Architect, Town Planner and Conservation Consultant. The head of the conservation unit, and a senior lecturer -at the Department of Architecture Bezalel. Between his works :Policy and conservation management for Jerusalem municipality, preservation of Zichron Yakov historic center ,Planning policy for Allenby street in Tel Aviv and the visitors center of Masada.

Shmuel is a founding member of  Bimkom-"Planners for Planning Rights", Graduated the Technion in Haifa (1978) and studied his Msc at the LSE in London (2006), and finished his PHD (2024) at the Ben Gurion University o, on the subject of: The "Wandering Archive" in Contested Heritage Sites" ,focusing on heritage and conservation of Palestinian towns inside Israel, the test case of Jerusalem Boulevard in Jaffa.

Selected Publications:
-“New Jaffa - Planning Modernity During the Mandate Period Between Henry Kendall and Ali Masoud.” Zmanim 143. (In Hebrew), 2020
-“Urban Planning of Jaffa”, More Than Bauhaus ,The Ar,2chitecture of the White City of Tel Aviv ,AADR,2019
-“Invisible Preservation: On the Relations between Conservation, Destruction and Erasure.” The Israeli Pavilion Catalogue, Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2008
-“Lubya in Lavie  Forest: Conservation of the Palestinian Built Heritage in Israel.”
-“Remembering, Forgetting and the Construction of Space Yacobi and  Fenster ed. Van Leer, (In Hebrew), 2011
-“Conservation and Oblivion.” Block no 04- Temporal Cities, p 33-36 (In Hebrew), 2007
-“The Politics of roads in Jerusalem” in: 'City of collision - Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism', Edited by: Rieniets Tim and Misselwitz Philip, p. 176-185, 2006

Ariel Handel is an interdisciplinary researcher. Teaches political theory and urbanism at Bezalel, Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University. He is the director of the Lexicon for Political Theory project and co-editor of Mafteakh-Muftah: Lexical Review of Political Thought. Ariel has published numerous journal papers and book chapters on issues of space, politics, power and violence. He is the editor-in-chief of The Political Lexicon of the Social Protest (Hakibutz Hameuchad, 2012), and co-editor of Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements (Indiana University Press, 2017).