Gilad Halpern

Whose World Heritage? De-politicizing Archaeology in Jerusalem

Yonathan Mizrachi directs Emek Shaveh, an organization seeking to “prevent the politicization of archaeology in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

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Death of a Statesman: Yitzhak Rabin and the End of an Israeli Era

Yitzhak Rabin’s former ambassador to the US Professor Itamar Rabinovich discusses his new biography of the prime minister.

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Zionism as a Vocation: Ahad Ha’am and the Legacy of Cultural Zionism

Dr. Brian Klug of University of Oxford analyzes 20th-century Zionist theorist Ahad Ha’am’s relevance to today’s Israel.

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Jaffa, the crux of co-existence?

Professor Daniel Monterescu, a visiting professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion in Haifa, discusses his recently published ethnographic study of Jaffa.

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Adieu, Jews: France and North Africa Under the Nazi Occupation

Dr. Daniel Lee of the University of Sheffield discusses the unusual case of Jews in metropolitan France and its North African colonies after the 1940 defeat by Nazi Germany.

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Kafka in the West Bank: The bureaucracy of the occupation

Dr. Yael Berda of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, discusses Israeli surveillance of the Palestinian population in the West Bank.

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Armenia’s 30-Year Genocide

Professor Benny Morris, one of the foremost historians of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has ventured into a new territory.

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