Prof. Lihi Lahat, Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Sapir Academic College, has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF). The project has secured €300,000 in funding over the next two years to explore one of the most pressing challenges facing democracies today.

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The international research project, Welfare Systems’ Operation in Times of Democratic Backsliding: Conceptualizing the Future of Social Justice Informed Social Services, will examine how democratic backsliding affects welfare systems and social services, with a particular focus on the role of local government administrators. Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, the study will compare developments in Israel and Germany to better understand how public institutions can safeguard social justice during periods of democratic change.

The research brings together leading scholars from Israel and Germany, including Dr. Shahar Timor Shlevin and Dr. Noga Pitovsky Naveh of Bar Ilan University, Prof. Tanja Klenk and Prof. Sylvia Veit of Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, with Prof. Johnny Gal serving as the project's academic advisor.

The German Israeli Foundation (GIF) is one of the leading bilateral funding organizations supporting scientific collaboration between Israeli and German researchers. Receiving a GIF grant is considered a mark of academic excellence and international research leadership, recognizing projects with the potential to make a meaningful contribution to both scholarship and public policy.

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