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30 Years Since Oslo: Why Did the Accords Fail and Can the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Proces
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Pacific Time)

CENTER NEWS

The Center's postdoctoral fellow publishes article in Language Resources and Evaluation

Dr. Omri Shafer Raviv's article introduces a large-scale Hebrew corpus of planning, construction, and architecture texts spanning from the 1950s to today (22M+ words). Built at the Big Data in Architecture Research Lab at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, the corpus enables practical Hebrew NLP applications that are typically developed for high-resource languages and stands out for its scale, source diversity, verified representativeness, and long temporal scope.


Professor Steven E. Zipperstein Announced as the Center's New Director

Professor Steven E. Zipperstein has been appointed as Director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies as of July 1, 2025. Prof. Zipperstein is a scholar of the legal history of Israel–Palestine.


The Center's long-time Community Advisory Board member, Abner Goldstine, has passed away

It is with great sadness that we share this news. Abner served on the Center's Community Advisory Board since its inception in 2010 and was deeply committed to the Center's mission.


The religious right and democratic backsliding in Israel

April 24, 2024: An article on Rami Hod's talk at the Y&S Nazarian Center in winter quarter 2025 looks at how extreme religious ideas have entered mainstream Israeli politics and weakened its democracy.



MULTIMEDIA

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The Iran–Israel War: What's Next?

A discussion on the recent Israel–Iran war, the ceasefire, and what the events over the last few weeks mean for the region's future....

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Trump 2.0 & US–Middle East Relations: New Deals and Shifting Alliances

This online discussion about rapidly shifting US–Middle East relations was hosted on June 10th, 2025....

DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE

The UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, situated in the UCLA International Institute, provides academic discourse about Israel, from the pre-state period to the present. With Israel in the news on an ongoing basis, nuanced and informative discussion rests on academic integrity and civil discourse. Through our programs, webinars, and podcasts, we invite you to engage in exploring modern Israel and its complex history, multi-ethnic society, and rich culture, along with its many challenges and achievements... (read more) 

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