Dr. Aharonovich, a resident of Mazkeret Batya, completed his entire academic career in the Department of Geography and Environmental Development at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He finished his B.A. with honors in 1991. His M.A. thesis (honors) focused on the relationship between financial cycles and spatial cycles. His doctoral thesis dealt with the approaches of urban planning to multicultural realities and focused on the differences between Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Toronto.
In the past Itzhak was the deputy director of the tutoring program (Perach) at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, director of the division for strategic planning and information in Ofakim and also worked at Svivot Tichnun, a firm specializing in urban planning.
Dr. Aharonovich joined the Mandel Center in 2006.