Pluralistic Israel: Women, Minorities, and Diversity the Association for Israel Studies: Annual Conference

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June 7–9, 2021 Pluralistic Israel: Women, Minorities, and Diversity The Association for Israel Studies: Annual Conference

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Program in Jewish Culture & Society EVENT SPONSORS

The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago The Association for Israel Studies The Israel Institute The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences The Program in Jewish Culture & Society The Academic Engagement Network The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics The Gies Business School The Law School—Comparative Criminal Procedure and Policing The Office of the Chancellor for Equity and Diversity Hewitt International The Program in Comparative and World Literature The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies Pluralistic Israel: Women, Minorities, and Diversity

June 7–9, 2021

Hosted Virtually by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

PROGRAM 2 Contents

3 Welcome from the AIS President 4 Welcome from the Conference Chair 5 Conference Team 5 Association for Israel Studies 6 Program Committee 7 AIS Award Winners 8 Conference Information 10 Virtual Event Code of Conduct 12 Schedule at a Glance 16 Time Zone Conversions 17 Opening Events 18 Pre-Conference Events 22 Conference Schedule 59 Index of Participants 3 Welcome from the AIS President

It is my immense pleasure to welcome a deeper interdisciplinary understanding of the you to the 37th Annual Meeting of the complexities of Israel, but also offers a lens through which to better compare and understand other Association of Israel Studies, its first virtual countries who likewise work through issues of conference. diversity, identity and (in)equality. The intellectual stimulation and satisfaction of sharing the growing Although we regret not being able to get together and diverse scholarship in Israel Studies through our in person, we are thrilled to be able to engage conferences is vital to the field of Israel Studies. each other virtually, to learn about and discuss the cutting-edge Israel Studies research you are all We are also proud to present the AIS Life-Time conducting. Achievement Award, AIS Young Scholar Award, Yonathan Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Israel The conference is the culmination of a year-long Studies, and the Ben Halpern Award for the Best effort on the part of AIS to continue to make Dissertation in Israel Studies. These awards are an Israel Studies research accessible to its members indication of the excellence in Israel Studies that the in the midst of this challenging year. Throughout AIS is helping to support. the year the AIS has been able to co-sponsor symposiums and lectures, and get the word out On behalf of the AIS and its Board, I want to extend about the many virtual events sponsored by our a huge thank you to the University of Illinois, institutional members. We offered a virtual early- Urbana-Champaign for hosting this conference, and career workshop for graduate students led by Arieh especially to Conference Chair Professor Rachel Saposnik, and we launched a new AIS Distinguished S. Harris for her incredible vision and execution of Lectureship Program so that the research of this tremendous conference. I also want to thank our distinguished scholars could be highlighted her whole team, including the important work of throughout the year as they lecture to universities Professor Dara Goldman and the valuable assistance across the globe. of Heidi Bell. A big thanks also to AIS team member and Assistant to the Conference Chair, Anina Selve The highlight for the AIS each year is its conference. for her tremendous help with this conference. It was with deep regret that we had to cancel Having to negotiate the first virtual conference, the AIS conference in June 2020 organized by covering multiple time zones, is an incredible feat. Professors Michael Cohen, Brian Horowitz, and Ari Thank you to the AIS Vice President Arieh Saposnik, Ofengenden at Tulane University. I thank them for Executive Director Asaf Shamis, Treasurer Ilan their hard work for what certainly would have been Ben Ami, and Assistant to the Executive Director, a very successful conference. Unfortunately, none of Stephanie Colley, for their vital assistance. Thank us had, at that moment, the experience or technical you to the fantastic Program Committee. I am know-how to hold a virtual conference on relatively sure that this conference will energize the already- short notice. vibrant scholarship on Israel being conducted by our Given last year’s need to cancel, we are especially members. excited there are over 450 registered attendees and almost 400 participating presenters (out of Yael Aronoff 500 current AIS members). This year’s conference President, Association of Israel Studies promises to be engaging and timely. Attendees Director, the Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and presenters will explore Israel’s diversities, and Modern Israel grappling with its past and present and thinking Serling Chair in Israel Studies through its possible futures, always attentive to the Michigan State University aspirations toward and need for greater equality. As always, the field of Israel Studies not only offers 4 Welcome from the Conference Chair

I am delighted to welcome you to The opening night events include a conversation the University of Illinois for the 37th with the former United States of America Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, who grew up Association of Israel Studies annual in Urbana-Champaign, and whose father Michael conference—even if it is only virtually. Shapiro was a faculty member in the Department of English for many years, and served as co-founder For 14 years the University has been home to the and inaugural director of the Program in Jewish Israel Studies Project (ISP), housed in the Program in Culture & Society. He will be in conversation with Jewish Culture & Society. Through the resources of Tamara Cofman Wittes, a senior fellow in the Center the ISP we have strategically implemented a robust for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution. array of Israel Studies programming across campus, including organizing visits from prominent cultural Look out for a musical performance by Mira Awad figures, developing conferences and workshops, and Guy Mintus. We are also screening Awad’s and offering multiple courses within the Program in 8-episode television series Muna. We conclude the Jewish Culture & Society. Through this programming, conference with a dance party/workshop for non- we estimate that over the last 10 years more than dancers with Gaga practitioner Omri Drumlevich. 2,000 people participated, including over 700 Keynote Dany Bahar will speak about Israel’s students completing semester-long coursework. response to COVID and the success of its swift This work has enabled us to promote greater vaccination program. His respondent Rebecca Smith understanding of and engagement with Israeli was part of the University of Illinois taskforce on culture and society, in all of its complexities. The COVID, which served as a model for universities hosting of the international organization’s annual across the United States. conference is the next step in our efforts to advance the University of Illinois’s role in the study of Israel. There is also a full film program available 6-13 June through the conference platform, and conversations This year’s conference theme “Pluralistic Israel: with filmmakers and directors throughout the three Women, Minorities, and Diversity” recognizes efforts days of the conference including Awad, Ethiopian we began in 2013 to focus on bringing a diverse filmmaker Esti Almo Wexler, and feminist filmmakers range of Israeli voices to campus and celebrating the and activists Smadar Zamir and Lior Elefant. Also work of Israeli women, Arabs, Ethiopians, Palestinians look out for our wellness corner where you will and Mizrahi writers and scholars. In 2019, we hosted be able to follow Ariana Starkman as she leads us a taskforce on the situation of women in Israel through some light yoga. Feel free to engage her Studies, launching a major initiative for the AIS which anytime through the on demand video. has led to a new mentoring program and the creation of a women’s caucus. Drawing on these particular And don’t forget to check out our exhibition space strengths within our own community, we envisaged where you can find information about the latest a conference that explores diverse communities publications by AIS members, resources available to in Israel, including religious minorities (Christian, faculty from Israel—or teaching Israel Studies, and a Muslim, Bahai and Druze), ethnic minorities and dedicated channel for tech support where you can women. These hopes have been realized in a rich and test your equipment or ask for instructional support inclusive conference program. for navigating the program platform and managing In addition to the hundreds of conference papers, zoom functionalities. presentations and roundtables on these themes, you will find program highlights that address We look forward to sharing this exciting conference these topics. We draw your attention to our with you! plenary “Women, Activism and Israeli Law” on the ways women are using the law to advocate for Rachel S. Harris women’s rights across traditional divisions in Israeli AIS Conference Chair 2021 society, fighting against gender based violence, Editor in Chief Journal of Jewish Identities discrimination and inequity featuring journalists Associate Professor of Israeli Literature and Culture Dahlia Lithwick and Allison Sommer and scholar- The Program in Jewish Culture & Society activists Amal Elsana Alh’jooj and Ruth Halperin- The Program in Comparative and World Literature Kaddari. The University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign 5 Conference Team

Pluralistic Israel: Women, Minorities, and Diversity

Conference Chair: Rachel S. Harris Conference Committee: Dara Goldman, Brett Kaufman, Liat Alon AIS Assistant to the Conference Chair: Anina Selve UIUC Assistant to the Conference Chair: Heidi Bell Program Design: Gretchen Wieshuber, Studio 2D Video Support: Eric Schumacher, Andrew Stengel Technical Support: Martin Lamping, Frederick David Beuttler Conference Assistants: Marco Parodi, Nobuto Sato IT Help Desk: Jason Yoon

Association for Israel Studies

Executive Officers President: Yael Aronoff Vice President: Arieh Saposnik Executive Director: Asaf Shamis Treasurer: Ilan Ben-Ami

Second Term Board Members: Rafi Cohen Almagor, Bat-Zion Eraqi Korman, Rachel Fish, Reuven Gafni, Rachel S. Harris, Nahum Karlinksy, Rami Zeedan, Nadav Shelef, Esther Carmel Hakim, Orit Rozin First Term Board Members: Nohad Áli, Tally Kritzman-Amir, Yitzhak Conforti, Ron Hassner, Ian lustick, Csaba Nikolenyi, Ilan Peleg, Itamar Radai, Ayelet Harel Shalev Forum of Immediate Past Presidents: Donna Robinson Divine and Ilan Troen Assistant to Executive Director: Stephanie Colley ISR Editorial Board: Yoram Peri and Paul Scham 6 Program Committee

History Conference Chair Yaron Ayalon (College of Charleston) Rachel S. Harris (University of Illinois Urbana- Orit Rozin (Tel Aviv University) Champaign) Ilan Troen (Brandeis University / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) International Relations and Conflict Resolution Anthropology Umut Uzer (Istanbul Technical University) Virginia Dominguez (University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign) Israel/Diaspora Relation Dan Rabinowitz (Tel Aviv University) Sara Hirschhorn (Northwestern University) Donna Robinson Divine (Smith College) Archeology Brett Kaufman (University of Illinois Urbana- Law Champaign) Mohammed Wattad (Zefat Academic College) Ronit Irshai (Bar-Ilan University) Art, Architecture and Material Culture Tal Dekel (Tel Aviv University) Media & Communications Tamar El-Or (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Yoram Peri (University of Maryland) Arab and Palestinian Society in Israel MENA Jewish experience in Israel Nohad Ali (Technion—Israel Institute of Technology) Nancy Berg (University of Washington at St Louis) Elie Rekhess (Northwestern University) Liat Alon (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Mostafa Hussein (University of Michigan at Ann Music Arbor) Galeet Dardashti (University of Pennsylvania) Business, Economics, and Entrepreneurship Performing Arts and Performance Studies Jeff Brown (University of Illinois Urbana- Jan Erkert (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Champaign) Edna Nahshon (Jewish Theological Seminary) Avia Spivak (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Political Science Disability Studies Nadav Shelef (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Roni Holler (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ronnie Olesker (St. Lawrence University) Film Studies Rami Zeedan (The University of Kansas) Yaron Peleg (Cambridge University) Religious Studies Dan Chyutin (Tel Aviv University) Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University) Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Ruth Halperin-Kaddari (Bar-Ilan University) Orna Sasson-Levy (Bar-Ilan University) Sociology Tanya Zion-Waldoks (The Hebrew University of Aziza Khazzoom (Indiana University) Jerusalem) Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University of Geography the Negev) Maoz Azaryahu (University of Haifa) Teaching and Pedagogy Rachel Havrelock (University of Illinois, Chicago) Olga Gershenson (University of Massachusetts– Hebrew Literature Amherst) Rachel Feldhay Brenner (University of Wisconsin– Zionism Madison) Rachel Fish (Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism) Adia Mendelsohn Maoz (The Open University of Joshua Shanes (College of Charleston) Israel) 7 AIS Award Winners

Lifetime Achievement Award | Presented by Alan Dowty 2021 WINNER Benny Morris (University of Haifa)

2020 WINNER Yael Zerubavel (Rutgers University)

Young Scholar Award | Presented by Ayelet Harel Shalev 2021 WINNERS Alexander Kaye (Brandeis Universty) Amnon Cavari (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya)

Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies | Presented by Csaba Nikolenyi 2021 WINNER (for books published in 2020): Paula Kabalo for her book Israeli Community in Action: Living Through the War of Independence (Indiana University Press)

2020 WINNERS (for books published in 2019): Sarah Willen, Fighting For Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins (University of Pennsylvania Press) The book awarded an “Honorable Mention” as short-listed for final consideration is: Steven Wagner, Statecraft by Stealth: Secret Intelligence and British Rule in Palestine (Cornell University Press, 2019)

Halpern Award for Best Dissertation in Israel Studies | Presented by Naama Sheffi 2021 CO-WINNERS Lindsey Pullum for her dissertation: “Faithful/Traitor: Violence, Nationalism, and Performances of Druz Belonging” (Indiana University). Erez Maggor for his dissertation “Politics of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial State and the Making of Israel’s Strat-Up Nation” (New York University).

2020 WINNER Masua Sagiv (Tel Aviv University), for “A Time to Rend, and a Time to Sew: Halachic Feminism in Israel Between Law and Society”.

HONORABLE MENTION Irit Carmon Popper (Technion—Israel Institute of Technology), “Art as Preservation: Intervention in sites-in-conflict, Israel 1948-2008”.

Kimmerling Award for Best Graduate Paper | Presented by Reuven Gafni 2020 WINNER Hayim Katsman (University of Washington) for his paper, “The Hyphen Cannot Hold: Contemporary Trends in Religious Zionism”. 8 Conference Information

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IN MEMORIAM

Rachel Feldhay Brenner 1946–2021 President, Association for Israel Studies 2007–2009 Vice President, Association for Israel Studies 2005–2007 We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague. Her death after a short battle with cancer was a shock to the AIS community. She served on this year’s program committee, and continued to teach until only a few days before she died. We will miss her strong presence, thoughtful guidance and tireless commitment to the field. Brenner was the author of seven books and eighty articles. Her 2019 book, Polish Literature and the Holocaust: Eyewitness Testimonies, 1942–1947, examines literary responses of Poles to the genocide of Jews during the Nazi occupation. Her book The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw, 1939–1945 received the University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies. Brenner’s other monographs include Inextricably Bonded—Israel Jewish and Arab Writers Re-Visioning Culture and Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum. In recognition of her distinguished publishing record, she was awarded the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professorship of Jewish Studies, which she held from 2009 to 2014. In 2020, she was selected to be the inaugural Harvey L. Temkin and Barbara Myers Temkin Professor in Hebrew Language and Literature. During her career she held numerous fellowships including at The US Memorial Holocaust Museum where she was Fellow at the Research Workshop on Diaries and Autobiographical Writings (2004), the Sosland Foundation Fellow (2005), and Fellow at the Workshop on Microcosms of the Holocaust (2016). Brenner held fellowships in Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (2001), and was a Visiting Professor at Hebrew University for The Mosse Faculty Exchange Program at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (2004). She was Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities (2028- 2013). Her awards include, Canadian Studies Research Grant awarded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Standard Research Grant awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1990), National Endowment Fellowship (1990) awarded by the USA Government. The University of Wisconsin–Madison awarded her the Kellet mid-career award (2011), the Hilldale award (2015), and the WARF Elaine Marks named professorship (2019). Brenner is survived by her children Guy Brenner and Shelly Brenner, her brother Yoram Feldhay, and her four grandsons, Jacob Asoulin and Eli, Levi, and Ari Brenner. 12 Schedule at a Glance

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MA:01 | Women, Law, and Religion in TA:01 | Transgressive Queering in WA:01 | Multicultural Israel: As Seen Israel: Contemporary Dilemmas Art, Militarism and Religion on TV (B) MA:02 | Avoda Zara—Migrant TA:02 | Pre-State Zionism and the WA:02 | New Perspectives on Israel Session A Session Workers in Hebrew Literature Labor Movement National Trail (Shvil Israel) MA:03 | Israeli Political Discourse TA:03 | Neoliberalism and the WA:03 | First-Generation Higher from the Inside Hi-Tech Nation: The Tension Between Education Students in Israeli Innovation, Nationalism and Academia—Mizrahim, Palestinians, MA:04 | Practicing (Towards | Colonialism and Haredi Women Diversity in Israeli Performing Arts TA:04 | Memory Construction WA:04 | American Jewry, the Israeli MA:05 | Is There a New Quality of of Historical and Religious Sites Labor Movement and the Debate Jewish-Arab Relations? Berlin and in Israel: Between Pluralism and Over the Meaning of Zionism in the Dubai as Case Studies Majoritarianism 1950s MA:06 | Roundtable on TA:05 | America and Israel: Thoughts WA:05 | Women as Public Voice: Mamlakhtiyut and Israeli Attitudes and Policies Golda Meir, Female Diplomats and Towards the Jewish Diaspora: Four Feminist Struggles for Equality Perspectives TA:06 | Gender and Migration: Israelis Between Love and Agency in WA:06 | The Politics of International MA:07 | Contemporary Issues in Contemporary Germany Trade Networks: From the Local to Israel`s National Security the Global TA:07 | Valley of Tears—Between the MA:08 | Book Roundtable: Anat ‘Historical’ and the ‘Televisual’ Event WA:07 | Zionism: Negotiating the Stern’s “Combatants on Trial—The Practicalities of its Early Ideology Legal System of the IDF during the TA:08 | Jews, Muslims and Christians: 1948 War” At Work and at Leisure WA:08 | Zionisms in the Global South: Non-Jewish Perspectives (A) MA:09 | Making the City a Home: TA:09 | What Women Want? Women Immigrants, Residence, and Social Candidates and Members of Knesset: WA:09 | Ethnic Discourse and Alienation in Tel Aviv, 1920-1948 Agendas and Politics Political Roles in a Democratic Nation State MA:10 | Israel and Its Palestinian TA:10 | A Quarter of a Century of Arab Minority: A Relationship in Flux Israel Studies: Perspectives from WA:10 | Women in the IDF—Dialogue Journal Editors Among Scholars Following Book MA:11 | Memory and Cultural Publications Representations: Intergenerational TA:11 | The Role of Third Parties and Relations in Israeli Poetry, Graphic Mediators in the Israeli-Arab Conflict WA:11 | Holy Time, Holy People: Novels and Art Negotiating Religious Identity and TA:12 | Filmmakers Elad and Esti Practice in a Secular State MA:12 | On the Director’s Chair Sits a Wexler in Conversation with Shayna Woman Weiss WA:12 | Cultural Program: In Conversation with Mira Awad 13 Schedule at a Glance

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MB:01 | Ethnicity as a Problematic TB:01 | Druze, Multiculturalism and WB:01 | Unknown: Diaspora and Unfixed Category National Participation Communities in Israel MB:02 | Looking Back: Nostalgia TB:02 | Jerusalem: War, Culture and WB:02 | Echoes of the Holocaust as Session B Session among Jewish Immigrants in Israel the Built Environment a Force in Israeli Politics, Militarism to their “Old” Homeland and Culture TB:03 | Palestinian and Arabic MB:03 | Pluralizing Marriage: Private Language Presence in the University WB:03 | New Research Agendas Jewish Marriage in Israel from Legal Classroom in the Study of Israeli-Palestinian and Socio-Cultural Perspectives Relations TB:04 | Multicultural Israel: As Seen MB:04 | Religion and Spiritualism: on TV (A) WB:04 | Mandate Palestine: Methodology, Theology and Security Conceptions, Perspectives and TB:05 | Soft Power, Diplomacy, and Realities MB:05 | Who Speaks for the International Relationships Palestinian? WB:05 | Literature and Identity TB:06 | Israel and the Politics of MB:06 | Israeli Film in Contemporary Middle Eastern Minorities WB:06 | Notions of Prestige—The Contexts IDF, Gender and the Public Attitudes TB:07 | Book Roundtable: Oxford to Militarism MB:07 | Translation: Between Jews Handbook on Israeli Politics and and Arabs Society WB:07 | Zionisms in the Global South: Jewish Perspectives (B) MB:08 | Both Sides of the Green TB:08 | Jewish Identity outside the Line: Identity, Politics and Discourse Rabbanut’s Reach WB:08 | In the Age of Covid: on the Occupied Territories Community, Politics and Gender TB:09 | Immigration and Security MB:09 | Gender and Political Culture Discourses: A Threat Within WB:09 | The Impact of Diversity, Ethnicity and Gender on the MB:10 | Minority Women in TB:10 | Defining Gender Rights and Classroom Professional Careers Identities WB:10 | Women Teachers and MB:11 | Roundtable on Israeli Foreign TB:11 | Zionist Historiography: Teaching Women: Moving the Policy Challenges in 2021 Between Emotion and Narrative Gendered Educational Boundaries MB:12 | Cultural Program: Yoga with WB:11 | Cultural Program: Ariana Performance and Q&A with Dancer Omri Drumlevichge of Covid-19: Community, Politics and Gender WB:9 Israeli Cinema: Beyond the National WB:10 The Impact of Diversity, Ethnicity and Gender on the Classroom WB:11 Echoes of the Holocaust as a Force in Israeli Politics, Militarism and Culture

MC:00 | WELCOME EVENT + TC:00 | AIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY WC:00 | PLENARY: WOMEN, AWARDS + Q & A with Ambassador ACTIVISM & ISRAELI LAW Dan Shapiro and Tamara Cofman

Session C Session Wittes 14 Schedule at a Glance

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MD:01 | The Potential of Blackness in TD:01 | Ethiopians: Immigration to WD:01 | Health and Science: Israel: The Case of Ethiopian-Israelis Exodus Between Zionism and Religion MD:02 | Haredi Pluralism: Social, TD:02 | Militarism: Changing WD:02 | Bedouin, Palestinian and Session D Session Political and Environmental Perspectives, Changing Expectations Egyptian Literature, TV, and Film Repositioning TD:03 | Book Roundtable on Ian WD:03 | A Peace Plan—or Two MD:03 | Mizrahi Women: Between Lustick`s “Paradigm Lost: From Two- WD:04 | The Politics of BDS in Israel Zionism, Religion and Immigration State Solution to One-State Reality” and Abroad (University of Pennsylvania Press, MD:04 | Evolving Political 2019) WD:05 | Imagined Palestinians Theologies—Zionism Beyond the Nation State TD:04 | Religion and Feminism: New WD:06 | No Chuppah! Interfaith and Directions Common Law Marriages in Israel MD:05 | Using Legal Structures in Empowering Victims TD:05 | The State Through Religious WD:07 | Between the Gaza Wars and Eyes: Negotiating Religion and the Nation-State Law: The Israeli- MD:06 | Tracing a History of Hebrew Nationalism Arab Conflict in the Israeli Media Art and Culture TD:06 | Culture: A Victim of Politics? WD:08 | Religion and Art MD:07 | Tel Aviv: Living, Planning and Filming TD:07 | Israel and Democracy: A WD:09 | Global Politics and Shifting Foundation Security: The Role of International MD:08 | Living in Israel’s Periphery: Agreements Political, Social and Security TD:08 | Urban Planning: Art, Politics Tensions and Technology WD:10 | Women in Hebrew Literature: Motherhood, Aging, and MD:09 | From Ideology to Funding: TD:09 | Roundtable and Gender The Shaping of Israeli Education Memorial Session in Honor of Rachel Brenner z”l MD:10 | Israel-Diaspora and COVID- 19: Sociological and Educational TD:10 | Political Activism and Aspects Political Protest: Witnessing Violence in Person and in Poetry MD:11 | Book Roundtable on Gal Ariely`s “Israel`s Regime Untangled: TD:11 | Class in Transition Between Between Apartheid and Democracy” MENA Jews and Mizrahim in Israel (Cambridge University Press, 2021) TD:12 | Roundtable on Israeli Cinema MD:12 | Documentary Filmmakers and Television: Beyond the National Tomer and Barak Heyman in Conversation with Dan Chyutin 15 Schedule at a Glance

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ME:01 | Roundtable Honoring Joel TE:01 | Roundtable on Zionism, MINI PLENARY Migdal Antisemitism and Free Speech WE:01 | MINI-PLENARY Christian on Campus: Challenges for US ME:02 | Terminology and Activism: Churches and the Jewish State

Session E Session Academia Defining Islamophobia, Antisemitism WE:02 | MINI-PLENARY Continuity and Antizionism TE:02 | APSA-Sponsored and Change in Political Culture; Roundtable: US-Israel Relations in a ME:03 | Theatre as Cultural Meeting Israel and Beyond (tribute to the Post-Trump Era Point work of Myron J. Aronoff) TE:03 | Book Roundtable on Mira ME:04 | Blackness and Brownness in WE:03 | Cultural Program: Dance Sucharov`s “Borders and Belonging: Israel Party with Omri Drumlevich A Memoir” ME:05 | WOMEN’S CAUCUS TE:04 | A One-State Reality? State and Regime in Israel-Palestine TE:05 | Gendering the Hospital: Reproduction, Sexuality, and Disability TE:06 | Parliamentary Politics in Times of Pandemic: The Knesset in Comparative Perspective TE:07 | Reckoning with Plurality: Intersubjective Transformations in Israeli Contemporary Dance

MF:00 | CULTURAL PROGRAM: TF:00 | KEYNOTE: COVID AND THE MIRA AWAD AND GUY MINTUS IN POLITICS OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN CONCERT ISRAEL Session F Session

Break Viewing Party for Film: Happy Times d. Michael Mayer Break

TG:00 | CULTURAL PROGRAM: Q&A WITH FILMMAKER MICHAEL MAYER AND OLGA GERSHENSON Session G Session 16 Time Zone Conversions

PROGRAM TIMES ARE NOTED IN U.S. CENTRAL. See relevant time zones in this chart:

TIME US West US Central New York Brazil London Paris Israel Mumbai Beijing ZONE Coast (–2) (0) (+1) (+3) (+6) (+7) (+8) (+10:30) (+13)

Session A 06:00– 08:00– 09:00– 11:00– 14:00– 15:00– 16:00– 18:30– 21:00– 07:30 09:30 10:30 12.30 15:30 16:30 17:30 20:00 22.30

Session B 07:30– 09.30– 10:30– 12:30– 15:30– 16:30– 17:30– 20:00– 22:30– 09:00 11:00 12:00 14:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 21:30 24:00

BREAK 09:00– 11:00– 12:00– 14:00– 17:00– 18:00– 19:00– 21:30– 24:00– 09:30 11:30 12:30 14:30 17:30 18:30 19:30 22:00 24:30+

Session C* 09:30– 11:30– 12:30– 14:30– 17:30 18:30– 19:30– 22:00– 00:30+– 11:00 13:00 14:00 16:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 23:30 02:00+

Session D 11:00– 13:00– 14:00– 16:00– 19:00– 20:00– 21:00– 23:30– 02:00+– 12:30 14:30 15:30 17:30 20:30 21:30 22:30 01:00+ 03:30+

Session E 12:30– 14:30– 15:30– 17:30– 20:30– 21:30– 22:30– 01:00+– 03:30+– 14:00 16:00 17:00 19:00 22:00 23:00 24:00 02:30+ 05:00+

BREAK 14:00– 16:00– 17:00– 19:00– 22:00– 23:00– 24:00– 02:30+– 05:30+– 14:30 16:30 17:30 19:30 22:30 23:30 24:30 03:00+ 06:30+

Session F 14:30– 16:30– 17:30– 19:30– 22:30– 23:30– 24:30– 03:00+– 06:30+– 16:00 18:00 19:00 21:00 24:00 01:00+ 02:00+ 04:30+ 08:00+

BREAK 16:00– 18:00– 19:00– 21:00– 24:00– 01:00+– 02:00+– 04:30+– 08:00+– 18:00 20:00 21:00 23:00 02:00+ 03:00+ 04:00+ 06:30+ 10:00+

Session G 18:00– 20:00– 21:00– 23:00– 02:00+– 03:00+– 04:00+– 06:30+– 10:00+– 19:30 21:30 22:30 24:30 03:30+ 04:30 05:30+ 08:00+ 11:30+

*Session C on Tuesday is the AIS General Assembly and starts 30 minutes earlier.

