Lecture: “A Tar Heel in the Knesset: Making Sense of Israel’s Tumultuous Parliament with Alon Tal”
Lecture: “A Tar Heel in the Knesset: Making Sense of Israel’s Tumultuous Parliament with Alon Tal”
Thursday, February 16 | 7:00-8:30 PM
Hitchcock Room, Stone Center
UNC-Chapel Hill
As the seventh American citizen (and the first North Carolinian!) to serve in Israel’s Knesset, seeing Israel’s complex and colorful legislative and government decision making up close was sometimes uplifting, sometimes appalling and always fascinating. Based on dozens of idiosyncratic and often humorous anecdotes, this talk describes lesser-known aspects of the rough and tumble of Israeli politics, through the eyes of an academic who with little warning had to learn how to promote key issues like environmental protection, religious pluralism and gender equality.
Sponsored by UNC Hillel, DAMES, Department of Political Science, Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies.
