Podcasts from the UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies

In this season of Israel In Depth, host and Director of the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center, Professor Dov Waxman, and the Center's Israel Institute Fellow, Dr. Tamar Hofnung, will discuss various facets of the unfolding Israel–Hamas War with a range

Please be advised that this episode contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence and rape that may be triggering for members of the audience or inappropriate for young listeners. ​In this episode, the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies'

In this season of Israel In Depth, host and Director of the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center, Professor Dov Waxman, will discuss various facets of the unfolding Israel–Hamas War with a range of experts across disciplines and backgrounds to help listene

In this season of Israel In Depth, host and Director of the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center, Professor Dov Waxman, will discuss various facets of the unfolding Israel–Hamas War with a range of experts across disciplines and backgrounds with the goal o

In this season of Israel In Depth, host and Director of the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center, Professor Dov Waxman, will discuss various facets of the unfolding Israel–Hamas War with a range of experts across disciplines and backgrounds with the goal o

In this season of Israel In Depth, host and Director of the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center, Professor Dov Waxman, will discuss various facets of the unfolding Israel–Hamas War with a range of experts across disciplines and backgrounds with the goal o

In this season of Israel In Depth, host and Director of the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center, Professor Dov Waxman, will discuss various facets of the unfolding Israel–Hamas War with a range of experts across disciplines and backgrounds with the goal o

In this season of Israel In Depth, host and Director of the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center, Professor Dov Waxman, will discuss various facets of the unfolding Israel–Hamas War with a range of experts across disciplines and backgrounds with the goal o

This season of Israel In Depth is co-sponsored by TLV1's podcast "Tel Aviv Review" and the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. This episode is co-hosted by Gilad Halpern and Prof. Dov Waxman.

This season of Israel In Depth is co-sponsored by TLV1's podcast "Tel Aviv Review" and the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. This episode is co-hosted by Gilad Halpern and Prof. Dov Waxman.

This season of Israel In Depth is co-sponsored by TLV1's podcast "Tel Aviv Review" and the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. This episode is co-hosted by Gilad Halpern and Prof. Dov Waxman.

This season of Israel In Depth is co-sponsored by TLV1's podcast "Tel Aviv Review" and the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. This episode is co-hosted by Gilad Halpern and Prof. Dov Waxman.

This season of Israel In Depth is co-sponsored by TLV1's podcast "Tel Aviv Review" and the UCLA Yandamp;S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. This episode is co-hosted by Gilad Halpern and Prof. Dov Waxman.

On this episode of Israel in Depth, Dov Waxman talks with political scientist Anders Persson, author of the new book “EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967–2019.”

On this episode of Israel in Depth, Dov Waxman talks with Emmanuel Navon, author of The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel (2020), about the history of Jewish, Zionist and Israeli diplomacy.

On this episode of Israel in Depth, Dov Waxman talks with Gal Ariely, a professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, about his new book, "Israel's Regime Untangled: Between Democracy and Apartheid

On this episode of Israel in Depth, Kenneth Stern, discusses the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of antisemitism and the controversy surrounding it. Recorded February 18, 2021.

On this episode of Israel in Depth, David Makovsky, the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute and formerandnbsp;senior advisor to the U.S. Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, discusses the major issues that will shape U.S.

On this episode of Israel in Depth, Dr. Raffaella Del Sarto, an Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), discusses the recently announced normalization of relations between M

On this episode of Israel in Depth, Dov Waxman talks to Scott Lasensky, who served as a senior policy advisor in the Obama Administration, about President Trump's record on Israel, his popularity among Israelis, and what the legacy of his administration w

On this episode of Israel in Depth, Dov Waxman talks with Rami Zeedan, an expert on the Arab minority in Israel, about the "events of October 2000" – when 13 Arab protesters were killed by the Israeli police – and about what has changed since then in the

On this episode of Israel in Depth, Dov Waxman talks with Israeli diplomat Uri Resnick, the director of Policy Planning at Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, about Israel's foreign relations, its treatment at the United Nations, and the significance of