Tuesday Wed. 8 June, 2021 9 June

Business 09:00– 11:00– 12:00– 14:00– 17:00– 18:00– 09:00– 21:30– 24:00– Meeting 11:00 13:00 14:00 16:00 19:00 20:00 11:00 23:30 02:00+

+ Indicates crossing the time/date line. 17 Opening Events

Welcome

Chancellor Robert Dara Goldman Yael Aronoff Rachel S. Harris J. Jones Director, Program President of the AIS Conference Chancellor of the in Jewish Culture & Association for Israel Chair University of Illinois Society Studies

Awards Ceremony

Featured Event Tamara Cofman Wittes in conversation with Ambassador Daniel B. Shapiro

Daniel B. Shapiro was Tamara Cofman Wittes is a named Distinguished senior fellow in the Center Visiting Fellow at Tel Aviv for Middle East Policy University’s Institute of at Brookings, where she National Security Studies focuses on U.S. policy in in March 2017, following the Middle East. a a diverse career of over Wittes served as deputy 20 years in senior foreign assistant secretary of state policy and national security for Near Eastern affairs positions in the United from November of 2009 to States government. January 2012, coordinating He was appointed by U.S. policy on democracy President Obama to be and human rights in the United States Ambassador Middle East during the to Israel, a position he held from July 2011 until the Arab uprisings. Wittes is a co-host of Rational end of the Obama Administration. Security, a weekly podcast on foreign policy and national security issues. She is currently writing a He previously served as Senior Director for the book, Our SOBs, on the tangled history of America’s Middle East and North Africa on the National ties to autocratic allies. Security Council. 18 Pre-Conference Events

Graduate Student Workshop WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, JUNE 2–3, 2021

CHAIR: BRETT KAUFMAN, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

FACULTY MENTORS: ELISHEVA ROSMAN-STOLLMAN, Bar-Ilan University MORDECHAI INBARI, UNC Pembroke

STUDENT PARTICIPANTS: EINAT BEN DOV, Chapman University MEI-TAL NADLER, The Open University of Israel MORDY MILLER, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem NOY NA’AMAN, University of Toronto This year’s Association for Israel Studies graduate workshop will take place over two half days hosted virtually by the University of Illinois. Participants will have the opportunity to workshop a dissertation chapter, either for the dissertation, or for publication as an article. Participants will read the pre-circulated materials in advance and meet as a group with faculty mentors.

Publishing In Israel Studies Journals: A Roundtable with Editors THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2021, 12:00–13:00 CST

CHAIR: BRETT KAUFMAN, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ADIA MENDELSON-MAOZ Israel Studies Review NATAN ARIDAN Israel Studies ORIT ROZIN Journal of Israeli History ALEX KAYE Journal of Israeli History NIMROD LIN Journal of Israeli History This year’s Association for Israel Studies includes an open event for both scholars and graduate students with the editors of leading Israel Studies journals to discuss preparing an article for submission and the process of publishing in the field.

AIS Board Meeting SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2021, 10:00–14:00 CST

CHAIR: YAEL ARONOFF, Michigan State University This year’s Association for Israel Studies board meeting will take place virtually. Instructions and timing will be sent to board members in advance. ram Film Prog 20 Film Program

Smadar Shifman & Lior Elefant TV Series in conversation with Cindy Muna | 2019 | d. Mira Awad | 8 x 30min episodes Stern Sponsored by SLCL—the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, UIUC

Shorts Program: Dance with Omri Drumlevich Film Program Committee Shabbat Shalom #8 | Music—Can Can by Offenbach | Created and Dan Chyutin (Tel Aviv choreographed by Omri Drumlevich University), Olga Gershenson (University of January Red | Music by Dalliance | Directed and choreographed by Massachusetts, Amherst), Omri Drumlevich Martin B Shichtman (Eastern Far | Work in Progress | Directed and choreographed by Omri Michigan State), Cindy Stern Drumlevich (Chicago Festival of Israeli Sponsored by the Academic Engagement Network Cinema), Rachel S. Harris (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)

with thanks to the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema Featured Event Mira Awad

Monday 7 June 16:30–18:00 Mira Awad and Guy Mintus in Concert

gwriter, er, son Sing ss and artivista actre ist through a (activ rt) Guy Mintus s erie Israeli pianist, composer, V S vocalist and educator na T m Creator of Mu gra Pro Film in the Wednesday 9 June 8:00–9:30 Mira Awad in conversation with Luisa-Elena Delgado 22 Schedule Monday, June 7, 2021

ADIA MENDELSON-MAOZ, The Open University of SESSION A | 08:00–09:30 CST Israel Migrant Workers in Contemporary Israeli Literature—Questioning Empathy and Ethics (MA:01) Women, Law, and Religion in Israel: Contemporary Dilemmas CHAIR: RUTH HALPERIN-KADDARI, Bar-Ilan (MA:03) Israeli Political Discourse from the University Inside

TECH MODERATOR: RONIT IRSHAI, Bar-Ilan CHAIR: BRIAN HOROWITZ, Tulane University University TECH MODERATOR: ITAMAR RADAI, The Open University of Israel MANAL TOTRY-JUBRAN, Bar-Ilan University Is Multiculturalism Bad for Minorities: Internal CSABA NIKOLENYI, Concordia University Group Conflicts in Israel National Unity Governments in Israel: Theory, MASUA SAGIV, Tel Aviv University History, and the Role of Personalization “Faithful are the Wounds of a Friend”: Strategies URI COHEN, Tel Aviv University for Social Change in Israeli Halachic Feminism Democratization Process in Israel Parties: The Herut HADAS RAICHELSON, Bar-Ilan University Movement Before 1977 The Criminalization of Get Refusal AHARON ARIEL LAVI, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev YOFI TIROSH, Tel Aviv University Between Inter-Generational Justice and the Between Sex Segregation and Race Struggle of Authorities: The Rise and Fall of the Segregation: Insights from American and Israeli Commission for Future Generations in the Knesset Antidiscrimination Doctrines (2001-2010)

(MA:02) Avoda Zara—Migrant Workers in (MA:04) Practicing (Towards) Diversity in Hebrew Literature Israeli Performing Arts CHAIR: ILANA SZOBEL, Brandeis University CHAIR: EDNA NAHSHON, Jewish Theological TECH MODERATOR: YAEL HALEVI-WISE, McGill Seminary University TECH MODERATOR: JACOB HELLMAN, University of Wisconsin–Stout MEI-TAL NADLER, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev SHELLY ZER-ZION, University of Haifa Assemblages of Disasters and the Pirate’s Quest in Practicing Urban Diversity: The Megapolis in the A Woman in Jerusalem by A.B. Yehoshua Hebrew Theatre of the 1930’s Queens College, City University of New ODED NIR, NAPHTALY SHEM-TOV, The Open University of Israel York Ars Poetica: Performing Mizrahi Diverse Poetry Migrant Labor as Content and Migrant Labor as Form in Hebrew Fiction 23 Monday, June 7, 2021

YAIR LIPSHITZ, Tel Aviv University The Women in the Beit-Midrash in the Theatre: (MA:07) Contemporary Issues in Israel’s Gender and the Performance of Study National Security CHAIR: KOBI MICHAEL, Ariel University / INSS DORIT YERUSHALMI, University of Haifa Stop the Performance: The Dynamics of the TECH MODERATOR: RONNIE OLESKER, St. Lawrence Delegitimization and Defunding of Al-Midan, the University Arab Theatre in Haifa EYAL ZISSER, Tel Aviv University Transforming Israel’s Relations with the Arab World (MA:05) Is There a New Quality of Jewish- EYTAN GILBOA, Bar-Ilan University Arab Relations? Berlin and Dubai as Case Studies Sustaining The US-Israel Strategic Cooperation CHAIR: MANSHEETAL SINGH, Charles University YARON SALMAN, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / Zefat Academic College TECH MODERATOR: MENNA ABUKHADRA, Cairo University Changing Israel’s Approach to the United Nations

JOANNA DYDUCH, Jagiellonian University MEIR FINKEL, Tel Aviv University An Impact of Abrahamic Accords on Socio- The Strategy Documents: Knowledge Development Economic Relations between Jews and Arabs Processes in the IDF and the Israeli Society

OLAF GLÖECKNER, University of Potsdam MEIR Y. ELRAN, Tel Aviv University Berlin as a (European) “Urban Laboratory” of Coping with Security Threats to the Home Front in Jewish/Israeli-Arab Encounter Israel

MARCELA MENACHEM ZOUFALA, Charles University (MA:08) Book Roundtable: Anat Stern’s Jewish Community in Dubai: From Combatants on Trial—The Legal System of the Inconspicuousness to High Public Visibility IDF during the 1948 War CHAIR: AYELET HAREL SHALEV, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (MA:06) Roundtable on Mamlakhtiyut and Israeli Attitudes Towards the Jewish TECH MODERATOR: PAULA KABALO, Ben-Gurion Diaspora: Four Perspectives University of the Negev CHAIR: ARIEH SAPOSNIK, Ben-Gurion University of NIR KEDAR, Bar-Ilan University the Negev PNINA LAHAV, Boston University TECH MODERATOR: ORI YEHUDAI, The Ohio State MOSHE NAOR, University of Haifa University ANAT STERN, The Open University of Israel OFER SHIFF, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev AVI BARELI, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (MA:09) Making the City a Home: Immigrants, TALIA GORODESS, Ben-Gurion University of the Residence, and Social Alienation in Tel Aviv, Negev 1920-1948 ADI SHERZER, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem CHAIR: MICHAL KOFMAN, University of Louisville / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev TECH MODERATOR: SHARON YAVO AYALON, Cornell Tech

SIGAL DAVIDI, Independent Scholar Women’s Organizations Build for Marginalized Groups: Homes for Single Women and Elderly New Immigrants in 1930s-1940s Tel Aviv 24 Monday, June 7, 2021

GALIA HASHARONI, University of Haifa The Aged and the City: Aging and Old Age in (MA:12) “On the Director’s Chair Sits a Mandatory Tel Aviv, Based on 1928’s Census Woman”

OR ALEKSANDROWICZ, Technion—Israel Institute CHAIR CINDY STERN, Chicago Festival of Israeli of Technology Cinema Can Jews Living among Arabs become Hebrew? SMADAR ZAMIR, filmmaker The Cultural and Spatial Marginalization of the Jews LIOR ELEFANT, Ben-Gurion, University of the Negev of Manshiya Filmmakers and feminist media activists Smadar Zamir and Lior Elefant in conversation with Cindy Stern about the role of women filmmakers in (MA:10) Israel and Its Palestinian Arab contemporary Israeli cinema. Minority: A Relationship in Flux CHAIR: LIAT STEIR LIVNY, Sapir Academic College TECH MODERATOR: SAWSAN KHEIR, University of SESSION B | 09:30–11:00 CST Haifa / Abo Akademi University

AMAL JAMAL, Tel Aviv University (MB:01) Ethnicity as a Problematic and The Vita Activa of Arab Citizens and the Struggle Unfixed Category for Restructuring Civic Sovereignty in Israel CHAIR: MARGALIT SHILO, Bar-Ilan University RIDA ABU RASS and ODED HAKLAI, Queen’s University TECH MODERATOR: SOPHIA MCGEE, Queens College–CUNY The Fourth Phase of Palestinian Arab Politics in Israel GUY ABUTBUL SELINGER, College of Management ‘Subordinate’ by Choice? Minority Ethnic Identity as OLGA TALAL, Queen’s University Cultural Resource in the Israeli Middle Class Bureaucratic Policy Entrepreneurs: Explaining Variation in Israel’s Treatment of the Palestinian SIGAL NAGAR-RON, Sapir Academic College Arab Minority A Choice of Ignorance? Ethnic Categorization, National Statistics, and Inequality Indicators in Israel (MA:11) Memory and Cultural Representations: Intergenerational Relations BENJAMIN GLADSTONE, New York University in Israeli Poetry, Graphic Novels and Art Theorizing Race and ‘Eidah’ in Yisrael Yesh’ayahu- CHAIR & RESPONDENT: YAEL ZERUBAVEL, Rutgers Shar’abi’s “Tribes and Jewish Ethnic Communities in University the Pot of the Histadrut”

TECH MODERATOR: OFER BERENSTEIN, Independent Scholar (MB:02) Looking Back: Nostalgia among EFRAT BEN-ZE’EV, Ruppin Academic Center and Jewish Immigrants in Israel to their “Old” EDNA LOMSKY-FEDER, The Hebrew University of Homeland Jerusalem CHAIR: YARON AYALON, College of Charleston

The Palmach’s Swansong? Generational Memory TECH MODERATOR: LIAT ALON, University of Illinois as Portrayed through the Media following Haim Urbana-Champaign Gouri’s Death RAKEFET ZALASHIK, Ben-Gurion University of the NA’AMA SHEFFI, Sapir Academic College Negev Memory and Representation of the Holocaust in Nostalgia among Romanian Jewry—a Belated Israeli Graphic Novels Response?

