Raphaella Bilski

Raphaella Bilski is a member of the department of political science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. She specializes in modern political philosophy, welfare, social policy, and the subject of happiness. She is the author of Every Individual, a King: The Political and Social Thought of Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky (Dvir, Tel Aviv, and B'nai B'rith Books, New York), for which she received the Jabotinsky Prize. She is also the author of The Lure of Happiness (Carmel, Jerusalem). She was a director at the Van Leer Foundation (1977-1980) and a social and welfare policy adviser to Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Yitzhak Shamir, and Shimon Peres. From 1990 to 1992 she began taking care of a community of street cats living in her garden and has based this book on fourteen years of observation. She continues to take care of street cats and is about to write a second book on this subject. For new stories about new cats, see: http://jerusalemstreetcats.blogspot.co.il/