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An online conference presented in partnership with Haaretz, Israel's leading newspaper.

Sunday, November 21, 2021
9:00 AM - 1:30 PM (Pacific Time)


Join top experts and officials from Israel and the U.S. at the Haaretz-UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies online conference on Israeli national security to learn more about Israel's most pressing strategic challenges. The conference will be broadcast on the Haaretz.com website and Haaretz Facebook Page.

Confirmed speakers include (pictured above in order):

•Benny Gantz, Israeli Defense Minister and Chairman of the Blue and White party

•Yossi Cohen, Former Director of the Mossad, Head of SoftBank Israel

•Ambassador Martin S. Indyk, Distinguished Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel

•U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler

•Shira Efron, Senior Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and Special Advisor to RAND

•Sima Shine, Senior Researcher-INSS

Many more participants to come. The conference will be opened by Haaretz Editor in Chief Aluf Benn and UCLA Professor Dov Waxman, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies and Director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies


FOR MORE INFO: https://ucla.in/2WLwfua

DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.

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Our latest Israel in Depth podcast has dropped! Listen now.

New episode of our Israel in Depth podcast is live. UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies director Prof. Dov Waxman talks to Emmanuel Navon about his new book, "The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel." The book provides a comprehensive, sweeping history of Jewish, Zionist and Israeli diplomacy from antiquity until the present day. Dr. Navon is an international relations expert who teaches at Tel Aviv University and at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center.

Listen here: https://ucla.in/3avRNPg

Also available on major podcast platforms, including Apple, Google, Spotify and Stitcher.

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Call for submissions: Third Annual Undergraduate Scholars Conference in Israel Studies to be held June 15, 2021 (via Zoom). Students from around world will present and discuss their research on modern Israel. Submissions close May 14. 

More Details: https://ucla.in/39Eng1v

This is a unique opportunity for undergraduate students to present and discuss their research on modern Israel (in any academic discipline). Students selected to showcase their work at the conference will be invited to give a 10 to 12-minute presentation of their work, and participate in a moderated Q&A with their peers. The 2021 virtual conference is open to students from any campus in the United States and abroad.

Submissions: Applicants should submit abstracts of approximately 100-250 words that outline the premise, research methods, and thesis of their paper no later than May 14th. Accepted applicants should submit their final papers by June 4th (link will be provided upon acceptance).

Awards: The UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies will award prizes to the best paper, and the runner-up. Awards will be based on originality, depth of research and analysis, and quality of writing. The best paper winner will receive $350 USD, and the runner up will receive $150 USD.

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VIDEO: Israeli political analyst and pollster Dahlia Scheindlin on "Israel's Four Recent Elections: Policy, Ideology and the State of Israeli Democracy."

Thanks to everyone who attended this week's UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies webinar – "Israel's Four Recent Elections: Policy, Ideology and the State of Israeli Democracy." And a special thank you to our guest speaker, Israeli political expert Dahlia Scheindlin. She provided some historical context on the March 2021 election and discussed the state of Israel's politics and expectations for a new government.

Webinar originally recorded April 7, 2021. Program co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Political Science.

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May 27 (10:30am PDT) - "Identity Politics in Israel and the USA," a lecture via Zoom by Yael Tamir, the president of Beit-Berl College in Israel and a former cabinet minister.

Join us for the final installment of our three-part virtual lecture series "Democracy in Israel: Past, Present, and Future." The lecture – "Identity Politics in Israel and the USA" – will be delivered Thursday, May 27 (10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time) by former Israeli politician Yael (Yuli) Tamir, the president of Beit-Berl College in Israel and an adjunct professor at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.

Register to get a Zoom login link: https://ucla.in/2OptqdE

About the Speaker: Yael (Yuli) Tamir was a deputy speaker of the Israeli Parliament (the Knesset) and served as Israel’s Minister of Immigration (1999-2001) and Minister of Education (2006-2009) representing the Labor party. She received her Ph.D. in political philosophy from Oxford University where she worked under the supervision of Sir Isaiah Berlin. Dr. Tamir was a professor at Tel Aviv University and a visiting professor and a scholar-in-residence at Princeton, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, the Central European University in Budapest and the European University in Florence. She is the author of Why Nationalism (2019) and Liberal-Nationalism (1999), as well as numerous articles in the fields of moral and political philosophy, philosophy of education, feminism and human rights. She was a founding member of the Israeli peace movement “Peace Now” and has served as the chairperson of the Israeli Association of Civil Rights.

Program sponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Co-sponsored by the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History and the UCLA Department of History.

DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.

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May 20 (11am PDT) via Zoom – A Conversation with Artist Dor Guez: Archives, Narrative and Memory.