TAL DEKEL, Tel Aviv University VIOLA ALIANOV-RAUTENBERG, University of Haifa Thinking about Memory, Material and Migration Longing for the British: German-Jewish Nostalgia through Israeli Art—The Case of Alina Rom-Cohen for the Mandate 25 Monday, June 7, 2021

ALON TAM, Columbia University Nostalgia: Remembering the Jewish Community in (MB:05) Who Speaks for the Palestinian? Egypt Between Past and Present CHAIR: AMAL JAMAL, Tel Aviv University

MOSHE NAOR, University of Haifa TECH MODERATOR: NABUTO SATO, University of Nostalgia among Iraqi Jews in Israel Illinois Urbana-Champaign GAL AMIR, University of Haifa (MB:03) Pluralizing Marriage: Private Jewish The 1950 Debate over the Marriage Age Law—Who Marriage in Israel from Legal and Socio- Represents “The Arab Woman”? Cultural Perspectives NA’AMA BEN ZE’EV, University of Haifa CHAIR: ELISHEVA ROSMAN-STOLLMAN, Bar-Ilan Palestinian-Arab Lawyers in Political Careers University SHAHAR MARNIN-DISTELFELD and TAL MELER, TECH MODERATOR: TOVA HARTMAN, Ono Academic Zefat Academic College College Rethinking Marriage: Looking at Art Projects of RUTH HALPERIN-KADDARI, Bar-Ilan University Female Graduate Palestinian-Arab Students Non-State Marriages in Israel: A Legal Analysis ORIANA ABBOUD ARMALY and MOSHE SHARABI, OFIRA FUCHS, ELISHEVA ROSMAN-STOLLMAN Yezreel Valley Academic College and RUTH HALPERIN-KADDARI, Bar-Ilan University In The Name of Individualism: Voices of Young Private Jewish Marriage In Israel: Intersections of Women Minority Within The Christian Minority In Gender, Citizenship, and Religion Israel

ANNA PRASHIZKY, Western Galilee College UnOrthodox (Alternative) Wedding Rituals from the (MB:06) Israeli Film in Contemporary Perspective of the Russian-Israeli Generation 1.5 Contexts CHAIR: SHAYNA WEISS, Brandeis University (MB:04) Religion and Spiritualism: TECH MODERATOR: YAEL LEVY, Tel Aviv University / Methodology, Theology and Security Northwestern University CHAIR: GALEET DARDASHTI, University of ANAT TZOM AYALON, Tel Aviv University Pennsylvania Ezrat Nashim—The Feminine Gaze in Israeli TECH MODERATOR: MORDECHAI INBARI, University Documentary Films of North Carolina–Pembroke NAVA DUSHI, Lynn University HILLEL COHEN, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem What Constitutes an Israeli Minor Film? Jews Reading Qur’an in Israel: Between AMANDA BERNSTEIN, The Hebrew University of Intelligence-Gathering and Spiritualism Jerusalem OMRI ASSCHER, Bar-Ilan University Lacking a Birthplace? Israeli Cinema’s Missing Exporting Political Theology to the Diaspora: Voices of Life Before Immigration Translating Rabbi Kook for Modern Orthodox Consumption (MB:07) Translation: Between Jews and Arabs BARBARA MEYER, Tel Aviv University CHAIR: HAMUTAL SEGAL, Kibbutzim College of Diversity and Methodology in Religious Studies Education

TECH MODERATOR: NANCY BERG, Washington University at St. Louis

ALMOG BEHAR, Tel Aviv University Jewish Writers Between Arabic and Hebrew: In Search of Arab-Jewish Modern Literary Form 26 Monday, June 7, 2021

HADAS SHABAT NADIR, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (MB:10) Minority Women in Professional Muselmann / Muzelman: The Arab Jew in Jewish Careers European Literature CHAIR: ESTHER CARMEL-HAKIM, University of Haifa

ARIEL PRIDAN, Yale University TECH MODERATOR: ALEXA LISANTI, Penn State Translation in the Language of Sovereignty: The University Translation of Arab Folk Songs by Nathan Zach and SARAB ABU-RABIA-QUEDER, Ben-Gurion Rashid Hussein University of the Negev The Biopolitics of Declassing Palestinian (MB:08) Both Sides of the Green Line: Professional Women In Israel Identity, Politics and Discourse on the AMALIA SA’AR and HAWAZIN YOUNIS, University Occupied Territories of Haifa CHAIR: REBECCA SHIMONI STOIL, Clemson Diversity Employment and its Discontents: The University Case of Palestinian Career Women in Israel TECH MODERATOR: ALEJANDRO VELA, University of INBAR LIVNAT and MICHAL ALMOG-BAR, The Michigan, Ann Arbor Hebrew University of Jerusalem ELDAD BRIN, Independent Scholar Permeable Boundaries, Internalized Work: The Containment Amid Suspicion: Israeli Authorities Case of Care Work Professionals in Nonprofit and the Israeli Side of Bet Tzafafa, 1949-1967 Organizations in Israel

YOAV KAPSHUK, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee and MICHAEL S. KOCHIN, Tel Aviv University (MB:11) Roundtable on Israeli Foreign Policy The Transformation of Discourse over the Occupied Challenges in 2021 Territories CHAIR: ROBERT FREEDMAN, Johns Hopkins University AMIR REICHER, CUNY Graduate Center Living Without a Banister: On the Desire for TECH MODERATOR: EYTAN GILBOA, Bar-Ilan Grounding among West Bank Outpost Settlers University ILAN PELEG, Lafayette College (MB:09) Gender and Political Culture STEVEN DAVID, Johns Hopkins University PR KUMARASWAMY, Nehru University CHAIR: YAEL ZERUBAVEL, Rutgers University JOSHUA TEITELBAUM, Bar-Ilan University TECH MODERATOR: ROY HOLLER, University of Florida (MB:12) Cultural Program: Yoga with Ariana YULIA SHEVCHENKO, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and EINAT LACHOVER, Sapir Academic Get your AIS started on the right foot, or maybe the College left! Join Ariana for a 30min yoga session. Available “Successful” Identity Transformation: The anytime in our wellness corner. Representation of Post-Soviet Women in the Israeli There are two programs available: Standing Yoga & Women’s Magazine La’isha Chair Yoga KAREN GUY, Shenkar College of Design Access these VOD anytime—enjoy a good stretch The Role of Ideology in Fashion and Clothes: Ata and remember to have fun! and Maskit’s Brand Revival as an Instrument for the Study of Contemporary Zionism BREAK | 11:00–11:30 CST INBAL BEN-ASHER GITLER and EINAT LACHOVER, Sapir Academic College Identity Politics in Israeli Postage Stamps: From Gender and Ethnic Blindness to Pluralistic Commemoration 27 Monday, June 7, 2021

AVIHU SHOSHANA, University of Haifa SESSION C | 11:30–13:00 CST “I Am Blacker than You”: Mizrahism and Ethiopianism in an Educational Boarding School in Israel (MC:00) WELCOME, AWARDS, AND Q&A ROBERT J. JONES, Chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (MD:02) Haredi Pluralism: Social, Political and Environmental Repositioning DARA GOLDMAN, Director of the Program in Jewish Culture & Society, The University of Illinois Urbana- CHAIR & MODERATOR: TANYA ZION-WALDOKS, The Champaign Hebrew University of Jerusalem

YAEL ARONOFF, President of the Association for LIAT DAUDI, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Israel Studies Environmental Awareness among Haredi Women: A RACHEL S. HARRIS, Chair of the 37th Annual AIS Case Study from the City of Bet Shemesh Conference at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign GADI NISSIM, Ruppin Academic Center Three Labor Strategies, Three Ultraorthodox Stances—the Resurgence of Labor among Haredi AIS AWARDS 2020 & 2021 People in Israel

Conversation and Q & A: Israeli Politics and (MD:03) Mizrahi Women: Between Zionism, the US-Israel Relationship Religion and Immigration DANIEL B. SHAPIRO, Former US Ambassador to CHAIR: BAT-ZION ERAQI KLORMAN, The Open Israel University of Israel TAMARA COFMAN WITTES, Senior Fellow at The TECH MODERATOR: LIZY MOSTOWSKI, University of Brookings Institution Illinois Urbana-Champaign

ESTHER MEIR-GLITZENSTEIN, Ben-Gurion University of The Negev SESSION D | 13:00–14:30 CST Nationalism and Gender: Jewish Girls in the Zionist Movement in Iraq, 1942-1951

(MD:01) The Potential of Blackness in Israel: GALEET DARDASHTI, University of Pennsylvania The Case of Ethiopian-Israelis Mizrahi Women & Contemporary Religious Practice in Israel: Progressive, Masorti, or Charedi? CHAIR: URI DORCHIN, University of Colorado– Boulder ANGY COHEN, University of Calgary TECH MODERATOR: YITZHAK KEREM, The Hebrew Beit Midrash Arevot as a Model of Feminist University of Jerusalem Traditionalism: The Political, Social and Ethical Contribution of Mizrahi Women NURIT KIRSH, The Open University of Israel Jewishness, Blackness and Genetic Data Israeli Geneticists and Physicians Tracing the Ancestry of (MD:04) Evolving Political Theologies— Two African Populations Zionism Beyond the Nation State GABRIELLA DJERRAHIAN, Concordia University CHAIR: JOSHUA SHANES, College of Charleston Kinking Race and Blackness in Israel: An Ethnography of Ethiopian Jews

OMER KEYNAN, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Black-Israeli Lives Matter: Online Activism among Young Ethiopian Israelis 28 Monday, June 7, 2021

TECH MODERATOR: CSABA NIKOLENYI, Concordia ASSAF SHELLEG, The Hebrew University University of Jerusalem After Hebrew Culture CEDRIC COHEN-SKALLI, University of Haifa Buber’s Incipient Bi-National View of the Land of Israel and the War Debate with Cohen (MD:07) Tel Aviv: Living, Planning and Filming YIFTACH OFEK, University of Chicago The Idea of a Jewish Society: Yitzhak Baer’s Israel CHAIR: MAOZ AZARYAHU, University of Haifa Among the Nations Reconsidered TECH MODERATOR: VIOLA ALIANOV-RAUTENBERG, University of Haifa DAVID BARAK-GORODETSKY, University of Chicago “Pluralism in Zion”: Reform Political Theology in YAEL ALLWEIL, Technion—Israel Institute of Israel Technology Planning for Female Workers: Sir Patrick Geddes’ 1925 Master Plan for Tel Aviv (MD:05) Using Legal Structures in Empowering Victims IDO ROSEN, Cambridge University CHAIR: GAYLE ZACHMANN, University of Florida Tel Aviv Storeys: Skyscrapers and Heroines in Films About Metropolitan Tel Aviv TECH MODERATOR: TALIA DISKIN, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev MICHAL KOFMAN, University of Louisville The Gendered Aspects of Shared Accommodation IDO SHAHAR and KARIN CARMIT YEFET, University in 1940s Tel Aviv of Haifa Between State and Community: A Comparative Look at Shari’a Courts and Ecclesiastical Courts in (MD:08) Living in Israel’s Periphery: Political, Israel as a Space of Identity and Community Action Social and Security Tensions TALLY KRITZMAN-AMIR, Boston University CHAIR: MORDECHAI INBARI, The University of Flattening the Curve, Constitutional Crisis and North Carolina at Pembroke Immigrants’ Rights Protections: The Case of Israel TECH MODERATOR: REBECCA SHIMONI STOIL, Clemson University. TZIPI YAGELNIK-FRISHTIK, Bar-Ilan University Economic Domestic Violence against Spouses in ORIT ROZIN, Tel Aviv University Private Law, Family Law and Criminal Law “Nikmat Yeled Katan”: Children as Terror Victims in the 1970s

(MD:06) Tracing a History of Hebrew Art and ORI YEHUDAI, The Ohio State University Culture “A Day of Blood and Valor”: Terrorism and Social CHAIR: VERED WEISS, San Francisco State Tensions in 1970s Israel University AMIR GOLDSTEIN, Tel-Hai Academic College TECH MODERATOR: ALEXA LISANTI, Penn State From Reconciliation to Confrontation: Menachem University Begin and the Kibbutz Movement 1968-1981 REUVEN GAFNI, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee (MD:09) From Ideology to Funding: The Hebraizing Sherlock Holmes: From a Literary Shaping of Israeli Education Import to an Ideological Tool CHAIR: DINA ROGINSKY, Yale University NOA AVRON BARAK, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Jewish Art on Jewish Soil? Martin Buber’s Speech in the Fifth Zionist Congress (1901) and the Founding Paradigm of Israeli Art 29 Monday, June 7, 2021

TECH MODERATOR: OLGA GERSHENSON, University TECH MODERATOR & RESPONDENT: GAL ARIELY, of Massachusetts–Amherst Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

RAMI ZEEDAN and RACHEL ELIZABETH HOGAN, JOEL MIGDAL, University of Washington The University of Kansas AMAL JAMAL, Tel Aviv University How Does the Varying Budget Allocated to Arab IAN LUSTICK, University of Pennsylvania and Jewish Systems Impact the Israeli Education System’s Bagrut Exam Results? (MD:12) Documentary Filmmakers Tomer and KFIR GOLD, Tel Aviv University Barak Heymann in Conversation with Dan Amid the Mountain and the Valley Stands Chyutin the Gymnasium: The Establishment of a High School Diploma (Teudat Bagrut) During the Pre- CHAIR: DAN CHYUTIN, Tel Aviv University Independence Period in Israel, 1923-1935 TECH MODERATOR: RINI BHATTACHARYA MEHTA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign TALI TADMOR-SHIMONY, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev TOMER HEYMANN, Director/Producer Wearing Two Hats: Immigrant Teachers in Israel as BARAK HEYMANN, Director/Producer Newcomers and Educators (1949-1966) Documentary filmmakers Tomer and Barak Heymann discuss their significant body of work on (MD:10) Israel-Diaspora and COVID-19: and with minority populations in Israel. Sociological and Educational Aspects Films available in the Film Program include: “Mr. Gaga,” “Lady Kul El-Arab,” and “The Lone CHAIR: SHIRLEY LE PENNE, Cornell University Samaritan.” TECH MODERATOR: DAVID STARR, Brandeis University

AMIR SEGAL, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem SESSION E | 14:30–16:00 CST Transnational Migration and COVID-19: The Case of Jewish Migrants from North America to Israel (ME:01) Roundtable Honoring Joel Migdal LEONARD SAXE, Brandeis University CHAIR: ODED HAKLAI, Queen’s University Jewish Education During Pandemic Times: What is Lost Without Birthright Israel Trips? TECH MODERATOR: NETA OREN, George Mason University DIKLA YOGEV, University of Toronto Haredim and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Israel and YAEL ARONOFF, Michigan State University the US PNINA LAHAV, Boston University MYRON (MIKE) J. ARONOFF, Rutgers University ESRA BAKKALBASIOGLU, Bar-Ilan University / (MD:11) Book Roundtable on Gal Ariely’s Microsoft Israel’s Regime Untangled: Between Democracy and Apartheid (Cambridge MARWA MAZIAD, University of Washington University Press, 2021) JOEL MIGDAL, University of Washington CHAIR: REBECCA KOOK, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (ME:02) Terminology and Activism: Defining Islamophobia, Antisemitism and Antizionism, CHAIR: RACHEL FISH, Foundation to Combat Anti- Semitism

TECH MODERATOR: RAEEFA SHAMS, Academic Engagement Network

EMILY SCHNEIDER, Northern Arizona University Palestine Solidarity Activism among American Jews: The Case of JVP 30 Monday, June 7, 2021

AZIZA KHAZZOOM, Indiana University ASHER LUBOTZKY, Indiana University Coding Schemes for Recognizing Islamophobia and “Don’t Call Us Kushim”: Racialized Experiences and Antisemitism in Speech Political Activism among African Students in Israel in the 1960s JOSHUA SHANES, College of Charleston Rethinking the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism YITZCHAK KEREM, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Limits of Sephardi/Mizrahi Inclusion in Israeli (ME:03) Theatre as Cultural Meeting Point Culture, Education, and Media CHAIR: EDNA NAHSHON, Jewish Theological Seminary (ME:05) WOMEN’S CAUCUS TECH MODERATOR: LINDSEY PULLUM, The Modern CO-CHAIR: VIOLA ALIANOV-RAUTENBERG, College of Design–Ohio University of Haifa

JEROME CHANES, CUNY Graduate Center CO-CHAIR: SHARON YAVO AYALON, Cornell Tech A Stage for Understanding? Israeli Theatre as a Vehicle for Bridging the Gap between Israel and American Jews SESSION F | 16:30–18:00 CST OZ FRANKEL, New School for Social Research American Musicals in 1960s Israel: From West Side Story to Hair (MF:00) Cultural Program: Mira Awad and Guy Mintus in Concert JACOB HELLMAN, University of Wisconsin–Stout Tel-Aviv based Palestinian-Israeli singer, songwriter, Are You an Eve or a Sarah? Performing Jewish actress, and activist for coexistence, Mira Awad’s Female Identity in Hanna Senesh (1958) songs and performances evoke a stunning fusion of Eastern and Western musical traditions.

(ME:04) Blackness and Brownness in Israel Israeli pianist Guy Mintus is a virtuoso performer of traditions ranging from Turkish to Jewish cantorial CHAIR: GABRIELLA DJERRAHIAN, Concordia music. University

TECH MODERATOR: RAPHAEL COHEN-ALMAGOR, University of Hull

MICHAEL MILLER, Polish Academy of Sciences Tiny Steps Toward Peace: The African Hebrew Israelites and the State of Israel screenwriter director and Filmmaker, Mayer Michael 20:00–21:30 18:00–20:00 8June Tuesday Featured Event Featured Michael Mayer Times director Q &AwithHappy Conversation and view Happy Times Studies Studies &Film Middle Eastern Judaic and Professor of Gershenson Olga a conversation withdirector MichaelMayer. located intheExhibitors, thenfollow upwith Watch Happy Times inthefilmprogram, terror at alushHollywood estate. erupts into anightofviolence and A seeminglyfriendlydinnerparty Enjoy ourlate program. night“horror” Times Happy

SESSION A | 08:00–09:30 CST (TA:03) Neoliberalism and the Hi-Tech Nation: The Tension Between Innovation, Nationalism and Colonialism (TA:01) Transgressive Queering in Art, Militarism and Religion CHAIR: JEFFREY R. BROWN, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign CHAIR: YARON PELEG, Cambridge University TECH MODERATOR: GABRIEL MARTIN, University of TECH MODERATOR: CORINNE BLACKMER, Southern Florida Connecticut State University AMIT SHENIAK, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem DOTAN BROM, University of Haifa Israel’s New Urban Hi-Tech Parks: Sites of Putting on a Show—Queer Men and Women in the Innovation, Militarization, and Nationality Israeli Dance World in the Height of Homophobia AREES BISHARA, Tel Aviv University GRACIELA SPECTOR-BITAN, Independent Scholar Between Colonialism and Neoliberalism: The Conversations with God from the Double Margin: Emergence of a New Palestinian Middle Class in the Jewish Orthodox Lesbians and their Internal Labour Market, Hi-tech Field as a Case Study Portrayal of God GUANGMENG CHEN, Sichuan International NIMROD LIN, Heidelberg University Studies University The Cross-Dressing Commando: Masculinity, Israel’s Experience in Building an Innovative Weaponized Queerness and Jewish Identity in Country and Its Enlightenment to China Operation Spring of Youth YANG YANG, Shanghai International University MELISSA WEININGER, Rice University / Cal State China-Israel Relations under the Covid-19 Pandemic Northridge and Biden Administration Drag, Women, and Gender in Hayehudim Baim

(TA:04) Memory Construction of Historical (TA:02) Pre-State Zionism and the Labor and Religious Sites in Israel: Between Movement Pluralism and Majoritarianism CHAIR: REUVEN GAFNI, Kinneret College on the Sea CHAIR: MOSTAFA HUSSEIN, University of Michigan of Galilee TECH MODERATOR: YITZHAK CONFORTI, Bar-Ilan TECH MODERATOR: ANAT STERN, The Open University University of Israel YITZHAK REITER, Ashkelon Academic College EILON SHAMIR, Beit Berl College Constructing Memory of Common Sacred Places in Sirkin and Borochov: Opposing Ways in Socialist Israel: Jerusalem and Nazareth Zionism? AYELET LEVY-REIFER and AVRAHAM (AVI) ALON PAUKER, Beit Berl College SASSON, Ashkelon Academic College Nachman Sirkin and the Pre-State Zionist Labor Language, Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationality in the Movement—The Prophet from America of Socialist Construction of Memory in the City of Yavne Zionism in Palestine

MEIR CHAZAN, Tel Aviv University The Identity of the Fourth Aliya and Zionist Fulfillment in Palestine 33 Tuesday, June 8, 2021

RAFAEL LEWIS, Ashkelon Academic College HADAS COHEN, Ben-Gurion University of the Echoes of War: The Memory of Crusader Battles in Negev/The Hebrew University in Jerusalem Present Landscapes Sex and the City in Berlin: Female Jewish Israeli Immigrants between Heteronormativity and EITAN KLEIN, Ashkelon Academic College Singlehood Cult, Memory and Continuity: Preservation of the Memory of Ancient Rites in the Palestinian INA SCHAUM, Goethe University Frankfurt Traditions Israelis in Love in Contemporary Germany—An Ethnographic Exploration

(TA:05) America and Israel: Thoughts and Policies (TA:07) Valley of Tears—Between the ‘Historical’ and the ‘Televisual’ Event CHAIR: MORDECHAI INBARI, University of North Carolina—Pembroke CHAIR: VICTORIA AARONS, Trinity University

TECH MODERATOR: DAVID BARAK-GORODETSKY, TECH MODERATOR: MIRI TALMON, Tel Aviv University of Chicago University

BRIAN HOROWITZ, Tulane University DAN ARAV, The College of Management Academic Vladimir Jabotinsky on Oppression in the American Studies / Tel Aviv University South: What Does it Mean for His Iron Wall? Sh’at Neila: Between Reenacting and Branding

RAPHAEL COHEN-ALMAGOR, University of Hull ORNA LAVY-FLINT, Independent Scholar Bonding: American Relationships with Israel 1956- Soldiers versus the State: A History of 2000 Abandonment (in Three Television Series)

EYTAN GILBOA, Bar-Ilan University DANA MASAD, The Open University of Israel What Americans Think about Israel? Long-Term Panthers and Dissidents: Structuring the Trends and Socio-Demographics Representation of the ‘Black Panthers’ as ‘Underground’ Representation in Valley of Tears ZIV RUBINOVITZ, University of Haifa The Geopolitics of the US Middle East Policy in Turbulent Times: How Does Israel Fit in? (TA:08) Jews, Muslims and Christians: At Work and at Leisure AMIR SEGAL, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem CHAIR: VIRGINIA DOMINGUEZ, University of Illinois Transnational Migrants Encounter the Workplace: Urbana-Champaign The Case of Jewish Migrants from North America to Israel TECH MODERATOR: OFIRA FUCHS, Bar-Ilan University

(TA:06) Gender and Migration: Israelis MOSHE SHARABI, ORIANA ABBOUD ARMALY and Between Love and Agency in Contemporary GALIT YANAY-VENTURA, Yezreel Valley Academic Germany College Work and its Meaning Among Jews, Muslims and CHAIR: VIOLA ALIANOV-RAUTENBERG, University Christians in Israel of Haifa

TECH MODERATOR: INBAL BEN-ASHER GITLER, GALIT YANAY-VENTURA, YASMIN ABOUD-HALABI Sapir Academic College and MOSHE SHARABI, Yezreel Valley Academic College DANI KRANZ, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / The Public Sphere and Social Participation: Jews Two Foxes Consulting and Arabs in the Rural Civic Space in Israel Gender, Migration, Wishes and Expectations: Aspects of Gendering Israeli Migration to Germany ANAT KIDRON, Tel-Hai Academic College From a Mosaic of Communities to an Imaginary Regional Community: The Golan Trail as a Means of Creating a Unified ‘Sense of Place’ in Politically Contested Land 34 Tuesday, June 8, 2021

ELIE PODEH, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (TA:09) What Women Want? Women The Role of Arab Mediators in the Arab/Palestinian- Candidates and Members of Knesset: Israeli Conflict Agendas and Politics LIOR LEHRS, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem CHAIR: DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE, Smith College Give Peace a Plan: The Clinton Parameters and TECH MODERATOR: BARBARA MEYER, Tel Aviv Peace Plans as Diplomatic Tools and Textual Agents University in Conflict Areas MARGALIT SHILO, Bar-Ilan University The Feminist Agenda of the Female Members of the (TA:12) Filmmakers Elad and Esti Almo First Israeli Knesset Wexler in Conversation with Shayna Weiss LILACH ROSENBERG-FRIEDMAN, Bar-Ilan CHAIR: SHAYNA WEISS, Brandeis University University ESTI ALMO WEXLER, Writer/Director Gender Paradoxes: The Case of the Religious Women’s Party in the First Knesset Elections ELAD WEXLER, Producer/Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ELISHEVA ROSMAN-STOLLMAN, Bar-Ilan University Filmmakers Elad and Esti Wexler discuss their Religious Female MKs and Their Role in Mikveh newest film “Lady Titi,” available in the conference Policymaking: The Cases of Unsupervised Film Program. Immersion and Covid19 Join for live conversation and Q&A discussing the NAAMA TEITLBAUM-KARRIE, Jewish Theological work and journey of the first female Ethiopian Seminary filmmaker in Israel. The Feminist Agenda of Esther Raziel-Naor

SESSION B | 09:30–11:00 CST (TA:10) A Quarter of a Century of Israel Studies: Perspectives from Journal Editors CHAIR: NATAN ARIDAN, Ben-Gurion University of (TB:01) Druze, Multiculturalism and National the Negev Participation TECH MODERATOR: ADIA MENDELSON-MAOZ, The CHAIR: NOHAD ALI, Technion—Israel Institute of Open University of Israel Technology

AVIVA HALAMISH, The Open University of Israel TECH MODERATOR: HADAS COHEN, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev/The Hebrew University of ILAN TROEN, Brandeis University / Ben-Gurion Jerusalem University of the Negev ANITA SHAPIRA, Tel Aviv University SAWSAN KHEIR, University of Haifa / Abo Akademi PAUL SCHAM, University of Maryland University AVI BARELI, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Effects of Israeli Multiculturalism on the Religiosities of Minority Students: Emerging Secularism among Muslim and Druze Young Adults (TA:11) The Role of Third Parties and LINDSEY PULLUM, The Modern College of Design– Mediators in the Israeli-Arab Conflict Ohio CHAIR: GALIA GOLAN, The Hebrew University of Cooking Up Inclusion: Israeli Druze Women, Jerusalem Culinary Militarism, and National Recognition TECH MODERATOR: STEVEN DAVID, Johns Hopkins ODLOVÁ MARKÉTA, Trinity College Dublin University The Israeli Druze: Military Service as a Tool to LESLEY TERRIS, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Influence Domestic and Foreign Policy The Paradoxical Impact of Mediators in the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict 35 Tuesday, June 8, 2021

(TB:02) Jerusalem: War, Culture and the Built (TB:05) Soft Power, Diplomacy, and Environment International Relations CHAIR: SHARON YAVO-AYALON, Cornell Tech CHAIR: SONJA WENTLING, Concordia College

TECH MODERATOR: MICHAL KOFMAN, University of TECH MODERATOR: UMUT UZER, Istanbul Technical Louisville University

KOBI COHEN-HATTAB, Bar-Ilan University GEOFFREY LEVIN, Emory University Jerusalem Inside a Museum? The Tower of David Blaustein, Ben-Gurion…and Sayegh? The Lost Museum and the Dilemmas Behind It, 1967-1989 “Palestinian Chapter” of Blaustein-Ben-Gurion

YEHOTAL SHAPIRA, Technion—Israel Institute of JASON SILVERMAN and REMI DANIEL, The Hebrew Technology University of Jerusalem Jacob’s Dream and Jewish Messianic Construction The Invisible Hand: Israel’s Covert Activity Attitudes: Contemporary Architecture in the Holy to Protect the Rights of the Turkish-Jewish Basin Community

