Dr. Omer Shapira, senior lecturer in Ono Academic College Faculty of law, researches the ethics of mediation for many years. His book Use of Power and Influence in Mediation: Practice and Applied Ethics was published in 2007, and more recently A Theory of Mediators' Ethics: Foundations, Rationale, and Application (2016). His articles in the field of mediation have been published in foreign and Israeli journals. He heads the Mediators' Ethics Forum from 2012.