese and Israeli Sign Language) at

Research Assistant
Shiran Ben-Meir
Shiran is hearing and has BSc and MSc degrees in Bioinformatics-Computational Biology from Bar-Ilan University. She joined the Corpus project in 2023 as a computational

Research assistant
Nitzan Barzilai
Nitzan is a hearing person and a certified Israeli Sign Language interpreter since 2019.She holds a BA in Linguistics and Foreign Literature from Ben Gurion

International consultant
Prof. Adam Schembri
Adam Schembri is a hearing professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK, but originally from Australia. His research interests focus on the linguistics

Computer Vision expert
Prof. Hagit Hel-Or

Advisory committee from the deaf community
Doron Levy
Doron is a deaf PhD student in neurolinguistics at the “Language and Mind” laboratory in Tel Aviv University, lecturer in the sign language interpreting program

Advisory committee from the deaf community
Etty Schwartzberg
Etty Schwartzberg is hard of hearing. She is the Chairwoman of the Israeli Deaf Association, as well as a teacher of ISL and a lecturer

Advisory Committee From The Deaf Community
Alon Zeno
Alon Zeno is deaf, fourth generation of a deaf family and ISL is his first language.Alon is a certified social worker and a theatre actor.