ELAD NEEMANI, The Open University of Israel MIRA YUNGMAN, The Open University of Israel Between Cooperation, Role Expansion, and Military American Zionist Organizations’ Response to the Intervention: The Hebrew University and the IDF Holocaust—A Gender Perspective during the First Decade YAEL GUILAT, Oranim Academic College of Education (TB:03) Palestinian and Arabic Language A Visual Culture Examination of the Unsolved Presence in the University Classroom Terrorist Attack Against Argentinian Jewry and its Implications for Israel–Argentinian Jewry Relations CHAIR & MODERATOR: OLGA GERSHENSON, University of Massachusetts–Amherst

DINA ROGINSKY, Yale University (TB:06) Israel and the Politics of Middle Eastern Minorities Hebrew and Arabic in Dialogue: A Pioneering Course in Higher Education CHAIR & DISCUSSANT: BRUCE MADDY-WEITZMAN, Tel Aviv University BARAAH ABED ELHAI, Bar-Ilan University TECH MODERATOR: OLGA TALAL, Queen’s University Palestinian Silence in the Israeli University Classroom ROMAN VATER, University of Cambridge The “Levant Club”: A Hebrew-Maronite Joint Initiative in the United States (TB:04) Multicultural Israel: As Seen on TV (A) AYELET LEVY, Tel Aviv University CHAIR: MIRI TALMON, Tel Aviv University Ethno-Cultural Pluralism in Morocco and Israel

TECH MODERATOR: GILAD GREENWALD, Bar-Ilan AMNON ARAN, City University of London University Lessons from Lebanon: Israel-Minority Relations ALON JUDKOVSKY, Tel Aviv University and the Syrian Civil War Who is ‘Welcome to Live Freely’? The Clash JOHANNES BECKE, Heidelberg Center for Jewish between Multiculturalism and Gentrification in the Studies Television Drama “Florentine” Gathering the Dispersed: State Evasion and State YAEL MUNK, The Open University of Israel Formation in Modern Jewish, Kurdish, and Berber History The Wives: Khatufim, Its Female Protagonists, and the Israeli Discourse of War

ANAT Y. ZANGER, Tel Aviv University Minorities, the Body and Violence on Israeli Television: The Television Drama “Our Boys” 36 Tuesday, June 8, 2021

OFIR HADAD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (TB:07) Book Roundtable: Oxford Handbook Liminal Security Discourse and Immigration on Israeli Politics and Society Policymaking: The Israeli Policy Toward High-Level CHAIR: MENACHEM HOFNUNG, Hebrew University Palestinian Collaborators of Jerusalem ELIE FRIEDMAN, Ashkelon Academic College TECH MODERATOR: HAVATZELET YAHEL, Ben- The Dialectics of the Securitization and Gurion University of the Negev Desecuritization of African Asylum Seekers Discourse in Israel YAEL ARONOFF, Michigan State University REUVEN HAZAN, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (TB:10) Defining Gender Rights and Identities ALAN DOWTY, University of Notre Dame CHAIR: RONIT IRSHAI, Bar-Ilan University GIDEON RAHAT, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem TECH MODERATOR: MELISSA WEININGER, Rice University / Cal State Northridge MIRA SUCHAROV, Carleton University REUT ITZKOVITCH MALKA, The Open University of GILLY HARTAL and SHANY KRAUZ, Bar-Ilan Israel University Homonormative Political Subjectivities: Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Women’s Negotiation (TB:08) Jewish Identity outside the Strategies in the Israeli Peripheries Rabbanut’s Reach IDIT RAN, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology CHAIR: SARAH IMHOFF, Indiana University “A Place Where you Cannot Walk Without a TECH MODERATOR: JENNIFER A. THOMPSON, Cal Bra”—Kibbutz Women, Social Control and Spatial State Northridge Experience

TIMEA CROFONY, Charles University GILI HAMMER, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Bridging Hybridity: The Complex Nature of Secular Gender at my Fingertips: Blindness and the Jewish Identity and its Theoretical Framing Formation of Gender Identity EINAT LIBEL HASS, Bar-Ilan University An Alliance of the Marginalized: Israeli Reform (TB:11) Zionist Historiography: Between Conversion, Identity Construction and Belonging Emotion and Narrative STEPHANIE COLLEY, University of Haifa CHAIR: NAHUM KARLINSKY, Ben-Gurion University Understanding the Lived Experiences of Native of the Negev Israeli Jewish Believers in Yeshua: A Lesser-Known TECH MODERATOR: ALEJANDRO VELA, University of Subgroup within Israel’s Diverse Society Michigan Ann Arbor

MATAN BOORD, Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi Institute (TB:09) Immigration and Security Discourses: The History of Emotions in Zionist and Israeli A Threat Within Historiography CHAIR: GALIA GOLAN, The Hebrew University of ARIEH SAPOSNIK, Ben-Gurion University of the Jerusalem Negev TECH MODERATOR: ARI ARIEL, University of Iowa Zionism’s Redemptive Narratives and Narrative Redemptions AYELET HAREL SHALEV and REBECCA KOOK, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ANNA BAND, University of Chicago Ontological (In)Security and the Protection of Berlin in Haifa—Haifa in Berlin: The Pension Struck Women as a Zionist Space of Belonging 37 Tuesday, June 8, 2021

(TB:12) Cultural Program: Yoga with Ariana (TD:02) Militarism: Changing Perspectives, Get your AIS started on the right foot, or maybe the Changing Expectations left! Join Ariana for a 30min yoga session. Available CHAIR: TALLY KRITZMAN-AMIR, Harvard University anytime in our wellness corner. TECH MODERATOR: STEPHANIE COLLEY, Haifa There are two programs available: Standing Yoga & University Chair Yoga LIOR YOHANANI, Rutgers University Access these VOD anytime—enjoy a good stretch Soldiering Their Way in: Foreign Recruits, Voluntary and remember to have fun! Enlistment, and National Belonging in Israel

IDO YAHEL, Tel Aviv University SESSION C | 11:00–13:00 CST Umbrella Insurgent Organizations and their Impact on the Battlefield: Comparing the Palestine Liberation Organization with the Jewish Resistance (TC:00) AIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY Movement CHAIR: YAEL ARONOFF, AIS President, Michigan RUTH CARMI, University of Notre Dame State University The Myopia of Gender vs. Religion—Women’s TECH MODERATOR: ASAF SHAMIS, University of Exclusion in the Israeli Army and Women of the Haifa Wall as a Case Study

(TD:03) Book Roundtable on Ian Lustick’s SESSION D | 13:00–14:30 CST Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) (TD:01) Ethiopians: Immigration to Exodus CHAIR: ILAN PELEG, Lafayette College CHAIR: SARAB ABU-RABIA-QUEDER, Ben-Gurion TECH MODERATOR: SHIMSHON (IGNAT) University of the Negev AYZENBERG, San Jose State University TECH MODERATOR: GABRIEL MARTIN, University of Florida RACHEL FISH, Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism ODED HAKLAI, Queen’s University LOUISE FISCHER, Israel State Archives MIRA SUCHAROV, Carleton University Leaving No Stone Unturned? The Israeli MENACHEM KLEIN, Bar-Ilan University Government and Immigration from Ethiopia, 1984- 1973 AMAL JAMAL, Tel Aviv University

MARVA SHALEV MAROM, Stanford University RESPONDENT: IAN LUSTICK, University of Pennsylvania A Second Exodus: Ethiopian Jews in Israel Between Religion, Nation and State

EINAT LACHOVER, Sapir Academic College (TD:04) Religion and Feminism: New Directions The Work Experience of Black Ethiopian Women Journalists in Israel CHAIR: MICHAL RAUCHER, Rutgers University

TECH MODERATOR: LIZY MOSTOWSKI, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

TANYA ZION-WALDOKS, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rethinking “Religious Feminism” Through Intersectionality: How Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Feminists in Israel Transform Themselves, Haredi Society, and Feminisms 38 Tuesday, June 8, 2021

MORIA RAN BEN-HAI, Brandeis University “Out of Scholarship will Emerge Leadership.”: (TD:07) Israel and Democracy: A Shifting Kolach Forum as a Catalyst for Religious Women Foundation Scholarship in Israel CHAIR: ILAN BEN-AMI, The Open University of Israel

NAHED ASHQAR SHARARY, Ben-Gurion University TECH MODERATOR: DIKLA YOGEV, University of of the Negev and MORIA RAN BEN-HAI, Brandeis Toronto University PAZ CARMEL, David Yellin College of Education / Nisweya Islameya And Jewish Modern Orthodox Bar-Ilan University Feminist Scholarship In Israel Jewish and Democratic—What do Civic Books Say?

NETA OREN, George Mason University and DOV (TD:05) The State Through Religious Eyes: WAXMAN, UCLA Negotiating Religion and Nationalism Populism, Polarization and Erosion of Democracy: CHAIR: EUGENE AVRUTIN, University of Illinois Israel’s Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Urbana-Champaign Perspective TECH MODERATOR: MICHEL GHERMAN, ALON HELLED, Università Degli Studi Di Firenze Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro The Ever-changing Dynamics of Nation-State, NEHEMIA STERN, Ariel University Identity, Sovereignty and Diversity in Contemporary Military Virtue and Personal Piety: The Mesillat Israel Yesharim in Israeli Religious Nationalist Thought ILANA KAUFMAN, The Open University of Israel ARI MOSHKOVSKI, Brandeis University National Conflict and the Quality of Israeli “I Try To Be a Realist According to My Worldview:” Democracy: The Precarious Status of the Arab- The Religious-Political Thought and Practice of Palestinian Political Parties Yosef Burg

LILACH BEN ZVI, University of Haifa (TD:08) Urban Planning: Art, Politics and An Eternal Struggle of Values—Multiculturalism vs. Technology Leibowitzian Thought CHAIR: ROY HOLLER, University of Florida

TECH MODERATOR: SUSAN CHEVLOWE, Derfner (TD:06) Culture: A Victim of Politics? Judaic Museum CHAIR: DARA GOLDMAN, University of Illinois NADAV HEIDECKER, University of Haifa Urbana-Champaign The Making of a Mixed Municipality in Israel: The TECH MODERATOR: GAYLE ZACHMANN, University Case of Acre of Florida LIHI LAHAT, and REGEV NATHANSOHN, Sapir MIRIAM SHENKAR, The Ohio State University Academic College The Story of a WWII Rescuer in Hungary, Explaining Can Distrust Lead to Citizens’ Involvement in Smart the Complexity of Holocaust Era Political Alliances Cities? The Israeli Case of a Neighborhood in Haifa

ELI SPERLING, Emory University SHARON YAVO-AYALON, Cornell Tech Is the Fear of Brain Drain Justified? Elite Israeli Jazz A Portrait of a City through the Portrait of its Musicians in The United States People—Giving Room for Diversity and Plural Identities in Project Ashdod AMIR LOCKER-BILETZKI, Independent Scholar, and JASMIN HABIB, University of Waterloo La Familia and the Israeli Far Right 39 Tuesday, June 8, 2021

AVIAD MORENO, Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study (TD:09) Roundtable and Memorial Session in of Israel & Zionism Honor of Rachel Brenner z”l Protest and Solidarity: Israel’s Black Panthers from CHAIR: PNINA LAHAV, Boston University a Transnational MENA Jewish Viewpoint

TECH MODERATOR: SOFIA MCGEE, University of DARIO MICCOLI, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Florida “Gardens of Hope”: Class, Memory and the Mizrahi Literary Imagination AVIVA HALAMISH, The Open University of Israel ALAN DOWTY, University of Notre Dame NADAV SHELEF, University of Wisconsin (TD:12) Roundtable on Israeli Cinema and HANNA HERZOG, Tel Aviv University Television: Beyond the National PHYLLIS LASSNER, Northwestern University CHAIR: DAN CHYUTIN, Tel Aviv University

YAEL ZERUBAVEL, Rutgers University TECH MODERATOR: YUVAL GOZANSKY, Sapir Academic College

(TD:10) Political Activism and Political RACHEL S. HARRIS, University of Illinois Urbana- Protest: Witnessing Violence in Person and in Champaign Poetry BOAZ HAGIN, Tel Aviv University CHAIR: NANCY BERG, University of Washington–St. NAVA DUSHI, Lynn University Louis SHAYNA WEISS, Brandeis University TECH MODERATOR: VERED WEISS, San Francisco State University SESSION E | 14:30–16:00 CST AMIR SEGAL, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Political and Protest Poetry in Israel in the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (TE:01) Roundtable on Zionism, Antisemitism EMILY SCHNEIDER, Northern Arizona University and Free Speech on Campus: Challenges for US Academia Competing Indigeneities: Preserving Liberal Zionism through Witnessing Settler Violence in CHAIR: RAEEFA SHAMS, Academic Engagement Hebron Network

LIVNAT KONOPNY-DECLEVE, Tel Aviv University TECH MODERATOR: JOSHUA SHANES, University of Charleston Crossing the Lines of Fear: Jewish Left-Wing Activist Women in Palestine CORINNE BLACKMER, Southern Connecticut State University DAVID SCHRAUB, University of California at (TD:11) Class in Transition Between MENA Berkeley Jews and Mizrahim in Israel RACHEL FISH, Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism CHAIR: DEBORAH BERNSTEIN, University of Haifa DOV WAXMAN, UCLA TECH MODERATOR: AZIZA KHAZZOOM, Indiana MIRIAM ELMAN, Academic Engagement Network / University Syracuse University ALON TAM, Columbia University Toward a History of Egyptian Jews and Palestine/ Israel Before 1948

LIAT ALON, The University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign Class in Transition: Middle Class Identity in Twentieth Century Egypt and its Role in the Integration of Egyptian Jews into Israeli Society after 1948 40 Tuesday, June 8, 2021

