מוחמד ותד

פרופ' מוחמד ותד


Prof. Mohammed Wattad
מוסד עיקרי

המכללה האקדמית לישראל ברמת-גן

The Ramat Gan Academic College

טלפון
050-4431113
דוא״ל
mswattad1 at gmail.com
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דיסציפלינות ראשיותMain Disciplines
Ethics, Law, Political Science
דיסציפלינות משניותSecondary Disciplines
Bioethics, Civil Rights and Human Rights Law, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Jurisprudence (Philosophy of Law), Public International Law
תחומי מחקר / מילות מפתחKeywords
Health and law, Institutional law, International criminal law, Law of war
פרסומים ויצירות עיקריים / עדכנייםMain / Recent Publications

  • Meir Elran, Ephraim Lavie, Meni Itzhaki, and Mohammed S. Wattad, “Recommendations for the Policy for National Struggle against Violence and Crime in the Arab Society in Israel,” Special Publication (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (27.10.2021) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Yael Efron, Yossi Korazim-Kőrösy & Mohammed S. Wattad, “Multi-disciplinarity and Inter-disciplinarity in Law” (Forthcoming, 73(2) Cleveland State Law Review, 2025) (English) (equal contribution) [will be published as the “lead article”].

  • Mohammed S. Wattad ed., Memorializing Justice Salim Joubran R.I.P. (Self Publication, 2024) (Arabic).

  • Asaf Harduf & Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Enigma of Rape: Physics, Chemistry, and Conceptualization” (Forthcoming, 33(3) Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2024) (English) (equal contribution).

  • Ephraim Lavie, Meir Elran, and Mohammed S. Wattad, “Neglecting the Struggle Against Crime in Arab Society Is a Threat to Israel’s National Security” 1870 General Review (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (24.06.2024) [4 pages] (Hebrew/English) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad & Rinat Kitai-Sangero, “Criminal Indictment from a Constitutional Law Perspective” in Neal Hendel Book (Forthcoming, 2024) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Menachem Hofnung & Mohammed S. Wattad, “Judiciary Under Attack: Judicial and Legislative Politics in Israel” (Forthcoming, Political Research Quarterly, 2024) (English) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, Medical Law in Israel (Forthcoming, 6th ed., Aspen Publishers, Inc., Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2024) (English) [an updated version of a previous publication in 2022].

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, Yaron Zilberstein & Yael Efron, “Words of Religious Obligation: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of the ‘Muezzin Law’ Dispute as a Legal Conflict with Religious Dimensions” (Forthcoming, Jewish Law Annual, a special issue honoring Prof. Gideon Libson, 2024) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Rinat Kitai-Sangero & Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Constitutionalization of Criminal Law,” in Oxford Handbook of the Israeli Constitution (Forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2024) (English) (equal contribution).

  • Tamar Hostovsky-Brandes, Gonen Ilan, Mohammed S. Wattad, and Inbal Mimon-Blau “Constitutional Enrichment: Timing and Essence – Considerations in Legislating Basic Law: The Legislation” (The Institute for Israeli Thought, 2024) (Hebrew).

  • Yael Efron, Yossi Korazim-Kőrösy & Mohammed S. Wattad, “Welfare, Policy & Multi- and Interdisciplinary in Law” (Forthcoming, Social Security, 2024) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, Yossi Korazim-Kőrösy & Yael Efron, “Introduction: Law and…– Between Theory, Research and Practice” in Law and…– The Interfaces of Law with other Disciplines 9 (Nevo Publication, 2023) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Aharon Barak, Mohammed S. Wattad, Gad Barzilai (R.I.P) & Dorit Fridman eds., Justice Salim Joubran Book (Nevo Publication, 2023) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Alonit Bernson & Mohammed S. Wattad, “Terror and the Internet: Can the Two Walk Together?” in Law and…– The Interfaces of Law with other Disciplines 33 (Nevo Publication, 2023) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Ephraim Lavie, Meir Elran, Mohammed S. Wattad, Esteban Klor, Tomer Fadlon, and Derek Lief, “Reducing Budget Allocation for the Arab Sector May Harm Internal Security” 1753 General Review (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (20.08.2023) (Hebrew/English) (equal contribution).

  • Ephraim Lavie, Mohammed S. Wattad, and Meir Elran, “The Spiking Number of Homicides in Israeli Arab Society” 1725 General Review (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (16.05.2023) (Hebrew/English) (equal contribution).

