My name is Noa Bloch. For my bachelor degree I studied both communication and journalism, and anthropology and sociology. During this time, I worked in a few jobs- all of which connected to the fields I studied and to my desire to influence life outside of the academy for the better through academic tools and research. I worked at the Jerusalem African community center, at the spokesperson office of the president of Israel and as a research assistant in the social research department of the National Parks Authority. I'm currently working as a research assistant in some of Liron Shani's studies, which focuses on the anthropology of nature, and am one of the administrators of the Facebook page he established with the aim of making anthropological studies accessible to the general public. This year, I will also take part in the "Friends and Foes" research group led by Prof. Zohar Kampf and Prof. Gadi Heimman, examining the translation of interpersonal connections into international relations. I am interested in many and varied areas of research, but due to the timing in which I begin my master's degree, I hope to focus on issues related to the social effects of war. I also wish to continue using theories and tools from the field of anthropology as well as communication. My mentor in the program is Prof. Zohar Kampf.