Khen Lampert

Khen Lampert was born in 1957 in Tel Aviv

Khen Lampert was born in 1957 to parents who had left a kibbutz. His father, Nimrod Lampert, was a Border Police officer who refused to order fire on civilians in the Kafr Qasim affair. His aunt is the psychologist Ada Lampert.

After high school and military service, he worked with street youth in south Tel Aviv. He later held instructing, counseling and management roles with children, teens and drug users in poor neighborhoods and development towns.

He studied comparative philosophy and cultural studies at Tel Aviv University and earned a PhD there. In 1999 he founded, with Gady Avidan, a support network for underprivileged Jewish and Arab children based on a model called generative mentoring.

His book Traditions of Compassion, published in 2006, compares compassion in Catholic, Buddhist and modern secular European traditions and presents his Theory of Radical Compassion. In a 2008 Hebrew book he criticized education under what he calls neocapitalism. He is a professor of behavioral sciences at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo.