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The Global Connection - Episode #2: What Can Brokenness Offer Israeli Politics?

Delphine Horvilleur is a prominent rabbi, journalist, leader of the Liberal Jewish Movement of France (MJLF), and author of the award-winning book Living with Our Dead (Vivre avec Nos Morts).
In this episode of the Global Connection podcast, Horvilleur joins guest host Hana Wirth-Nesher – TAU full professor of English and American Studies and founding director of the Jona Goldrich Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture – to discuss the concept of brokenness in Jewish tradition and thought, and how it offers a way forward for Israeli politics and diasporic relations today.

The Global Connection - Episode #1: The 12,000-Year-Old Kitchen – What Archaeology Tells Us About How We Live

Dr. José Luis Punzo Diaz is a faculty member with Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History in the Michoacán department. Andrea Garza is in the Ancient Israel Studies MA program at Tel Aviv University and is looking to complete a PhD in archaeology.
Together they sat down with host Dr. Anna Sajecki for Episode #1 of The Global Connection podcast to reveal what archaeology can tell us about human patterns and belonging, nation-building and the way societies relate to one another.

TAU Unbound - Episode #26: The Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival

Not too many people know that Tel Aviv University’s Tisch School of Film & TV has been, since 1986, the host to one of the largest and most important gatherings of young filmmakers.
In this episode of TAU Unbound Ido Aharoni Aronoff is hosting two of the festival’s producers and managers:
Ms. Michal Rudnick (head of Marketing) and Dolev Amitai (head of foreign affairs and guests). Michal & Dolev share some of the main highlights of TISFF, its panel of seven reputable international guests and
judges (among them notable producers and directors) and other fun activities planned around the festival. Please share with others
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TAU Unbound - ”?Episode # 25: “What is Israel’s Secret Sauce”

Udi Aharoni, the longstanding CEO and academic Director of Lahav executive education at Tel Aviv University’s Coller School of Management, is our guest in this new episode of TAU Unbound. Host Ido Aharoni Aronoff is engaging in a lively conversation about how to communicate Israel’s unique ingredients that are largely responsible for the creation of the country’s innovation eco-system. Udi runs Lahav executive education, Coller’s executive management educational unit, which attracts executives from throughout the country as well from overseas. More on lahav’s program - https://global.lahav.ac.il/https://international.tau.ac.il

TAU Unbound - Episode #19: Who Owns America? Lessons from the Civil war

In episode 19 of TAU Unbound, host Ido Aharoni Aronoff is engaging in a fascinating conversation with one of the academic superstars of Tel Aviv University: historian Dr. Yael Strenhell, whose expertise is the American Civil War and its long aftermath. Dr. Sternhell is able to draw parallels from the Civil War era to today’s political struggles. At the core of the discussion: to whom does America belong? It appears that American society is still debating this fundamental question. Yael is the author of the acclaimed "Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South" (Harvard University Press, 2012). She is holding a joint appointment in the history department and the Department of English and American Studies.
00:00 Intro
01:07 - Personal background, love for history and humanity
02:42 - Specialization in American history
03:50 - Civil War in the United States
05:00 - About her father Prof. Zeev Sternhell
08:12 - Prof Zeev Sternhell legacy - an intellectual committed to society
08:45 - The American Civil War from the point of view of the refugee movement in it
13:00 - The basic questions of the civil war are still relevant today
14:50 - Is everyone really equal in America?
16:00 - America Divided. There is a non-violent struggle.
19:00 - Democracies and the information age in social networks
20:38 - The American Constitution
25:00 - Barack Obama
27:50 - The importance of the humanities and social sciences
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TAU Unbound - Episode #20: Why Archeology is the Science of the Future?

In episode #20 of TAU Unbound, host Ido Aharoni Aronoff introduces us to the great work of acclaimed archeologist Prof. Yuval Gadot. He has served as the Head of the Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel-Aviv University and is a lead archaeologist at the ‘City of David’ excavations project. Among his many other roles, Prof. Gadot is also the co-director of the ‘Givati Parking Lot’ Excavations and a leader of an environmental study of the rural landscape surrounding the city of Jerusalem. Gadot obtained his PhD in 2004 from Tel-Aviv University and throughout his illustrious career was exposed to the many possibilities to learn about the future by exploring our collective past. Prof. Gadot is a proponent of combining science and archaeology. Since 2018 Gadot serves as the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel-Aviv University. He has authored seven archaeological books and over one hundred scientific articles.
00:00 - intro
01:02 - Personal background
02:44 - The first archaeological dig - Tel Megiddo
04:23 - The Ancient East
06:13- Excavations and discoveries in the "City of David" in Jerusalem.
10:10 - a combination of zoologists, biologists, chemists in the "City of David"
12:49 - Daily life in Old Jerusalem
16:33 - The struggle between faith and what is found in the field
18:55 - International department for students from abroad within the archeology department
22:37 - Excavations in Masada
23:29 - The climate crisis. A lesson from the past to the present.
24:30 - How the archaeologists of the future will see the period we live in.
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TAU Unbound - Episode#21: Unveiling the Secret Life of Plants - With the Help of Bats

