Editorial Board: Omega, Journal of Death and Dying (2003-present).
Editorial Board: Death Studies (2000-present).
Member, Ministry of Health, National Center for Organ Transplantation Blue Ribbon Committee assessing how to increase willingness to donate organs for transplantation in Israel. Tel Aviv, 2003 – 2004. Chairperson, Professor Rabbi Abraham Steinberg, MD.
Member – Ethics Committee for the Ministry of Health Haifa District Health Office, 200 – 2006
Reviewer in Hebrew: Israel Academy of Science Grant Proposals; Sichot-Israel Journal of Psychotherapy; Megamot Israel Journal; Chevra Veravcha- Social Work Quarterly; Bar Ilan University Press; Psychology (of the Israel Psychological Association); etc.
Reviewer in English: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry; Anxiety, Stress and Coping; Death Studies; Ethics and Behavior; Omega, Journal of Death and Dying; Israel Journal of Psychiatry; Readings – Orthopsychiatry; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP); etc.
Editor: Special Issue on Bereavement, Israel Journal of Psychiatry (with E. Witztum & R. Malkinson), 2002.
Member, Israeli Scientific Committee, UNESCO Bioethics Chair, beginning 2001; In association with Prof. Amnon Carmi and the International Center for Health, Law and Ethics at the University of Haifa.
Member: Hospital ethics committee, Bnai Tzion Medical Center, Haifa; 1995-1997.
Invited Participant: International Work Group on Grief and Bereavement, Oxford, England, June 25-30, 1995.
Member: Four Thousand Footer Club of the White Mountains, Appalachian Mountain Club – Climbed 48 official peaks in New Hampshire, (Initial ascent, 1972- Final ascent, 1995).
Member: Scientific Committee, Third National Symposium on Bereavement in Israeli Society, 1993-94.
Chairman: Committee on Ethics and Training, National Committee on Psychology, 1992-1994.
Member: Organizing and Program Committees, Second National Symposium on Bereavement in Israeli Society, 1990-91.
Member: Committees for the Ministry of Health Mental Health Services including: Planning for Mental Health Services in the Northern Region; Founding Member, Committee for Maintenance of National Standards for Community Mental Health in Israel; etc.; 1984- 1990’s.
Representative: Joint University-National Psychology Board Committee on Establishing Standards for University Accreditation in Clinical Psychology, 1988-1989.
Member: National Clinical (Vaadah Miktzoet), State of Israel, 1987-1988.
Governing Board (elected): Clinical Division, Israel Psychological Association; 1982-1984.
Chairperson: Committee on Continuing Education, Clinical Division, Israel Psychological Association; 1982-1984.
Participant (invited): National Conference on Mental Health Issues Related to the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. (Mental Health Consultant to Northern Illinois SIDS Regional Center). Baltimore, Maryland; February 23-25, 1977.
Fellowship recipient: Western Interstate Commission of Higher Education Fellowship in Mental Health and Retardation. California; Summer, 1970.