(TE:02) American Political Science (TE:05) Gendering the Hospital: Association Roundtable: US-Israel Relations Reproduction, Sexuality, and Disability in a Post-Trump Era CHAIR: NILI R. BROYER, The Hebrew University of APSA-SPONSORED EVENT Jerusalem

CHAIR: ODED HAKLAI, Queen’s University TECH MODERATOR: GILA SILVERMAN, Case Western University TECH MODERATOR: NADAV SHELEF, University of Wisconsin OSNAT YEHEZKEL-LAHAT, Independent Scholar YAEL ARONOFF, Michigan State University “I am Asking the Doctor to Help Me Put on My Trousers”: The Gynecological Chair as a Domain of ROBERT FREEDMAN, Johns Hopkins University Struggle SCOTT LASENSKY, University of Maryland / INSS JONATHAN RYNHOLD, Bar-Ilan University ILANA SZOBEL, Brandeis University Disability and Gender-Based Violence in Israeli War Literature (TE:03) Book Roundtable on Mira Sucharov’s Borders and Belonging: A Memoir SLAVA GREENBERG, University of Southern California CHAIR & RESPONDENT: MIRA SUCHAROV, Carleton Preserving Ability: Saving Trans Kids from Disability University in Hospital Drama Documentary TECH MODERATOR: SHEILA JELEN, University of Kentucky (TE:06) Parliamentary Politics in Times EHUD EIRAN, University of Haifa / Stanford of Pandemic: The Knesset in Comparative University Perspective ODED LOWENHEIM, The Hebrew University of CHAIR: RON HASSNER, University of California– Jerusalem Berkeley BRENT SASLEY, University of Texas at Arlington TECH MODERATOR: LIOR YOHANINI, Rutgers EMILY SCHNEIDER, Northern Arizona University University

ITTAI BAR SIMAN TOV, Bar-Ilan University (TE:04) A One-State Reality? State and Temporary Legislation in Times of Covid-19: The Regime in Israel-Palestine Israeli Case CHAIR: REBECCA KOOK, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev SVEN SIEFKEN, Martin-Luther Universitat Halle- Wittenberg TECH MODERATOR: AMIR REICHER, CUNY Graduate Riding the Waves? Institutional Learning of the Center Bundestag During the Covid-19 Pandemic IAN LUSTICK, University of Pennsylvania ANNE MARIE CAMMISA, Georgetown University Thinking about State Demise: The Case of Israel Polarization in Pandemic: The United States OREN YIFTACHEL, Ben-Gurion University of the Congress and COVID-19 Negev CSABA NIKOLENYI, Concordia University Interregnum? The Pangs of Regime Transformation Parliamentary Opposition and the Covid-19 in Israel/Palestine Pandemic AMAL JAMAL, Tel Aviv University The Political Imaginary of State Demise: Israel and Its Palestinian Predicament

URIEL ABULOF, Tel Aviv University The Two-State Fear: Anxiety and Angst in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

RESPONDENT: AS’AD GHANEM, University of Haifa 41 Tuesday, June 8, 2021

(TE:07) Reckoning with Plurality: BREAK: FILM VIEWING | 18:00–20:00 CST Intersubjective Transformations in Israeli Contemporary Dance CHAIR: JAN ERKERT, University of Illinois Urbana- SESSION G | 20:00–21:30 CST Champaign

TECH MODERATOR: MARTIN B SHICHTMAN, University of Eastern Michigan (TG:00) Cultural Program: Q&A with Filmmaker Michael Mayer and Olga HANNAH KOSSTRIN, The Ohio State University Gershenson Choreographing Pluralism: Israeli Dances in CHAIR: OLGA GERSHENSON, University of Transnational Circulation Massachusetts–Amherst

SHIRA EVIATAR, Israeli Choreographers Association MICHAEL MAYER, Writer/Director Cultivating the Collective Self: Critical Inheritance An evening with filmmaker Michael Mayer and the Mizrahi/Arab Jewish Body for the Present discussing his newest film “Happy Times” with Olga Gershenson. This satire of the Israeli ex-pat MELISSA MELPIGNANO, The University of Texas at El Paso community in the US is available in the conference Film Program. Reckoning with the Legacy of Zionism: Choreographic Practices of Solidarity

BREAK | 16:00–16:30 CST

SESSION F | 16:30–18:00 CST

(TF:00) KEYNOTE: Covid, Israel and the Politics of Infrastructure

DANY BAHAR, The Brookings Institution Sponsored by The Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern

CHAIR: DARA GOLDMAN, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

TECH MODERATOR: DANA RABIN, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

RESPONDENT: REBECCA SMITH, University of Illinois Featured Event Omri Drumlevich

Wednesday 9 June 9:30–11:00 Omri Drumlevich in Conversation with Jan Erkert 14:30–16:00 Dance Party/Workshop with dancer Omri Drumlevich Film Program Dance Shorts

Dancer Choreographer

Director FILM SHORT: January Red

FILM SHORT: Far 43 Wednesday, June 9, 2021

SESSION A | 08:00–09:30 CST (WA:03) First-Generation Higher Education Students in Israeli Academia—Mizrahim, Palestinians, and Haredi Women (WA:01) Multicultural Israel: As Seen on TV (B) CHAIR: HANNA HERZOG, Tel Aviv University TECH MODERATOR: LIHI LAHAT, Sapir Academic CHAIR: YAEL LEVY, Tel Aviv University / Northwestern University College

TECH MODERATOR: AMANDA BERNSTEIN, The EFRAT BEN-SHOSHAN GAZIT, Tel Aviv University Hebrew University of Jerusalem First-Generation Mizrahi Women in Academia from Diversity to Intersectionality GABRIELA JONAS AHARONI, Sapir Academic College AREES BISHARA, Tel Aviv University Ethnicity and Mizrahiut in Contemporary Israeli Palestinian First-Generation Higher Education Serial Television Drama Students in Israeli Academia—Dilemmas of Identity in the Academic Sphere SHIRI GOREN, Yale University Remember Them All: Reimagining Collective ESTEE RIEDER-INDURSKY, Tel Aviv University Memory in Sayed Kashua’s Israeli Sitcom “Arab Between Two Worlds—Being Ultra-Orthodox in Labor” Secular Academia MIRI TALMON, Tel Aviv University Identity Begins at Home: “Shtisel” and the (WA:04) American Jewry, the Israeli Labor Discourse of Authenticity Movement and the Debate Over the Meaning of Zionism in the 1950s

(WA:02) New Perspectives on Israel National CHAIR: RACHEL ROJANSKI, Brown University Trail (Shvil Israel), TECH MODERATOR: BRIAN HOROWITZ, Tulane University CHAIR: SUSAN WEINGER, Western Michigan University ZOHAR SEGEV, University of Haifa TECH MODERATOR: EYTAN GILBOA, Bar-Ilan Israel and the Jewish Diaspora after the University Establishment of the State: The American Jewish Perspective SHAY RABINEAU, Binghamton University Hiking Trails in Israel: New Directions for Research AVIVA HALAMISH, The Open University of Israel Reconciling Negation of Exile with Relying on ASSAF SELZER and DANIEL VAKNIN, University of American Jewry: A View from the Left Haifa Hikers on Israel’s National Trail: with Ardor but TAL ELMALIACH, University of Haifa Scant Knowledge of the Land Beyond Mamlachtiut and Halutziut: The Ben- Gurion–Blaustein understanding in light of Ben- HAVATZELET YAHEL, EMIR GALILEE and RACHEL Gurion’s theory of Revolution KATUSHEVSKY, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev In-Formal Planning: Israel National Trail as a Case Study 44 Wednesday, June 9, 2021

(WA:05) Women as Public Voice: Golda Meir, (WA:07) Zionism: Negotiating the Female Diplomats and Feminist Struggles for Practicalities of its Early Ideology Equality CHAIR: DAVID STARR, Brandeis University CHAIR: PAULA KABALO, Ben-Gurion University of TECH MODERATOR: JAVIER SIMONOVICH, Yezreel the Negev Academic College TECH MODERATOR: VICTORIA AARONS, Trinity University ASAF SHAMIS, University of Haifa Rethinking the Role of Farming Hand Tools in NATAN ARIDAN, Ben-Gurion University of the Second Aliyah Labor Ideology Negev The Contribution of Female Diplomats and SHIMSHON (IGNAT) AYZENBERG, San Jose State ‘Significant Others’ to Israeli Diplomacy in the Early University Years The Cult of Borokhov in Early Soviet Russia

GILAD GREENWALD, Bar-Ilan University YITZHAK CONFORTI, Bar-Ilan University The Gender Aspect in Golda Meir’s Political Career: Zionism and the Hebrew Bible An Analysis through ‘This is Your Life’ TV series

ROI IRANI, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (WA:08) Zionisms in the Global South: Non- “Your Fate is in Your Hands”: The Beginning of the Jewish Perspectives (A) Feminist Struggle for Equality on the Basketball CHAIR: MICHEL GHERMAN, Universidade Federal do Court in Israel Rio de Janeiro

TECH MODERATOR: GABRIEL MARTIN, University of (WA:06) The Politics of International Trade Florida Networks: From the Local to the Global PAUL FRESTON, Wilfred Laurier University, Canada CHAIR: UMUT UZER, Istanbul Technical University Varieties of Christian Zionism: A Long History & TECH MODERATOR: EHUD GOLAN, Bar-Ilan Near Global Contemporary Reach University MARIAM GOSHADZE, The Hebrew University of IAN MCGONIGLE, Nanyang Technological University Jerusalem “Again You Will Plant Vineyards in the Hills of We Came from Israel: Visions of Shared History Samaria”: Winemaking and Prophecy in the behind the Ga Story of Origin Contested Territories of Israel/Palestine RODRIGO TONIOL, Universidade Federal Do Rio De ELAI RETTIG, Washington University–St. Louis and Janeiro ZIV RUBINOVITZ, University of Haifa Brazilian Far Right Politics, Jews and Zionism: A Small-State Oil Trade as a Ticket into New Regional Process of Political Conversion Networks: Israel’s Quest for Oil in South America and the North Sea (WA:09) Ethnic Discourse and Political Roles REUT REINA BENDRIHEM, Technion—Israel Institute in a Democratic Nation State of Technology CHAIR: MOSTAFA HUSSEIN, University of Michigan Development, Entrepreneurship, and Urban Space— The Case of “Sfat Midbar” TECH MODERATOR: PNINA ABIR-AM, Brandeis University

MOSHE SHARABI, ORIANA ABBOUD ARMALY, ILAN SHDEMA and GALIT YANAY-VENTURA, Yezreel Valley Academic College Ethnicity and Non-Financial Employment Commitment: Examination of Core-Periphery Model on Majority and Minority Groups in Israel 45 Wednesday, June 9, 2021

ANNA BAGAINI, University of Nottingham Ethnic Democracy and Arab Parties in Israel: (WA:12) Cultural Program: In Conversation Analysis of the Party System and Implications on with Mira Awad the Democratic Backsliding Process CHAIR: LUISA-ELENA DELGADO, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign MARTA BURGOS, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Divergent Voices in Israel TECH MODERATOR: RACHEL S. HARRIS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

MIRA AWAD, Musician/Screenwriter (WA:10) Women in the IDF—Dialogue Among Scholars Following Book Publications Join in this live conversation with the renowned musician, screenwriter and television star, Mira CHAIR: ANAT STERN, The Open University of Israel Awad. Watch her recent television series—MUNA—in TECH MODERATOR: GALIA GOLAN, The Hebrew the conference Film Program. University of Jerusalem

EDNA LOMSKY-FEDER, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem SESSION B | 09:30–11:00 CST ORNA SASSON-LEVY, Bar-Ilan University SHIR DAPHNA-TEKOAH, Ashkelon Academic College (WB:01) Unknown: Diaspora Communities in Israel AYELET HAREL SHALEV, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev CHAIR: LIAT ALON, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign

TECH MODERATOR: ALEJANDRO VELA, University of (WA:11) Holy Time, Holy People: Negotiating Michigan, Ann Arbor Religious Identity and Practice in a Secular State ELIZAVETA IAKIMOVA, Russian Academy of Science CHAIR: DAVID ELLENSON, Hebrew Union College / Feminist and Women Movement among Emigrants Brandeis University from Azerbaijan in Israel

TECH MODERATOR: OMRI ASSCHER, Bar-Ilan RUTI GLICK, Bar-Ilan University University “As if I Don’t Exist at All:” Hungarian-Speaking Immigrants Confronting the Hebraization Project of STAV SHUFAN, Bar-Ilan University the 1950s The Impact of Holy Time on the Expressions of Religious Pluralism in Israel SURAJ RAJAN K, O.P. Jindal Global University The Indian Jewish Diaspora in Israel—from Being HINANIT STRICK, Bar-Ilan University Forgotten to Being Remembered Was it Pluralism and Mutual Respect or Conflict, that Typified Sabbath Observance at the Time of SUMANA SINGHA, Jawaharlal Nehru University the Mandate? The Kurdish Jews of Israel: Ethnic Identities, Political Activism and the Kurdish Question JANET COHEN, Zefat Academic College “We Don’t See our Past as a Mistake:” Mechanisms that Shape the Religious Identity of an Israeli Place- (WB:02) Echoes of the Holocaust as a Force Based Community of Baalei Teshuva in Israeli Politics, Militarism and Culture CHAIR: ALEXIS POGORELSKIN, University of Minnesota–Duluth

TECH MODERATOR: IDO YAHEL, Tel Aviv University

LIAT STEIR LIVNY, The Open University of Israel / Sapir Academic College A Chain of Female Justice in the Israeli Documentary “Oy Mama” (Noa Maiman, 2010) 46 Wednesday, June 9, 2021

