Monday, August 21: In an article titled "Israel's democracy protests: What happens next?" UCLA Nazarian Center director Professor Dov Waxman was interviewed for The Conversation U.S. about the future of Israel's democracy protests and the Netanyahu government's continued efforts to erode the power of the country's Supreme Court. Read the Interview Here.
Monday, August 14: "The Constants and Variables of a Special Relationship," an article sponsored by the Center and written by the Center's 2023/24 Harry C. Sigman Graduate Fellow Joshua Goetz, was published by The Tel Aviv Review of Books. Read the Article.
Tuesday, July 25: The Center's Israel Institute Teaching Fellow, Dr. Tamar Hofnung, was interviewed on Fox News about the protests sweeping across Israel, which have intensified after the Netanyahu government's first judicial overhaul bill was passed by the Knesset on July 24th. Watch the interview.
Monday, July 24: Professor Dov Waxman, Director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, was invited onto Al Jazeera to discuss how the Knesset passing the first judicial overhaul bill, an effort spearheaded by Netanyahu's government, may impact the US–Israel relationship. Watch the interview.
Sharon Zelnick, UCLA Ph.D candidate in Comparative Literature and recipient of a Nazarian Center research grant, published her article titled "Aleksandar Hemon's Photography-embedded Migrant Literature” in the Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings issue 7. Read the Article.
Sharon Zelnick, UCLA Ph.D candidate in Comparative Literature and recipient of a Nazarian Center research grant, published her article titled "Dani Gal's cinematic and activist engagements with Israel/Palestine in Germany” in the NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies issue 11. Read the Article.
Thursday, July 6th: The Conversation published a piece by Professor Dov Waxman, Director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center, titled "Israel's assault in Jenin will only further erode the Palestinian Authority's legitimacy". Click Here to read the article.
Thursday, June 15th: American Jewish History published UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center scholar Avery Weinman's article "Mutual Empowerment in the 'Power Era': US Jews and American Indians in the Post–Civil Rights Movement United States" in Vol. 106, Number 4. Click Here to read an excerpt from the article.
Sunday, April 2nd: Professor Dov Waxman, Director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, was invited onto BBC World News once again to offer insight into the ongoing protests in Israel. The protestors have continued to turn out even after Netanyahu paused the bill's progress to meet with Israel's President Isaac Herzog and opposition leader Yair Lapid. Click Here to watch the interview.
Friday, March 31st: Professor Dov Waxman, Director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center, was quoted in The Washington Post's article "Here's how other democracies have prosecuted political leaders" about what the US can learn from other countries, including Israel, that have charged their government officials. Click Here to read the article.
The Center is pleased to announce the publication of the 7th issue of Currents: Briefs on Contemporary Israel, our bi-annual publication. The Spring/Summer 2023 issue features an article by Avital Sicron, a Ph.D student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a former Visiting Researcher at the Nazarian Center, "An Activist Court? Reassessing the Decline In Trust In the Israeli Supreme Court."Wednesday, August 16, 2023
At the inaugural Younes Nazarian Memorial Lecture of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, writer Yossi Klein Halevi contended that mass demonstrations against the proposed judicial reforms of Prime Minister Netanyahu were reanimating the center in Israeli politics.Wednesday, May 17, 2023
As the new coalition government in Israel enters its first week, UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies Research Fellow Liron Lavi offers a perspective on what is keeping this coalition together – and what could ultimately tear it apart.Tuesday, June 15, 2021
After a year of political deadlock and three elections, Israel is on the brink of finally getting a new government. Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies research fellow Liron Lavi explains what motivated Israelis to vote time and again and why, despite predictions, voter turnout actually increased, especially among Arab citizens of Israel.Monday, March 30, 2020
UCLA Law School student and study abroad scholarship recipient Amit Liran shares insights from his semester abroad at Tel Aviv University where he immersed himself in Israeli and international law in and outside of the classroom.Monday, March 18, 2019
Thanks to a scholarship from the Y&S Nazarian Center, transfer student Sebastian Feldman was able to study abroad in Israel - an experience he hoped for, but didn't expect would be possible.Thursday, February 28, 2019