Year: 2014

How to keep Israeli social networks from becoming slimy

What can and should be done to prevent the unjust, inefficient, anti-meritocratic and patently slimy aspects of the tight-knittedness of Israeli social networks, without destroying the networks themselves?

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How do you solve a problem like corruption? – The Promised Podcast‏

Will Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s proposal to exchange whole blocs of populations help the peace process or hurt it? How do you prevent corruption without destroying Israeli social networks? Why do Israeli parents let their kids play with fire and take candy from strangers?

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Rogel Alpher with right-wing ideologue Yisrael Medad – Journeys

Right-wing journalist and blogger Yisrael Medad refuses to recognize the Palestinians as a national collective — but that, he says, doesn’t exclude the prospect of dialogue.

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‘I have been planted with the pines’ – Israel in Translation

Lea Goldberg is the best-selling poet in the history of Israel. Many of her poems express both a love of the land of Israel, as well as nostalgia for her abandoned home in the diaspora.

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Elohim

Elohim means God in Hebrew. Why does it have a plural suffix at the end? Is it really plural in Modern Hebrew? How do we use elohim in Israeli slang, and what did we borrow from Arabic?

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Rogel Alpher with illustrator Michel Kichka – Journeys

Illustrator Michel Kichka’s autobiographical comic book explores the condition of the children of Holocaust survivors.

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Inside the Intelligence: Former Head of Israeli Police Investigations Yoav Segalovich (full)

Major General (ret.) Yoav Segalovich, the head of the Israel Police Investigations Division, was Attorney Dov Weissglas’ guest at the fifth event of the Inside the Intelligence lecture series, held at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv.

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Inside the Intelligence: Former Head of Israeli Police Investigations Yoav Segalovich

Major General (ret.) Yoav Segalovich, the head of the Israel Police Investigations Division, was Attorney Dov Weissglas’ guest at the fifth event of the Inside the Intelligence lecture series, held at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv.

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Inside the Intelligence: Ambassador Harry Knei-Tal (full)

Ambassador Harry Knei-Tal, the former director of the Foreign Ministry’s Center for Policy Research, was Attorney Dov Weissglas’ guest at the fourth event of the Inside the Intelligence lecture series, held at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv.

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Inside the Intelligence: Ambassador Harry Knei-Tal

Ambassador Harry Knei-Tal, the former director of the Foreign Ministry’s Center for Policy Research, was Attorney Dov Weissglas’ guest at the fourth event of the Inside the Intelligence lecture series, held at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv.

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