  • Meir Elran, Ariel Heimann, Moran Deitch, Mohammed S. Wattad, Eohraim Lavie, Esteban Klor, Ofer Shelah, Pnina Sharvit Baruch, Jony Essa, and Tomer Fadlon, “The Internal Scene: The Necessity to Crystalize Responses to the Internal Security and Econonmic Challenges,” in Stratigic Analysis for Israel 59 (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (2023) (Hebrew) [7 pages] (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad & Zaid Falah, “When the Solicitor Becomes a Perpetrator by Means of Another” in Miriam Naor Book: For the Honor of Chief Justice Miriam Naor 467 (Ali Mishpat Journal and Nevo Publication, 2023) (Hebrew) (First Author) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, Yossi Korazim-Kőrösy & Yael Efron eds., Law and…– The Interfaces of Law with other Disciplines (Nevo Publication, 2023) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, Ephraim Lavie, Moran Deitch, and Meir Elran, “Why Do Not the Arab Citizens Join the Protests Against the Government?” 1703 General Review (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (28.03.2023) (Hebrew/English) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, Zhanyang Liu, and Derek Lief, “What Deters the Arab Population from the Protests?” 1746 General Review (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (18.07.2023) (Hebrew/English) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Jewish and Arabs in Israel: Dancing Toward a Better Future,” in Seventy-Five Facets to a Jewish State 200 (The Jewish People Policy Institute, 2023) (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Jewish and Arabs in Israel: Dancing Toward a Better Future,” in Seventy-Five Facets to a Jewish State 410 (The Jewish People Policy Institute, 2023) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Judicial Diplomacy: The Israeli Version of the Ripeness Doctrine,” in Yaakov Neeman Book 625 (Nevo Press and Harry Saker Press, 2023) (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Substantive Criminal Law and Human Dignity,” in Justice Salim Joubran Book 895 (Nevo Publication, 2023) (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Legal Status of the Arabic Language Following the Nation-State Basic-Law” in Commentary on Basic Law: Israel – The Nation State of the Jewish People 339 (Israel Democracy Institute Press, 2023) (Hebrew).

  • Wattad, M. S. (2023). Romantics in Israel's Legal Politics: Arabic Through The Lens of the Partition Plan. UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, 20.

  • Y Efron, MS Wattad (2023) Speaking Arabic in Israel:" He Whose Hand Is in the Water Is Not like Whose Hand Is in the Fire". Cardozo J. Conflict Resol. 24, 1

  • Zaid Falah, Tal Mimran & Mohammed S. Wattad, “Organized Criminals as Terrorists” 33(1) Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 1 (2023) (English) [was published as the “lead article”] (equal contribution).

  • Ephraim Lavie, Mohammed S. Wattad, Aref abu Guider, Ilham Shahbari, Jony Essa, and Meir Elran, “The Arab Society in Israeli Following the Knesset 25th Elections,” 1661 General Review (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (16.11.2022) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Medical Law in Israel / Wattad, Mohammed S. - Alphen aan den Rijn : Wolters Kluwer, 2022 - 192 p.

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Lawyering: Prestigious Language as a Condition for the Profession’s Prestige,” The Courts’ Magazine 23 (December, 2021) (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Protecting Human Dignity also under Substantive Criminal Law – How?” Rights.Discourse@Minerva Blog – the Minerva Center for Human Rights (31.10.2022) (Hebrew).

  • Wattad, M. S. (2022). Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State.
    Routledge Companion to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Routledge

  •  Esteban Klor, Ephraim Lavie, Meir Elran, Mohammed S. Wattad, and Tomer Fadlon, “The Five-Year Plan for Developing the Arab Society in Israel: Concluding Plan No. 922 and Lessons from the New Five-Year Plan No. 550,” 25(3) Stratigic Assessment 3 (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (22.11.2022) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Wattad, M.S. (2021). Crime, Guilt and Punishment: Dignifying Criminal Law. In: Ghanayim, K., Shany, Y. (eds) The Quest for Core Values in the Application of Legal Norms . Springer, Cham.

  • Wattad, M. (2021). The Nation State Law and the Arabic Language in Israel: Downgrading, Replicating or Upgrading? Israel Law Review, 54(2), 263-285.

  • Moran Deitch, Meir Elran, Mohammed S. Wattad, Ephraim Lavie, and Idit Shafran Gittleman “Findings of a Survey in Jewish-Arab Relations” (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (03.12.2023) (Hebrew/English) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Country is Full of Lawyers, and I Say – For the Better,” 48 The Lawyer – Israel’s Bar Association Journal 38 (December, 2021) [Special Issue for the 60th of the Israeli Bar Association] (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, "UFO": When the American Doctrine of Ripeness Visited Israel, 9 Penn. St. J.L. & Int'l Aff. 1 (2021).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad et. al., “Common Future for the Israeli Society: Strengthening the Societal Power,” (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University, 2021) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).


