The Tel Aviv Review

Crisis: The Climate and National Security

The climate crisis is a global issue with very concrete strategic consequences: on food security, energy and more. Galit Cohen, Director of the Program on Climate Change at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies, discusses the implications of the climate crisis on national security and the importance of policymaking in moving forward

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Keep Antisemitism Off Our Pitches

Daniel Lörcher, the founding director of What Matters, an organization that tackles racism, antisemitism and discrimination on the soccer field and elsewhere, discusses his work on reducing antisemitism among soccer fans and how sports culture can – and does – help create an atmosphere that promotes tolerance and pluralism

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‘I Am Happy That She Lived Her Short Life to the Fullest’

Ricarda Louk, the mother of Shani, a tattoo artist who became one of the most iconic victims of the Nova festival massacre, talks to us upon the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attack

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The Importance of Being Formally Educated

Dr Tammy Hoffman explains how public education can tackle the erosion of democratic norms and the adverse effects of social media on society

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Jewish and Demographic

Historian Dr Nimrod Lin, Managing Editor of the Journal of Israeli History, discusses his forthcoming book, “People Who Count: Zionism, Demography and Democracy in Mandate Palestine”

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The Uncertain Beginning of a Special Relationship

Roni Stauber, Professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, discusses his book “Diplomacy in the Shadow of Memory: Israel and West Germany, 1953-1965”

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Text, Subtext, Context: Monitoring Antisemitism Online

Dr Matthias Becker, research fellow at Reichman University and the University of Cambridge, discusses his Decoding Antisemitism project, using novel scholarly and technological tools to monitor and analyze online hate speech

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Israeli Exceptionalism?

Dr Yoav Fromer discusses his new book (co-edited with Ilan Peleg), The Americanization of the Israeli Right

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A Jewish Roadmap for a People in Crisis

Joshua Leifer, an American journalist and PhD candidate in history at Yale University, discusses his new book, “Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life”

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