A webinar on Israel's upcoming pivotal elections featuring David Makovsky, the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, co-hosted by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley.
Thursday, September 10, 202611:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Pacific Time)Webinar
11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern / 19:00 UK / 21:00 Israel
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Co-organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and by the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley. Co-sponsored by UCLA Center for Middle East Development.
About the Event
The upcoming elections in Israel, scheduled for Tuesday, October 27, could well be the most pivotal in the country's history. Polls show neither the governing coalition nor any other of the many competing parties winning enough seats in the Knesset to form a government without the need to form a coalition with other parties. This has given rise to many questions, including whether the elections may result in the end of Prime Minister Netanyahu's career; whether the main opposition group, led by former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, will need to work together with the Israeli Arab political parties to form a government; and many other potential outcomes.
About the Speakers
David Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Project on Arab-Israel Relations. He is also an adjunct professor in Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and president of the board for the National Library of Israel's U.S. affiliate (NLI-USA). In 2013-2014, he worked in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of State, serving as a senior advisor to the Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations.
Before joining The Washington Institute, Mr. Makovsky was an award-winning journalist who covered the peace process from 1989 to 2000. He is the former executive editor of the Jerusalem Post, was diplomatic correspondent for Israel's leading daily, Haaretz, and is a former contributing editor to U.S. News and World Report. He served for eleven years as that magazine's special Jerusalem correspondent. He was awarded the National Press Club's 1994 Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence for a cover story on PLO finances that he cowrote for the magazine.
Ron Hassner (discussant) is Professor of International Conflict and Religion at UC Berkeley. He is a recipient of the Berkeley Undergraduate Political Science Association’s “Distinguished Teaching Award”, the Berkeley Division of Social Sciences’ “Distinguished Teaching Award”, Berkeley’s campus-wide “Distinguished Teaching Award”, and the American Political Science Association’s “Outstanding Teaching in Political Science Award”. He is a faculty director of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and he holds the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at UC Berkeley. His research explores the role of ideas, practices and symbols in international security with particular attention to the relationship between religion and violence. His published work focuses on territorial disputes, religion in the military, conflicts over holy places, the pervasive role of religion on the modern battlefield, and on the politics of interrogational torture.
DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.
Sponsor(s): Center for Middle East Development, Department of Public Policy, The Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley