Watch Golda, then join the film's creators, Udi Nir and Sagi Bornstein, and scholar Pnina Lahav, for an in-depth discussion about the iconic politician Golda Meir, Israel’s fifth Prime Minister, and the making of this illuminating new documentary. Lahav is the author of the upcoming biography Golda Meir: Through the Gender Lens and Professor of […]
Join Issi Doron, PhD, Head of the Center for Research and Study of Aging at the University of Haifa and Dilip V. Jeste, M.D., Director of the Stein Institute for Research on Aging at UC San Diego, as they lead a talk on how the elderly are particularly vulnerable under the current conditions of the […]
Tuesday, August 11 | The MGSDII invites Salon Series Members to enjoy a private screening of Israeli short movies on the Leichtag Commons Farmhouse lawn. Bring your own picnic dinner and movie snacks to this socially distant safe event. Arrive at 6:45 p.m. for picnic, movies start at 7:45 p.m. Limited spots, register today by […]
Zoom Event | The Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative (MGSDII) invites you to a special panel discussion with leading Israeli academics on today’s announcement, “No to Annexation and Yes to Normalization.” The agreement that Israel would normalize relations with the United Arab Emirates and drop its plans to annex parts of the West Bank was […]
Back by popular demand, the MGSDII and The Hive Through the Lens series continues! Join filmmaker Yair Agmon for a screening of his film, Like a Beating Heart, followed by Q&A moderated by Chaya Gilboa. The film tells the personal story of Agmon as he joins the tens of thousands of Israelis on Rosh Hashanah, […]
Tehran, the highly anticipated new espionage thriller from Fauda writer and MGSDII Visiting Artist, Moshe Zonder, will premier on Apple TV on September 25th! Join the show's creator, Zonder, and director, Danny Syrkin, for a behind-the-scenes conversation. Already receiving rave reviews, Tehran follows a Mossad agent as she embarks on her first mission as a computer hacker […]
The MGSDII is pleased to invite you to a virtual community conference, produced by the NYU Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. The MGSDII's UCSD university partner, Professor Tom Levy, will give a talk titled, "David, Solomon and Edom: Reflections from the Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project." Professor Levy leads the MGSDII funded UC San […]
Link to Join Webinar https://zoom.us/j/95973302532 Webinar ID: 959 7330 2532 OCTOBER 23-25 | The Joyce Forum Jewish Short Film Festival, will feature the two MGSDII Emerging Israeli Filmmaker award winning shorts from the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival. October 26, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | RSVP to watch the award winning shorts and hear from the […]
An online discussion of the award-winning film, "Incitement", which chronicles the true events leading to the murder of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Acclaimed director and co-writer Yaron Zilberman and Professor Yoram Peri, author of "The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin" (Stanford University Press) and a former political advisor to Prime Minister Rabin, will discuss the […]
Join Mor Shilon, MGSDII Visiting Israeli Professor at UCSD, and other Israeli educators who are advancing social change through campus-community partnerships. Using the Israeli Arab town of Jisr az-Zarqa as a case study, the panelists will discuss their research and intervention in the poorest village in Israel, making technological capital accessible for Jisr’s residents. With the […]