Channa Pinchasi is Deputy Director of Be’eri and Director of the Be’eri School for Teacher Education at the Shalom Hartman Institute. She is a member of the inaugural graduating class of the Institute’s Maskilot program, having received her doctorate in gender studies from Bar-Ilan University; her thesis offers a feminist interpretation of Midrash Eicha Rabba. From 2001-2004, Channa was a representative of the Education Department of the Jewish Agency in Canada. Upon returning to Israel, she