Dr. Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa. She serves as Research Fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Her research deals with intersections between mysticism, gender, and psychoanalysis. She headed a Research Group on "Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah" at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Her books: Holiness and Transgression: Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth (2017); The Feminine Messiah: King David in the Image of the Shekhina in Kabbalistic Literature (Brill 2021); Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis (De Gruyter 2022), winner of the Gorgias Press competition for Jewish Thought; Poetry: The World Has No Silence (2011); The Soul is Moved (Ritmus 2017).
Personal website: Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel | Haifa University - Academia.edu