Jerusalem-born artist and scholar Dor Guez has been producing groundbreaking work at the intersection of photography, video and archives since the early 2000s. Guez's work resonates globally and contributes to broader conversations about nationality and its impact on locality and the individual. Guez is head of the Master of Fine Arts Program at Bezalel Academy of the Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

In this event, join Professor Guez and Dr. Rotem Rozental, as they discuss his recent work. Registration is required to obtain a Zoom login. Details and RSVP: https://ucla.in/3rMs0Iq

About the Event: Combining historical ethos with individual tales, Dor Guez's artistic practice reflects the structural and formal tensions between the artificial and the natural, imitation and origin. In this lecture, Guez will explore the relationship between language, displacement, and entangled perceptions of nature, home and identity. Existing at the cross-point between historical archives, contemporary photography, and video, the lecture will explore the artist’s most recent work, Lillies of the Field, in collaboration with the American Colony Archive in Jerusalem, among the first to capture “The Holy Land” at the second half of the 19th century. Lilies of the Field tackles how representations of the landscape, explicitly or implicitly, are subjugated to Orientalist precepts.

Additionally, Guez will draw insight from two other archives in which the artist has been working with over a decade: the Pinchas Lavon Institute for Labour Movement Research in Tel Aviv, one of the most extensive Zionist archives in Israel, and the Christian Palestinian Archive, which the artist established in 2006.

About the Speakers:

Dor Guez is professor at Bezalel Academy of the Arts and Design in Jerusalem. He is the founder of the Christian-Palestinian Archive, the head of the Master of Fine Arts Program at Bezalel, and the co-director of Seaport: Mediterranean Curatorial Residency.

Discussant Rotem Rozental is chief curator and senior director of arts and culture at American Jewish University in Los Angeles.

Program sponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Information Studies.

Above Image Credit: Dor Guez/Archival Print: Lilies of the Field #1, Bethlehem, Grotte of the Nativity, 2018 (Detail)

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May 10 (12pm PDT) via Zoom – "Jerusalem and the Temple Mount: National Home or Universal Spiritual Center?"

On Jerusalem Day, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, Director Emeritus of Hillel at UCLA, will explore the significance of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in Jewish thought. Can Jerusalem be unique to Jews and Judaism while at the same time promote an aspirational vision of universality? Join us on May 10 at 12pm PDT for this virtual lecture via Zoom.

Registration is required to obtain a login link. Details and RSVP: https://ucla.in/3rn6RV0

About the Speaker: Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller is a faculty member at Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He was executive director of the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA for 40 years, and currently is director emeritus and also director of the Hartman Fellowship for Campus Professionals. He is a lecturer in the Departments of Sociology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA and in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is also a faculty member of the Wexner Heritage Foundation and was a founding member of Americans for Peace Now. Seidler-Feller was a rabbinic consultant to Barbra Streisand during the making of the film Yentl.

Sponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion and Hillel at UCLA.

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April 15 (1030am PDT) via Zoom: The Harry C. Sigman Distinguished Lecture in Israel Studies, presented by Israeli historian and author Tom Segev – “A State At Any Cost: The Life and Legacy of David Ben-Gurion”

Join us on Thursday, April 15, 2021 (1030am – 11:45am PDT) as renowned Israeli historian and author Tom Segev discusses his biography of David Ben-Gurion, and how Ben-Gurion's legacy continues to shape Israel's identity and policies even today. Segev's biography of Israel's first prime minister uses large amounts of previously unreleased archival material to give an original, nuanced account, transcending the myths and legends that have accreted around the man.

Registration is required to obtain a login. Details and RSVP: https://ucla.in/2ZQRNDD

About the Speaker: Tom Segev has published nine works, which have appeared in 15 languages. Most recently published is A State At Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019). He was born in Jerusalem in 1945 to parents who fled Nazi Germany. Segev holds a Ph.D. in History from Boston University.

Program sponsored by UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA Department of History, and the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA.

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April 29 (11am PDT) via Zoom – Tune in to hear acclaimed Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari, author of "The Art of Leaving." Register today for this free virtual program.

Acclaimed Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari will discuss her memoir, The Art of Leaving, and its themes of longing and belonging, growing up Mizrahi in Israel, and reclaiming her Yemeni identity. She will be joined by discussant Rabbi Miriyam Glazer, Emerita Professor of Literature at American Jewish University.

Registration is required to obtain a login link. Details and RSVP: https://ucla.in/3qS175q

About the Speakers:

Ayelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. She is the author of The Art of Leaving (Penguin Random House, 2019), winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and has been published internationally. Her translations appeared in the New Quarterly, Berlin Quarterly, Paper Brigade, and Mantis. She teaches creative writing at the University of King’s College (Canada) MFA program, the University of Guelph Writing MFA program, and at Tel Aviv University.

