Speakers

Avi Shilon

New York University
 

Avi Shilon is a historian with New York University. He is the author of Menachem Begin: A Life (Yale University Press) and Ben-Gurion: His Later Years in the Political Wilderness (Rowman and Littlefield). His book, The Decline of the Left Wing in Israel, was recently published.
 

On the process of the Easternization of the Israel Politics and Society
 

The central idea of the article is to illuminate and analyze a process of “Easternization” of Israel society over the past two decades, in cultural, sociological and political aspects.

Sessions

Experiences and Narratives: How Israel is Shaped