Gilad Halpern

Water laws in British-ruled Palestine: A case study

Tel Aviv University’s Dr. David Schorr tells host Gilad Halpern about the evolution of water laws in Mandate Palestine.

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The everyday experience: Keeping monotony at bay

Dr. Eran Dorfman shares with host Gilad Halpern the mechanisms that can prevent our daily lives from becoming unchanging and monotonous.

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Tortured by the State: Race and gender in contemporary Israel

Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Prof. Smadar Lavie, author of a recent anthropological study, about race and gender in contemporary Israel.

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Airing grievances: A comparison of social protest movements

Naama Nagar, a sociologist from the University of Wisconsin Madison, was closely involved in two social protest movements in 2011; in Wisconsin and in her native Israel.

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A eulogy to a different kind of Zionism

Prof. Ofer Shiff, author of the recently published ‘The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel,’ talks about the American-Jewish leader.

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The price of collaboration: Israel’s Arab informants

Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Prof. Menachem Hofnung of Hebrew University about his ground-breaking study on Israel’s treatment of Arab informants.

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The cost of ‘normalizing’ war

The “cultural ambience” in the wake of the Six Day War, which blurred the boundaries between war and peace, was the main cause for the trauma of the Yom Kippur War.

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