A webinar exploring the personal archive of David Ben-Gurion, the founding father of Israel.
Tuesday, November 17, 202611:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Pacific Time)Webinar
11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern / 19:00 UK / 21:00 Israel
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Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Political Science and the UCLA Center for Middle East Development. This event is part of UCLA's International Education Week.
Paula Kabalo is an associate professor at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is the head of the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies (MALI). During 2013-2021, she served as the director of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism. From 2011-2017, she founded and headed the Woodman Scheller Israel Studies International MA program.
Her most recent book Israeli Community Action: Living Through the War of Independence (Indiana University Press) was awarded the Association for Israel Studies' Shapiro Prize for 2020. Her current research focus is on the history of communities and civil society in Israel and the inter-relations between David Ben-Gurion and various strata of society in Israel and the Jewish world. Together with Dr. Hila Shalem Baharad, she is co-authoring a book on the relationship between Israel's return migrates (Olim) and the founding father, David Ben-Gurion.
Kabalo was a Johns Hopkins Philanthropy Fellow in 2001, a Shusterman Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at Boston University from 2007-2009, and a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Center for Civil Society and Philanthropy in the fall of 2021. In the spring of 2022, she was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley's Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and taught at the UC Berkeley History Department.
Together with Dr. Adi Sherzer and Dr. Adi Portuguess, Kabalo was awarded the 2023 Prime Minister Prize for their curating project of the Ben-Gurion Archives exhibition hall.
Professor Steven E. Zipperstein (moderator) is the Director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. He teaches in the Department of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, and is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. He serves as a Distinguished Senior Scholar at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and as a Senior Fellow at The Hague Initiative for International Cooperation in the Netherlands. Zipperstein is the author of three peer-reviewed books, most recently The Legal Case for Palestine: A Critical Assessment (Routledge, 2024).
DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.
Sponsor(s): Center for Middle East Development, Political Science