Phyllis Weintraub is a research entomologist with the Agricultural Research Organization (http://agri.gov.il), which is under the auspices of the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture. She is based at the Gilat Research Center near Be’er Sheva (http://www.molcho.org.il/ weintraub_english.html). Her key qualifications are IPM, biological control of pests of greenhouse vegetables, and control of vectors of phytoplasma diseases. Since 2003 she has been a lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, for an international master's level course which she developed, entitled “Integrated Pest Management”.
She joined the IOBC/WPRS in 2002 (WG: “Integrated control in protected crops, temperate climate” and the subgroup “Integrated control in protected crops, Mediterranean climate”). This is her first term serving as a Council Member. She was the convenor for the first meeting of the new working group “Integrated Control of Plant-feeding Mites”.