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Watch: Global Antisemitism – A Zoom Conversation with Meir Litvak and Jonathan Sarna

December 7, 2021
View a recording of the event HERE. Anti-Semitism is at near…
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Watch: Conflict and Cohesion – A Test of Shared Society in Israel

May 21, 2021
View a recording of the event below. Over this past week,…
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Watch: The Latest Archaeological Excavations in Jerusalem – Digging in a Glass House

May 18, 2021
View a recording of the event below. Join Tel Aviv University…
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Watch: Private Screening of “The Museum” with Director Ran Tal and Special Guests

May 11, 2021
View a recording of the event below. Screen The Museum and…
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Watch: Jerusalem Live! Modern Dance Performance, Followed by “Talk” with the Artist and Choreographer

April 15, 2021
View a recording of the event below. “Premier” Israeli…
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Watch: What San Diego Can Learn from Israel’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout: Successes & Challenges

March 23, 2021
View a recording of the event below.   Israel…
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Oscar Nomination Win For MGSDII Emerging Filmmaker!

March 17, 2021
Dear Friends of the MGSDII, Film has the ability to cross…
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MGSDII Partners with UC Berkeley for Global Internship Program in Israel

March 15, 2021
UC Berkeley’s Global Internship Program in Israel is launching…
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Watch: Israel’s Space Innovation and Education with CEO of the Ramon Foundation, Ran Livne

March 8, 2021
View the recording of the event by clicking HERE. This academic…
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Watch: “Here We Are” Director’s Talk with Nir Bergman

February 24, 2021
View the recording of the event below. Join filmmaker…
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Watch: San Diego Sneak Preview of “Our Natural Right”

February 1, 2021
View the recording of the event below. David Ben Gurion…
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WATCH: Exclusive San Diego Virtual Screening and Talk with the Filmmaker of “Children of the Sun”

December 7, 2020
Join Ran Tal, Children of the Sun filmmaker, for an in-depth…
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WATCH: Visiting Israeli Professor Discusses Bringing Technological Capital to Israeli Neighborhoods

November 12, 2020
Hear from Mor Shilon, MGSDII Visiting Israeli Professor at UCSD,…
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WATCH: MGSDII Salon Series, “Tehran”

October 8, 2020
The Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative (MGSDII) hosted…
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WATCH: Normalization Between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Why Did It Happen and Why Now?

August 19, 2020
The Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative (MGSDII) hosted…
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WATCH: Loneliness: The COVID-19 Toll on the Elderly

July 28, 2020
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“Golda” Virtual Screening and Discussion, Watch Now!

July 20, 2020
The MGSDII was proud to sponsor a screening of the new documentary…
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Visiting MGSDII Professor’s Research Featured in “The New Yorker”

June 22, 2020
Erez Ben-Yosef, former Visiting MGSDII Professor, was featured…
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“Through the Lens” Series with Ronit Weiss-Berkowitz, Watch Now!

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MGSDII Funds COVID-19 Collaboration

May 15, 2020
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Hear What USD Students Have to Say About Their Academic Trip to Israel

May 15, 2020
For the second year in a row, the University of San Diego (USD)…
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MGSDII Partners with UCLA Center for Israel Studies for Summer On-line Course

May 15, 2020
Calling all university students! The MGSDII is proud to offer…
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Lunch with the Filmmaker: Nitzan Gilady

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Spend the Summer in Jerusalem, San Diego Film Students Invited to Apply!

February 7, 2020
This 6-week summer program is a career boosting once in a lifetime…
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MGSDII Awards Scholarship to Master Student Studying Anthropology in Israel

October 10, 2019
The MGSDII was proud to award a scholarship to UCSD Master student,…
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Call for Visiting Scholars!

October 3, 2019
MGSDII Visiting Faculty Program The Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel…
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MGSDII Jerusalem Film Workshop Films Featured in La Jolla Light

August 29, 2019
Selected from a San Diego county-wide university competition…
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MGSDII Awards Three Full-Ride Scholarships to Participate in the Jerusalem Film Workshop in Israel this Summer

July 8, 2019
Three San Diego university students were accepted to participate…
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Research Conducted by MGSDII Visiting Israel Professor – Ancient Fort Linked to Biblical Battles Found Off Coast of Israel

June 3, 2019
Underwater archaeology is helping to transform our knowledge…
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Professor and MGSDII Partner Published in Washington Post, Reflects on Poway Tragedy

May 1, 2019
CSUSM Professor and MGSDII partner, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, was published…
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MGSDII Welcomes Students from Technion University to SDSU

April 29, 2019
As part of an ongoing partnership between SDSU and Technion University,…
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MGSDII Partners with Tel-Hai College to offer Summer Course

April 24, 2019
The MGSDII is partnering with Tel-Hai College to offer a course…
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MGSDII Offers San Diego Student Scholarship to Pursue M.F.A. at the Prestigious Tisch Film and Television School at Tel Aviv University

April 8, 2019
The MGSDII is proud to offer San Diego student, Alexandria Rivetti,…
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See What’s Happening in MGSDII University Classes

March 14, 2019
The MGSDII staff recently had the opportunity to see our visiting…
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MGSDII Partners with Tel Aviv University to Offer an M.F.A. in Documentary Cinema

March 6, 2019
Application Deadline: May 1, 2019 Located at the Tisch School…
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Photo Updates from USD Class Studying in Israel

March 4, 2019
The MGSDII awarded a grant to the University of San Diego to…
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Interested in How Students are Learning in the Classroom?

February 26, 2019
The MGSDII sat down with Visiting Israeli Professor, Luba Levin-Banchik,…
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SpaceIL (Israel’s first Lunar Spacecraft) Launches

February 22, 2019
In November 2016, Yonatan Winetraub, Co-Founder of SpaceIL,…
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Watch MGSDII Visiting Israeli Professor on San Diego News Channel

February 15, 2019
Ronit Weiss-Berkowitz, MGSDII visiting professor at SDSU, was…
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Spend the Summer in Jerusalem, San Diego Film Students Invited to Apply!

January 30, 2019
This 6-week summer program is a career boosting once in a lifetime…
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Research Updates from MGSDII Visiting Professor – The “Indiana Jones” of Israel

January 23, 2019
The MGSDII is proud to host Erez Ben-Yosef as a visiting professor…
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First Ever Modern Israel Course Coming to University of San Diego (Winter 2018 – Spring 2019)

January 8, 2019
Following a MGSDII funded research trip to Israel,  USD Engineering…
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MGSDII Funds Joint UC San Diego Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology – University of Haifa Project (Fall 2017 through Fall 2019)

January 8, 2019
Professor Tom Levy of UCSD and Professor Assaf Yasur-Landau…
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SDSU and Technion Joint Engineering Capstone Project (February 2019)

October 24, 2018
SDSU and Technion senior students will work together over Skype…
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