Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Eliezer Ben-Rafael (Hebrew: אליעזר בן-רפאל; born 1938 in Belgium) is an Israeli sociologist. He is Weinberg Professor of Sociology, emeritus, at Tel Aviv University.

Ben-Rafael is known for his work on the kibbutz, on language and ethnicity in Israel, and on globalization and Jewish identity. He is editor of a series on Jewish identities for Brill Publishers.

Ben-Rafael is a former president of the International Institute of Sociology and former Chair of the Israeli Association for the Study of Language. Provided by Wikipedia