Department of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History.
Together they embarked on this incredible journey to explore the secrets of plants..
00:00 - intro
01:37 - Prof. Hadani's personal background
04:07 - Prof. Yuval's personal background.
05:00 - Israel as a junction where the bats are concentrated
07:00 - Collaboration on bioacoustics
08:48 - Do plants hear and make sounds?
09:26 - Plants react to the sound of insect wings
16:05 - Theoretical research. Development of evolutionary models
19:20 - The secret language of plants
19:30 - Using sonar inspired by bats
24:00 - Voice of tomato and vine
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TAU Unbound - Episode#23: Why the shift from massive satellites to nano-satellites will shape our future?

Tel-Aviv born, Prof. Meir Ariel is the Head of the Tel Aviv University New Space Center, the Director General of the Herzliya Science Center and a Researcher at the School of Electrical Engineering. Under his guidance, his students launched several nano-satellites into space in recent years. Here, Prof. Ariel is discussing with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff, why they shift to small satellites represents the future of the communications industry. Prof. Ariel aptly describes how low Earth orbit satellite networks are transforming the way satellite communications (SATCOM) are used.
00:00 - intro
01:55 - Personal background, why did you choose to specialize in space exploration?
06:05 - Electronics engineering
10:22 - Work as a science high school principal
12:11 - The launch of the first mini-satellite of the State of Israel
13:20- The importance of satellites nowadays.
20:00 - Most of the satellites are communication satellites
20:50 - 14 nanosatellites have been launched so far
23:40 - Cooperation with India
24:00 - What is the legacy of space
25:40 - Goals for the future. What is the challenge for the 21st century?
26:10 - Quantum satellite
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TAU Unbound - Episode#24: What is Urban Law and why is it so critically important to our lives?

Episode 24 brings the unique and brilliant voice of Prof. Yishai Blank, the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, the country’s leading law school. A graduate of Tel Aviv University, Prof. Blank’s background in the study of law is unique: he specializes in Local Government Law, Administrative Law, Global Cities, Urban Legal Theory and Policy, Law and Secularism, Legal Theory, and Jurisprudence. The conversation with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff centers around the important question of local and municipal law and how can decisions and policies made on a local level brings about a national change.
00:00 - intro
01:00 - About the Faculty of Law
02:00 - Personal background
06:34 - Legal Education
07:20 - The principles of the philosophy of law
08:30 - Philosophy VS Law
09:07 - Studies at Harvard University public law, constitutional law.
10:50 - Local law, local government and the legal system
14:10 - The political centralization of Israel's governments since its establishment
15:50 - The role of the British mandate in the judicial system
18:52 - The role of the judicial system
24:00 - The judicial series of local government institutions
29:14 - Shamgar Center for Digital Law and Artificial Intelligence.
29:50 - Environmental law
30:12 - The legal clinic of Tel Aviv University
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TAU Unbound - Episode #12: About Anne Frank’s Story and the African Continent Dr. Irit Back

In this episode of TAU Unbound our host, Ambassador Ido Aharoni Aronoff, is hosting Dr. Irit Back, the Head of the Inter-University program of African Studies at Tel Aviv University. Irit is a lecturer in the Department of Middle East and African Studies and Head of the Africa Research Program at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. Her research interests are contemporary Islam, conflicts resolution and regional organizations, primarily in the Horn of Africa and West Africa. Here we discuss the relevance of the Holocaust to the African narrative, cultural sensitivity, Golda Meir’s vision regarding Africa and Dr. Back’s own fascination with Africa. Join us for this important discussion and share if you like
00:00 intro
01:00 From teaching Hebrew to Ethiopian children to specializing in African studies
07:00 Religion in Africa, Christianity combined with local beliefs
11:00 Anne Frank and African Continent
14:00 Israel-Africa relations
19:00 USA-Africa relations
25:00 The Smartphone revolution In Africa
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