On this episode of Israel in Depth, Dov Waxman talks with Marwa Maziad, a visiting scholar at the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies, about Israel's new agreement with the United Arab Emirates to normalize diplomatic relati

On this episode of Israel in Depth, Dov Waxman talks with Charles Freilich, former deputy national security adviser in Israel and a long-time senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, about threats to Israel's national security, warming ties with Gulf sta

On this episode of Israel in Depth, Dov Waxman talks with Ian Lustick, Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, about his new book, Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality. In the book, Professor Lustick argues

On this episode of Israel in Depth, Professor Dov Waxman talks with Dr. Jay Rothman, a scholar and practitioner of conflict resolution, about why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an identity-based conflict and the implications this has for how to resol

After a third inconclusive election in less than a year, Israel has simultaneously experienced a political crisis, a constitutional crisis and an escalating public health crisis. In this episode, Dov Waxman talks with Israeli political analyst and pollste

Israel's President Reuven Rivlin receives the UCLA Israel Studies Award in a ceremony held Feb. 18, 2020. Award in recognition of Rivlin’s leadership promoting tolerance, equality and civility.

Listen to our Israel in Depth podcast featuring an interview with Ambassador Dennis Ross, a veteran American diplomat who worked on Middle East peace for three presidents, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama. Recorded Feb. 20, 2020.

Covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is like no other beat. An insider perspective from journalist Jodi Rudoren, Editor-in-Chief of The Forward and former Jerusalem Bureau Chief for The New York Times. Event held January 27, 2020.

A talk by Professor Dov Waxman, Director of the UCLA YandS Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies. Event held January 15, 2020.

A talk by Dr. Nili Alon Amit, Israel Institute Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCLA YandS Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Event held November 21, 2019.

A talk by Visiting Assistant Professor Uri Dorchin, an anthropologist and former radio DJ. He explored the significance of Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) music in the formation of Israeli rap. Event held November 13, 2019.

Israel is the birthplace of both Waze and Mobileye along with numerous other successful tech companies. A fascinating talk about Israel's high-tech sector from Haaretz economics editor David Rosenberg, the author of Israel's Technology Economy: Origins a

The panel discussion came on the heels of Israelis going to the polls two times in the space of a year in national elections that ended in a stalemate. Participants weighed various possible outcomes. Event was held October 23, 2019.

What accounts for this vast corpus of foreign songs in Israeli music and what impact have such renderings had on the development of Israeli culture? After surveying this significant, yet largely overlooked, phenomenon, Visiting Assistant Professor Daniel

University of Haifa Professor Gad Barzilai discusses the interactions between Jewish and Palestinian identities and the heated debates on law and society within the global context.

Listen to the panel discussions from UCLA's first Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference.

Event from May 2014.

Arab-Israeli author speaks at UCLA.

Podcast introduction of an audio/visual project in which the sights and sounds of daily life in Jerusalem are transformed into a work of art.

Professor Gerald Steinberg speaks on Israel's reaction to the recent events in the Middle East.

Podcast of a public talk by Azzan Yadin-Israel, Rutgers University

Podcast of an interactive workshop with the band for UCLA students and the public

A public talk by Arie M. Dubnov, Acting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University

The Honorable Dan Meridor, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy

Hagai Levi, Miri Talmon-Bohm, Yoram Yovell, Motti Lerner, Moderator: Professor Shelley Salamensky

Jacob Dayan, Consul General of Israel; Hagai Levi, Steve Levinson, Rodrigo Garca, Blair Underwood, Rick Rosen, Moderator: David R. Ginsburg

Helen Desmond, Yoram Yovell, Krin Gabbard, Moderator: Fredelle Z. Spiegel

Public lecture by Asher Susser is Professor of Middle East Studies at Tel Aviv University and the Former Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Professor Susser is an internationally renowned expert on modern Middle Eastern history

A public lecture by the Consul General of Israel Jacob Dayan.

Gabriela Shalev, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations