The presentations are done periodically throughout the term and are mainly related to the specific topic discussed during a session.
Possible Topics
- Israel’s political system
- Israel’s educational systems
- Israel’s military
- Globalization and Israel
- Israel’s municipal and regional systems
- The post-Zionism debate
- The Israeli economy
- Israel’s settlement projects and colonialism
- How Jewish is the Jewish state?
- The Holocaust in Israeli identity
- The Israeli Diaspora
- Jewish-ethnic groups in Israel
- The ultra-Orthodox sub-culture in Israel
- Civil society in Israel [NGOs, etc.]
- The Palestinian-Arab minority in Israel
- ‘Ethnic democracy’ versus ’ethnocracy’
- ‘Jewish and democratic’ versus ‘a state for all its citizens’
- Israeli popular music as a reflection of the country’s identity
- Israeli literature and Israeli identity
- Israel and the Jewish-Diaspora relations
- The development of Israel’s culinary as an expression of its identity
