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Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
About Yoram Bilu
- Yoram Bilu is an Israeli professor of anthropology and psychology emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- He is known for his work on folk religion (messianism, saint worship); the interaction between culture and mental health; the sanctification of space in Israel; and the religious and cultural practices of Moroccan Jews.
- He is recipient of 2013 the Israel Prize in sociology and anthropology.
- He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.He has been a member of the Israeli Society and of the American Association of Anthropology and serves as a member of the following scientific journals: Transcultural Psychiatry, Anthropology and Medicine, Contemporary Jewry.
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