Haim Hazan is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University, where he is also co-director of the Minerva Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of the End of Life. He is the author of several books, including The Limbo People; Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions; Managing Change in Old Age; A Paradoxical Community; From First Principles; Simulated Dreams: Israeli Youth and Virtual Zionism, and Serendipity in Anthropological Research: The Nomadic Turn (edited with Esther Herzog).