Research grant recipient Netanel Fisher reveals how non-Jewish volunteers who joined kibbutzim in Israel in the early 1970s created a situation that brought about the establishment of an Israeli state conversion system.
Israel Institute Doctoral Fellow discusses the geopolitics of Israel and Turkey.
Research grant recipient Lihi Ben Shitrit demonstrates how attention to gender and to women's engagement in inter-communal conflict over sacred places can illuminate unique intra-communal processes that aim to make a contested sacred site increasingly indivisible for parties to the conflict.
Writer Larry Wilson joins a class on computational poetry taught by Eran Hadas, Israel Institute artist-in-residence at Caltech.
Israel Institute Visiting Professor Udi Sommer visited DePaul University to deliver a lecture titled, "100 Days into the Trump Administration: Legal and Political Perspectives."
The Israel Institute supported the translation and publication of Dorit Rabinyan's Hebrew book, Borderlife, into English (All the Rivers).
The Jewish Women's Archive's Nahanni Rous catches up with Israeli author Dorit Rabinyan about her novel All the Rivers, an Israeli-Palestinian love affair that confronts themes of borders, identity, and assimilation. Rabinyan received support from the Israel Institute that facilitated the translation of her book from Hebrew into English.
A panel of award-winning Israeli actors, directors, and writers will examine modern Israeli society through film.