  • Mohammed S. Wattad & Yael Efron, “Providing Accessibility to Law Studies to the Northern Periphery: An Apparatus for Patching the Gaps and Developing Social Commitment and Multicultural Sensitivity,” Israel’s Bar Association (13.05.2021) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Ephraim Lavie, Mohammed S. Wattad, Orit Perlov, Moran Deitch, and Meir Elran, “The Arab Society in Israeli Following the Knesset 37th Elections,” 1693 General Review (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (20.02.2023) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Between Act and Omission: Constitutional Consequences,” Israel’s Bar Association (13.07.2020) (Hebrew).

  • Yael Efron, Michelle LaBron, Maged Senbel and Mohammed S. Wattad, “Like a Prayer? Applying the Theory of Conflicts with Religious Dimensions to the “Muezzin Law” 63 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 119 (2020) (English) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Legal Status of the Arabic Language Following Basic-Law the Nation,” ICON-S-IL Blog, (07.01.2020) (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Constitutionalizing Israel’s Substantive Criminal Law: Subject versus Object,” Israel’s Bar Association (15.06.2020) (Hebrew).

  • Khalid Ghanayim, Mohammed S. Wattad, Yoram Rabin and Yaniv Vaki, "Rethinking the English “Born Alive Rule”: Comparative and Doctrinal Study" 26(2) ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law 1 (2020) (English) [was published as the “leading article”] (equal contribution).

  • Ephraim Lavie, Mohammed S. Wattad, Moran Deitch, Rebecca Meler, Rebecca Meller, and Meir Elran, “Arab-Jewish Relations Against the Backdrop of the War” 1805 General Review (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (27.12.2023) [5 pages] (Hebrew/English) (equal contribution).

  • Efron, Y., & Wattad, M. S. (2020). When "Allahu Akbar" Becomes a Crime: The Israeli Case. Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, 18.

  • Raphael Cohen-Almagor & Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Legal Status of IsraeliArabs/Palestinians in Israel” 1 GNLU Law & Society Review 1 (2019) (English) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Nation-State Law and the Relationships between the State of Israel and Its Arab Citizens,” 5 Hedim [Echoes] (March, 2019) (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “A Vision of Citizenship: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State,” in Israeli Convention – 75 Contemplations on the Future of the State of Israel 127 (Yediot Ahronot Press, 2023) (Hebrew).

  • Ephraim Lavie, Mohammed S. Wattad, and Meir Elran, “Coping with the Violence and the Crime in the Arab Society: The Concern to Shift from an Opportunity to Missing an Opportunity,” Special Publication (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (03.01.2022) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Asaf Harduf & Mohammed S. Wattad, "The Law of Rights and the Law of Wrongs: Criminalizing Adult Incest" 55(6) Criminal Law Bulletin 955 (2019) (English) [was published as the “leading article”] (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad (trans.), George P. Fletcher, Basic Concepts on Criminal Law (Ephraim Heiliczer & Mordechai Kremnitzer eds., The Bar Association – Law Books Publishing House, 2018) (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, Medical Law in Israel (4th ed., Aspen Publishers, Inc., Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2018) (English) [an updated version of a previous publication in 2016].

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, "Israel at 70: The Rule of Law and the Judiciary" 23(3) Israel Studies Journal 172 (2018) (English).

  • Menachem Hofnung & Mohammed S. Wattad, "The Judicial Branch in Israel", in The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Society in Israel 1 (Reuven Hazan, Menachem Hofnung, Gideon Rahat, and Alan Dowty eds., Oxford University Press, 2018) (English) (equal contribution)

  • Ghanayim, K., & Wattad, M. S. (2017). Dignifying the dadson principle: Towards a new approach †. Canadian Criminal Law Review, 22(3), 239-273.

  • Khalid Ghanayim & Mohammed Saif-Alden Wattad, Reconsidering the Grounds and the Causing Conditions for the Necessity Defense: between Justification and Excuse - A Comprehensive Study, 86 UMKC L. REV. 111 (2017).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Natural Person, Legal Entities, and Corporate Criminal Liability under the Rome Statute” 20(2) UCLA Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs 391 (2016) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “From Rome to Nuremberg with Romanticism: On Terrorism” 38(3) Houston Journal of International Law 689 (2016) (English) [was published as the “lead article”].

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Elaborating on the Hong-Kong's Experience: Parties to the Crime and the Need to Distinguish between the Solicitor and the Perpetrator by Means of Another” 5 City University Law Review 29 (2016) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, Medical Law in Israel (3rd ed., Aspen Publishers, Inc., Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, suppl. 91, 2016) (English) [an updated version of a previous publication in 2014].

  • Ephraim Lavie, Mohammed S. Wattad, and Meir Elran, “Arab-Jewish Relationship in Israel Following Three Weeks of War” 1778 General Review (INSS Publication, Tel-Aviv University) (01.11.2023) (Hebrew) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Against Holocaust Denial: Between Criminality and Immorality” 5(2) Philosophy Study Journal 63 (2015) (English) [was published as the “lead article”].

