Biography
Dr. Hanna David
Dr. Hanna David
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Biography: 
Hanna David PhD, was born in Jaffa in 1952, the second in a 4-child family. At age 15 years she became a youth-writer of "MA'ARIV LA'NOAR" – the youth edition of the then largest daily Israeli paper. Since the age of 18 she published many Hebrew short stories in various magazines; later she also published a Hebrew novel, a few English short stories, and translations of prose – mainly from German. She studies mathematics, physics and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in; 1975 she received her MA from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and gave birth to her three sons. In 1976-2004 Dr. David belonged to the academic staff of the Tel Aviv University. Hanna David received her PhD, "magna cum laude", in educational psychology (minors: didactics of mathematics and education) from Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München in 2003. In 2003-2006 she conducted many studies at the Erika Landau Institute. Since 1995 Dr. David was a lecturer at The Talpiyot College, The Givat Washington College, the Arab College of Sakhnin, The Efrata College, the Ben Gurion University and the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Dr. David's interest in giftedness started at the age of 11. Teaching and counseling the gifted became Hanna's recognized expertise in 1995, when she taught the course: "the gifted child in the regular classroom" or the first time. Since then she had instructed many hundreds of students in the field of gifted education. In the last 20 years Dr. David has become a well-known counselor for gifted students, with or without disabilities; an expert of gifted education in Israel and abroad, an often invited lecturer in national and international conferences and meetings; an expert evaluator for the European commission, and a prolific writer of 15 books and about 200 scientific papers and book-chapters.