Rabbi Miriyam Glazer (Discussant) is Emerita Professor of Literature at American Jewish University, where she created and chaired the Literature, Communication & Media Department for over 25 years. Prior to that she was chair of the Foreign Literatures Department at Ben-Gurion University. She has published many essays and book chapters on Jewish literature, as well as on nature, gender, and spirituality in Judaism and Jewish culture. Her books include Dreaming the Actual: Contemporary Fiction and Poetry by Israeli Women Writers (State University of New York Press, 2000) and Psalms of the Jewish Liturgy: A Guide to their Beauty, Power, and Meaning (Aviv Press, 2009).

Program presented by the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in collaboration with the American Jewish University and Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and UCLA Department of Comparative Literature

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April 22 (12pm Pacific Time) via Zoom – “The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua"

Join us for a virtual lecture Thursday, April 22 (noon Pacific Time) by author and scholar Yael Halevi-Wise on her recent book, “The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua,” which examines the work and ethos of one of Israel's preeminent contemporary writers.

Event is free but registration is required to obtain a Zoom login. Details and RSVP: https://ucla.in/3qXb7ds

About the Event: Yael Halevi-Wise ​will examine how Yehoshua’s speeches, interviews and op-eds have turned him into a prominent public intellectual in the eye of the Zionist storm. Yet, Yehoshua’s fame – the fact that anyone is even interested in hearing his opinions about Jewish identity – rests on his impressive and considerable literary abilities. The New York Times has called Yehoshua the "Israeli Faulkner." Sponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature.

About the Speaker:

Yael Halevi-Wise is Associate Professor of Literature and Chair of Jewish Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her areas of interest include the theory of the novel, contemporary Israeli literature, 19th century English literature and 20th century Latin American literature. Before coming to Montreal, she taught at Brandeis, Cornell and Princeton universities. Dr. Halevi-Wise is the author of many journal articles and several books, including most recently The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua (Penn State University Press, 2020). Her other books are Sephardism: Spanish/Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination (Stanford University Press, 2012) and Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel (Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2003). She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University.

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Join us Jan. 28 at 10am PT – "The Biden Administration and Israel: What Can We Expect?" A panel of experts, including Israelis and former US officials, will discuss the future of US-Israel relations. Sponsored by UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the Univ. of Maryland. ... #israel #biden #foreignpolicy #webinar #ucla #umd #diplomacy #joebiden RSVP: https://ucla.in/2WwvBx3 https://www.instagram.com/p/CJwSdlpM5s9/?igshid=1cv4eet0epojs

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Please join us on Monday, Jan. 25 (10am PT) for a talk with Prof. Uri Bialer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) discussing his new book, Israeli Foreign Policy: A People Shall Not Dwell Alone. Event sponsored by UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Register here: https://ucla.in/ ... #israel #webinar #israelstudiesucla #history #israeli #uribialer #booktalk #foreignpolicy https://www.instagram.com/p/CJwQwefs7mI/?igshid=1uuwwbk908cgs

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New episode of our Israel in Depth #podcast: Our guest, Charles Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser in Israel and author of Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change. Podcast hosted by Prof. Dov Waxman, director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. LISTEN NOW: ucla.in/3fccgbh ... #israel #israeli #security #podcast #ucla #israelstudies (at UCLA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDe89OPsb_B/?igshid=13xhn7hwc72vx

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In times like these, imagination can be a powerful thing and literature can unite us – authors, readers, and communities – even when we're behind walls.

Join us May 28 (11am-12pm PT) for a live webinar, “Love in the Time of Corona,” featuring acclaimed author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen on Jewish mythology and contemporary Israeli literature in times of catastrophe.

Webinar is open to public, but registration required. Register today: https://bit.ly/3dDBoav

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is the author of several books, including Waking Lions, which won the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize and was picked by the NYTimes as “Editors’ Choice.” Her third novel, The Liar, came out in English in fall 2019 and was picked as an Elle Magazine 2019 Best Book of the Year.

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Center director quoted in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper

Our director, #UCLA Professor Dov Waxman, is quoted inside this Haaretz article discussing how young American Jews view Joe Biden's candidacy for president. 

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-biden-s-biggest-battle-winning-over-bernie-sanders-fans-and-other-young-voters-1.8840120

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Join us next week, on Wednesday, May 20 (11am PT), as we discuss policing and minority populations in Israel. Live webinar featuring Professor Guy Ben-Porat from​ Ben-Gurion University and scholar Steven Popper of RAND. #webinar is free and open to public, but registration is required. Register now! > https://bit.ly/2SWGIhu ... #israel #israeli #policing #minorities #arab #palestinian #immigrants #booktalk (at UCLA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAIzJR8ASk4/?igshid=qjg2dwyz8pn2