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Equality and Exclusion: Israel's Constitutional Order and Its Palestinian-Arab Minority (1948–2025)

Ofra Bloch, Steven E. Zipperstein

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The Supreme Court of Israel.

This program is part of the Center's series Key Legal Issues in Israel.

Thursday, June 4, 2026
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Pacific Time)
Webinar
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10:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM Eastern / 18:00 UK / 20:00 Israel

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Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University.


About the Program

This webinar, another in the Nazarian Center-Tel Aviv University law school series covering legal issues in Israel, will examine the development of Israel’s constitutional order through its relationship with the Palestinian-Arab minority. It traces the constitutional commitment to equality, how that commitment has shifted over time, and how questions of equality and discrimination have both shaped—and been shaped by—Israel’s evolving constitutional framework.

About the Speakers

Ofra Bloch is an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Her areas of research and teaching include history and theory of constitutional law, administrative law, antidiscrimination law and education law, with a focus on questions of inequality. Bloch earned a J.S.D. and LL.M. from Yale Law School, and an LL.M. and LL.B. from Tel Aviv University. Prior to her graduate studies, Bloch served as a Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Israel. Bloch is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, and her work has been published in well-known journals, including the Law and History Review.

Professor Steven E. Zipperstein (moderator) is the Director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. He teaches in the Department of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He is a Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University Law School and a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. He serves as a Distinguished Senior Scholar at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and as a Senior Fellow at The Hague Initiative for International Cooperation in the Netherlands. Zipperstein is the author of three peer-reviewed books, most recently The Legal Case for Palestine: A Critical Assessment

 

 

 

 


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): The Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University