Year: 2014

Inside the Intelligence: Former head of IDF Military Intelligence Aharon Ze’evi-Farkash (full)

Major General (ret.) Aharon Ze’evi-Farkash, head of the IDF Military Intelligence between 2001-2006, was Attorney Dov Weissglas’ guest at the third event of the Inside the Intelligence lecture series, held at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv.

Read More

Menachem Begin: Israel’s most ‘Jewish’ leader

Dr Daniel Gordis, author of “Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul,” explains why Israel’s sixth prime minister was the country’s most “Jewish” leader.

Read More

Inside the Intelligence: Former head of IDF Military Intelligence Aharon Ze’evi-Farkash

Major General (ret.) Aharon Ze’evi-Farkash, head of the IDF Military Intelligence between 2001-2006, was Attorney Dov Weissglas’ guest at the third event of the Inside the Intelligence lecture series, held at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv.

Read More

Alfred Dreyfus, the man behind the affair

A new exhibition at Beit Hatefutsot – the Museum of the Jewish People – explores the private life of the most unintentionally famous Jew of modern times.

Read More

Who needs ‘protektzia’ when you’ve got influence? – The Promised Podcast‏

Is a massive move to the center going to change Israeli politics beyond recognition? How did Ehud Barak earn $10 million in the six years after he was Prime Minister and before he was Defense Minister, and who was he beholden to? Should free newspapers be banned, as a proposed law would have it? All this and more on The Promised Podcast.

Read More

The Evil Eye

The Hebrew word עין means eye. How do we say it in plural? What is עין הרע? And how do we say ‘The apple of my eye’ in Hebrew?

Read More

Rogel Alpher with Mizrahi muckraker Sami Shalom Chetrit – Journeys

Born in Morocco, raised in Israel and based in New York, the culture critic and public intellectual has many unconventional views about the ethnic and socioeconomic makeup of Israel in its current form.

Read More

Ciao, Jews: Mussolini’s race laws under scrutiny

Prof. Michael Livingstone of the School of Law at Rutgers University, author of the forthcoming The Fascists and the Jews of Italy: Mussolini’s Race Laws 1938-1943, talks about this often overlooked episode in modern European history, and dwells on his unique perspective as a legal scholar.

Read More

The first Zionist monkey

Elia Etkin of the School of History at the Tel Aviv University talks about her research of the history of the now-defunct Tel Aviv zoo between 1938-1958, amid a changing political, social and cultural climate.

Read More