Boaz Garfinkel was awarded a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship to pursue his research project titled "The Political Economy of Distribution: Employment, Housing and Class Formation in Early Israel". His project examines how the distribution of housing and employment in Israel’s first decade shaped emerging class relations, social inequality, and the political economy of the new state.

Boaz received his BA and MA in Jewish History from the University of Haifa and his PhD in Israeli History from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His doctoral dissertation, "Class Formation and Housing in Israel", examined housing distribution in Israel during the 1950s and its role in the formation of social and economic inequality. His research lies at the intersection of economic history, labor history, social thought, and Israeli society.

His publications include:

• "Military Strikebreaking and the Making of State–Labor Relations in Early Israel", Labor History, 2025.
• "The Dissolution of the Cooperative Housing of the General Histadrut", Cathedra, 2026.
• "Bringing in the Army to Break the Locomotive Drivers’ and Sailors’ Strikes in 1951", Iyunim, 2020.