August 13, 2024

Ambassador Ido Aharoni
The Jean and Gary Shekhter Visiting Professorship
SDSU School of Business and UCSD School of Global Policy

Courses:
Branding: Nations & Places (UCSD Winter 2025)
Israel Case Study:International Marketing (SDSU Spring 2025)

Judge Rachel Barkai
The Karen and Jeff Silberman Visiting Professorship
Cal Western School of Law and USD School of Law

Courses:
The Judiciary as Gatekeepers of Democracy (Spring 2025)

Giora Goodman
The Gloria and Rod Stone Visiting Professorship
SDSU Department of History

Courses:
Modern Jewish History in Feature Films (Fall 2024)
Arab-Israeli Relations (Fall 2024)

Nehama Lewis
The Mitch and Sara Wagner Visiting Professorship
SDSU Department of Communication

Courses:
Health Disparities, Public Information Environment and Public Communication Campaigns: U.S. and Israel (Spring 2025)
Public Health Communication Campaign: Global Perspectives (Spring 2025)

Asa Maron
The Elaine and Peter Chortek z”l Visiting Professorship
UCSD Departments of Sociology and Economics

Courses:
Israel’s Economy and Society (Winter 2025)
Israel’s Economy (Spring 2025)

Maya Negev
The Joseph “Chickie” Glickman z”l Visiting Professorship
SDSU School of Public Health and Department of Geography

Courses:
Population and Environment: Israel case study (Fall 2024)
Public Health (Fall 2024)

Dan Rabinowitz
The Robin and Leo Eisenberg Visiting Professorship
UCSD Department of Anthropology

Courses:
Special Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology: Climate, Israel, and the Middle East (Spring 2025)
Climate Change, Race, and Inequality (Spring 2025)

Tom Shoval
The Jules and Gwen Knapp Family Visiting Professorship
SDSU Department of English and Comparative Literature

Courses:
Screenwriting (Fall 2024)
Topics in the Arts “The Voice and View of the Israeli Director 1950 – Present” (Fall 2024)

Meir Edrey
The Irwin Jacobs Visiting Professorship
UCSD Department of Anthropology
Courses:
Israeli Biblical Archaeology (Spring 2025)
Marine and Coastal Archeology and the Biblical Seas (Spring 2025)

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Join us to have dinner and personally meet the Visiting Israeli Professors here for the Fall 2024 Semester.

To learn more, please contact:
Susan Lapidus, Executive Director, susan@mgsdii.org