Haggai Matar is a journalist for TelAviv Times, the local supplement of the daily national Ma'ariv, and a columnist for the new-media website MySay. He has served two years in military and civilian prisons for conscientious objection to joining the Israeli army and is an activist in Anarchists Against the Wall and New Profile—the movement for the de-militarization of the Israeli society. In recent months, he has also taken part in the J14 movement for social justice in Israel.
Anat Matar
Anat Matar is a senior lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. She has been an anti-occupation activist for many years. Currently, she serves on the steering-committee of Who Profits? — Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry and is the Chair of the Israeli Committee for the Palestinian Prisoners. Matar, along with Adv. Abeer Baker, has recently edited a collection of analyses and testimonies about Palestinian political prisoners entitled Threat—Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel (Pluto Press, 2011).