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “When Freedom of Expression Says 'No': The Case against Academic Boycott” 171 Telos Journal 76 (2015) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Israel's Laws on Referendum – A Tale of Unconstitutional Legal Structure” 27(2) Florida Journal of International Law 213 (2015) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, Medical Law in Israel (2nd ed., Aspen Publishers, Inc., Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, suppl. 84, 2014) (English) [an updated version of a previous co-authored publication in 2010].

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “On “Unclear Innocence Verdict” and the Reasoning Duty of Innocence Verdict,” 55 Bedlatayeem Btohot [Open Doors] 48 (2015/2016) (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad (ed.), Amnon Carmi/Health and Law (2nd ed., Nevo Publication, 2013) (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Twilight Zone – Guidelines for the Characteristics of the Solicitor and the Perpetrator by Means of Another” 2(1) Journal of Law and Criminal Justice 167 (2014) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Social Protected Interest by the Fraud Offence” in Or Book 529 (Law & Business Journal and Nevo Publication, 2013) (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “John Hart Ely: An Influential Constitutional Scholar – Protecting “Flag Desecration” Under the First Amendment” 17 Barry Law Review 163 (2012) (English) [was published as the “lead article”].

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Is Criminality a Genetic Character?” 16 Din Shaveh [Equal Law] 2 (2011) (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Improper Behavior: The Applicability of Ethical Norms over Lawyers in their Private Life,” 42 Bedlatayeem Btohot [Open Doors] 44 (2011) (Hebrew).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “I Believe: Israeli Arabs – Lost in a Sea of Identities” 2(1) Beijing Law Review 1 (2011) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad & Radmyla Yu. Hrevtsova, “Reflections on International Medical Law” 30(4) The International Journal 'Medicine and Law' 449 (2011) (English) (First Author) [was published as the “lead article”] (equal contribution).

  • Amnon Carmi & Mohammed S. Wattad, Medical Law in Israel (Aspen Publishers, Inc., Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, suppl. 62, 2010) (English) (equal contribution).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Islam, Terrorism, and Modern Liberal Societies” 3(2) NUJS Law Review 143 (2010) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Fighting Terrorism with Restrained Hands,” in Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law 221 (Manak Publications, 2010) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “A Vision of Citizenship: Arabs in a Jewish & Democratic State,” in Globalisation, Human Rights and Development 185 (System Law International, New Delhi, 2009) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Constitutionalist Funeral of the American Death Penalty” 7-8 Journal of International Crime and History 115 (2009) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Torturing Debate on Torture” 29 Northern Illinois University Law Review 1 (2008) (English) [was published as the “lead article”].

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Rome Statute & Captain Planet: What Lies Between 'Crimes against Humanity' and the 'Natural Environment'?” XIX Fordham Environmental Law Review 265 (2008) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Meaning of Wrongdoing – A Crime of Disrespecting the Flag: Grounds for Preserving 'National Unity'?” 10 San Diego International Law Journal 5 (2008) (English) [was published as the “lead article”].

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, The Meaning of Criminal Law (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller e.K., 2008) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Meaning of Guilt: Rethinking Apprendi” 33(2) New England Journal on Criminal & Civil Confinement 501 (2007) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Revisiting Plessy & Brown: Why “Separate But Equal” Cannot Be Equal” Controversies in Global Politics & Societies (The Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 2007) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Resurrecting “Romantics at War”: International Self-Defense in the Shadow of the Law of War – Where are the Borders?” 13(1) ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law 205 (2006) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Is Terrorism a Crime or an Aggravating Factor in Sentencing?” 4(5) Oxford Journal of International Criminal Justice 1017 (2006) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Eminent Figures in the State of Israel,” in Israel: A General Survey 761 (The Institute for Palestinian Studies, Beirut, 2004) (Arabic).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Israeli Arabs: Between the Nation and the State” 6(2) Indigenous Law Journal 179 (2007) (English).

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Revisiting Plessy & Brown – 'Dignity' A Recipe for Humiliation: Why 'Separate but Equal' Cannot Be Equal? A Theory of Legal Thinking” 47(2) The Indian Journal of International Law 177 (2007) (English) [was published as the “lead article”].

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Did God say, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden'?: Rethinking the “Fruits of the Poisonous Tree” in Israeli Constitutional Law“ (2005) Oxford U Comparative L Forum 5. (English) [the article anticipated the Supreme Court of Israel holding in Criminal Appeal 5121/98 Yissacharov v Chief Military Prosecutor (04/05/2006)].

  • Mohammed S. Wattad, “Book Review: EU Human Rights Policies: A Study in Irony. By Andrew Williams (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004) Pp. 250” 11(2) Columbia Journal of European Law 461 (2005) (English).