The Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies is pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of Currents: Briefs on Contemporary Israel, our bi-annual publication. The Spring 2021 issue features an article by Bar-Ilan University Professor Eytan Gilboa, "What Do Americans Think of Israel? Long-Term Trends and Socio-Demographic Shifts."

UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, February 19, 2021 – The UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center’s new issue of Currents: Briefs on Contemporary Israel was published this week, featuring an essay by Bar-Ilan University Professor Eytan Gilboa, “What Do Americans Think of Israel? Long-Term Trends and Socio-Demographic Shifts.”  The brief focuses on American attitudes toward several key bilateral dimensions of U.S. relations with Israel. It presents and analyses long-term trends based on numerous national public opinion polls conducted in the United States from 2000 to 2020. Click here (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/israel/currents/article/235597) to read the latest issue of Currents.

"For anyone interested in American public opinion towards Israel, this data-driven article is a must-read," said Professor Dov Waxman, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies, director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center, and editor-in-chief of Currents: Briefs on Contemporary Israel. 

A professor of political science and international communication, Dr. Gilboa is the founding head of both the School of Communication and the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University. He is also a senior research associate at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies. His publications include three books and many articles and book chapters on U.S.-Israel relations. His most recent book is The American Public and Israel in the Twenty-First Century(BESA, 2020).

Covering Israel’s society, politics, economy, and culture, Currents aims to disseminate scholarly expertise, cutting-edge research, and innovative analyses of Israel to a wide audience.