SHEILA JELEN, University of Kentucky Bearers of Arms: Israeli Women Fighters’ Holocaust (WB:05) Literature and Identity Testimonies Outside the Limelight CHAIR: DANA RABIN, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign OFER SHINAR LEVANON, Ruppin Academic College Under a Constant Shadow: The Israeli-Palestinian TECH MODERATOR: SOPHIA MCGEE, Queens Conflict and the Traumatic Memory of the College–CUNY Holocaust OSHRAT REVIVO, Tel Aviv University GIORA GOODMAN, Kinneret College on The Sea of Marginalized Children in Children’s Literature, A Galilee Case Study: The Mizrahi Character in Illustrations Kirk Douglas at Iqrit: Holocaust and Nakba in from the Story “To Myself” by Galila Ron-Feder- Hollywood’s The Juggler (1953) Amit OFER BERENSTEIN, Independent Scholar (WB:03) Roundtable: New Research Agendas Tokenism, Character Diversity, and the in the Study of Israeli-Palestinian Relations Diversification of Creation in Israeli Comics: Bridging and Fragmenting of the Israeli Social CHAIR: DOV WAXMAN, UCLA Landscapes and the Notions of National Identity TECH MODERATOR: KATHERINE HARBORD, TALIA DISKIN, Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Liverpool John Moores University Study of Israel & Zionism and AYELET GIL RONEN, NADAV SHELEF, University of Wisconsin Tel Aviv University / Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism AMAL JAMAL, Tel Aviv University A Panoramic View of Israeli Literary Readers: A YAEL BERDA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Case Study for Addressing Minority Harvard Kennedy School NATHANIEL SHILS, University of Pennsylvania (WB:06) Notions of Prestige—The IDF, Gender and the Public Attitudes to Militarism, (WB:04) Mandate Palestine: Conceptions, Perspectives and Realities CHAIR: INGRID ANDERSON, Boston University CHAIR: DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE, Smith College TECH MODERATOR: RUTH CARMI, University of Notre Dame TECH MODERATOR: ASAF SHAMIS, University of Haifa BEN HERZOG, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Elevating the Significance of Military Service: TAMIR GOREN, Bar-Ilan University Knesset Members and Republican Values The Effect of the Jews on Jaffa’s Economic Deterioration from 1936 to 1947 ESTHER CARMEL-HAKIM, University of Haifa Surika Braverman—the Unknown Fighter of the NAAMA COHEN, Tel Aviv University Israel Defense Force ‘Lesser Breeds’ or Blessed? Fundamental Paradigms as Relationship Shapers for the British in NEHA SIROHI, Tel Aviv University Mandatory Palestine Capitulatory Rights of the Boundaries of Druze Identity in the Culture of Militarism in Israel RAFAL SOROCZYNSKI, College of Education and Administration–Poznan Capitulatory Rights of the American Inhabitants of (WB:07) Zionisms in the Global South: Jewish Mandate Palestine Perspectives (B) REBEKKA GROSSMANN, The Hebrew University of CHAIR: ARIEH SAPOSNIK, Ben-Gurion University of Jerusalem the Negev

An Imperial Microhistory: Christian Views of Jewish TECH MODERATOR: PAULA KABALO, Ben-Gurion Nation-Building in Mandate Palestine University of the Negev 47 Wednesday, June 9, 2021

AVIAD MORENO, Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study JAVIER SIMONOVICH, Moshe Sharabi and Tal of Israel & Zionism Shahor, Yezreel Valley Academic College Moroccan Zionism Reconsidered: Ideas and The YVC Academic Puzzle: Diversity Programs in an Practices from the Global Hispanophone Israeli College

MARGALIT BEJARANO, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (WB:10) Women Teachers and Teaching Transnational Sephardic Zionism: The Case of Women: Moving the Gendered Educational FESELA Boundaries

MICHEL GHERMAN, Universidade Federal do Rio de CHAIR: GAYLE ZACHMANN, University of Florida Janeiro TECH MODERATOR: MICHAL RAUCHER, Rutgers Brazilian Far Right Politics, Jews and Zionism: A University Process of Political Conversion MORIA RAN BEN-HAI Brandeis University RESPONDENT: ARIEH SAPOSNIK, Ben-Gurion A School Rabbanit or Female Judaic Leader (Movila University of the Negev Yahadut)? Development of Schools’ Religious Reflections on Zionism as a Cultural Code Women’s Leadership as a Case Study for Women’s Religious Authority in Israel

(WB:08) In the Age of Covid: Community, YITZCHAK KRAUS, Bar-Ilan University Politics and Gender Women’s Role in the Generation of Redemption: The Mission for Women of the “Seventh CHAIR & MODERATOR: EYAL ZISSER, Tel Aviv Generation” According to the Teachings of the University Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel SHIRLEY LE PENNE and URIEL ABULOF, Cornell Schneerson University BAT-SHEVA MARGALIT STERN, Schechter Institute The Covid Crisis: Israel’s Memento Mori? of Jewish Studies DORON TIMOR Woman of Virtue: Shoshana Persitz and the Attempts to Implement ‘General Zionism’ in Israel “Community? Now, More Than Ever”—Kibbutz and the Challenge of Coronavirus (WB:11) Cultural Program: Performance and Q&A with dancer Omri Drumlevich (WB:09) The Impact of Diversity, Ethnicity and Gender on the Classroom CHAIR: JAN ERKERT, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign CHAIR: OFIRA FUCHS, Bar-Ilan University OMRI DRUMLEVICH, Dancer/Choreographer TECH MODERATOR: GILI HAMMER, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Performance and Q&A with Omri Drumlevich who has danced in the Batsheva Dance company, and MOSHE SHARABI, GILAD COHEN-YNON, JAVIER conducts Gaga workshops (the movement language SIMONOVICH and TAL SHAHOR, Yezreel Valley developed by Ohad Naharin, former artistic Academic College director). The Effect of Ethnicity on Parental Involvement in the Israeli Educational System

TOVA HARTMAN, Ono Academic College BREAK | 11:00–11:30 CST The Challenge of Multicultural Education: An Israeli Case Study

TAMMY RAZI, SIGAL NAGAR-RON and MOTI GIGI, Sapir Academic College Ethno-Gendered and National Inequality in Israeli Higher Education: Sapir Academic College as a Case Study 48 Wednesday, June 9, 2021

KOBI PELED, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev SESSION C | 11:30–13:00 CST Post-1967 Negev Bedouin Poetry of Protest and Discontent

(WC:00) PLENARY: WOMEN, ACTIVISM AND NORA OVADIA, Bar-Ilan University ISRAELI LAW Questioning Identities in the Works of Kamel Sponsored by: Daoud, Sayed Kashua and Alain Mabanckou

Krouse Family Visiting Scholars in Judaism and MENNA ABUKHADRA, Cairo University Western Culture Fund Between Stereotyping and Objectivity: The Image The Law School-Comparative Criminal Procedure of Jews in Egyptian Film and Television and Policing

CHAIR: RACHEL S. HARRIS, University of Illinois (WD:03) A Peace Plan—or Two Urbana-Champaign CHAIR & MODERATOR: RON HASSNER, University of TECH MODERATOR: DANA RABIN, University of California–Berkeley Illinois Urbana-Champaign RAMI ZEEDAN, The University of Kansas DAHLIA LITHWICK, Slate Peace to Prosperity vs. Peace Vision: A Comparison ALLISON SOMMER, Ha’aretz of Two US Presidential Peace Proposals Designed AMAL ELSANA ALH’JOOJ McGill University to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict RUTH HALPERIN-KADDARI, Bar-Ilan University EHUD GOLAN, Bar-Ilan University Commitment Problems and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict SESSION D | 13:00–14:30 CST

(WD:04) The Politics of BDS in Israel and (WD:01) Health and Science: Between Abroad Zionism and Religion CHAIR: DAVID HIRSH, Goldsmiths, University of CHAIR: ILANA SZOBEL, Brandeis University London

MODERATOR: ALON HELED, University of Florence TECH MODERATOR: LIAT ALON, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign RAPHAEL COHEN-ALMAGOR, University of Hull Male Circumcision in the Name of Tradition and RONNIE OLESKER, St. Lawrence University Good Health The Audience Dilemma: Internal and External Audiences in Israel’s Securitization Process OMRI TUBI, Northwestern University Rockefellerian-Zionism: The Malaria Research Unit TAMAR BARKAY, Tel Hai Academic College and the American-Jewish Contribution to State Israel’s (Civil) War on Human Rights Building, 1922-1940 IAN LUSTICK and NATHANIEL SHILS, University of MARCO DI GIULIO, Franklin and Marshall College Pennsylvania What Does a Healthy Zionist Look Like? Medical Israeli Responses to BDS: A War of Maneuver to Rationing and the Redefinition of Disability in the Avoid a War of Position Yishuv NAAMA LUTZ, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Harvard University and GALIA PRESS- (WD:02) Bedouin, Palestinian and Egyptian BARNATHAN, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Literature, TV, and Film States, Diplomacy and Transnational Advocacy Networks-State Reactions to the BDS Movement CHAIR: NAVA DUSHI, Lynn University

TECH MODERATOR: LIZY MOSTOWSKI, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 49 Wednesday, June 9, 2021

YUVAL GOZANSKY and MOTI GIGI, Sapir Academic (WD:05) Imagined Palestinians College CHAIR & RESPONDENT: JONATHAN ISACOFF, Nation-State Law In Israeli Journalism: Back To Gonzaga University “Partisan Press”?

TECH MODERATOR: GEOFFREY LEVIN, Emory HAGAR LAHAV, Sapir Academic College University Terms of Despair: The Israeli Press and the Gaza Wars KATHERINE HARBORD, Liverpool John Moores University UN Self-Interest and the Perpetuation of the (WD:08) Religion and Art Question of Palestinian Refugees CHAIR: MARTIN B. SHICHTMAN, University of UMUT UZER, Istanbul Technical University Eastern Michigan

The Fascination of the Turkish Left with Palestine in TECH MODERATOR: MELISSA MELPIGNANO, The the 1970s: “The Dream of Palestine” University of Texas at El Paso

SUSAN CHEVLOWE, Derfner Judaica Museum RIVKA NERIYA-BEN SHAHAR, Sapir Academic Representing Palestinians to the Diaspora: Leonard College Freed’s Photographs for Israel Magazine, 1967-68 Negative Spaces in the Triangle of Gender, Religion and New Media: A Case Study of the Ultra- Orthodox Community in Israel (WD:06) No Chuppah! Interfaith and Common Law Marriages in Israel DAN CHYUTIN, Tel Aviv University CHAIR: JENNIFER A. THOMPSON, California State Avishai Sivan’s “Tikkun” (2015) and the Problem of University–Northridge the Miraculous in Judaic-Themed Israeli Cinema

TECH MODERATOR: GABRIELLA DJERRAHIAN, MERAV MERON, The Open University of Israel Concordia University Bridging the Gap—Daniel Zamir’s Musical Quest for Israeli-Jewish Identity SHLOMIT ORYAN, Oranim College of Education and TAL MELER, Zefat Academic College Mutual Life and Coping Strategies of Jewish (WD:09) Global Politics and Security: The Women in Intercultural Jewish-Arab Families in Role of International Agreements Israel CHAIR: MIRA SUCHAROV, Carleton University LIORA SION, University of Copenhagen TECH MODERATOR: ILAN PELEG, Lafayette College Interfaith Marriages, Class and Ethnicity in Israel and Middle East Institute

HILA GEFFEN-SPITZ, Bar-Ilan University ZIV RUBINOVITZ, University of Haifa A Guide for the Perplexed: Journeys of Common US Policymaking on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Law Couples Towards Extraction of Rights, In Light 1967-Present: The Shift from External (Middle of the Privatization of the Common Law Marriage Eastern) Events to Domestic US Politics Institution EITAN BARAK, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel and the Biological Weapons Convention (WD:07) Between the Gaza Wars and the (BWC): The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity Nation-State Law: The Israeli-Arab Conflict in the Israeli Media RAPHAEL BENLEVI, University of Haifa CHAIR: ITAMAR RADAI, The Open University of The Evolution of and Challenges to the Israeli Israel Nuclear Consensus and the Future of Ambiguity

TECH MODERATOR: PAZ CARMEL, David Yellin College of Education / Bar-Ilan University.

HAMA ABU-KISHK, Sapir Academic College “Al-Hirak Al-Shababi” and the Youth in Arab Society in Israel: From Selectivism to Activism 50 Wednesday, June 9, 2021

TECH MODERATOR: DOUGLAS HOFFMAN, University (WD:10) Women in Hebrew Literature: of Illinois, Alumnus Motherhood, Aging, and Gender ETHAN FELSON, A Wider Bridge CHAIR: LIAT STEIR LIVNY, The Open University / ADAM GREGERMAN, St. Joseph’s University Sapir Academic College ILAN TROEN, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / TECH MODERATOR: OZ FRANKEL, New School for Brandeis University Social Research

VERED WEISS, San Francisco State University (WE:02) MINI-PLENARY: Continuity and The Torch of Empathy: Multilayered Chronotopes in Change in Political Culture in Israel and The Way to the Cats by Yehoshua Kenaz Beyond (in tribute to Myron J. Aronoff) YAEL HALEVI-WISE, McGill University CHAIR: YAEL ARONOFF, Michigan State University

A.B. Yehoshua’s Aging Women TECH MODERATOR: ARIANA MENTZEL, Michigan State University ROY HOLLER, University of Florida Black Widows: Passing and the Denial of SALIBA SARSAR, Monmouth University Motherhood in Orly Castel-Bloom’s “Ummi Fi Shurl” NADAV SHELEF, University of Wisconsin–Madison YOSSI BEILIN, Beilink—Business Foreign Affairs NAOMI CHAZAN, Van Leer Institute SESSION E | 14:30–16:00 CST ILAN PELEG, Lafayette College JOEL MIGDAL, University of Washington (WE:01) MINI-PLENARY: Christian Churches YAEL ZERUBAVEL, Rutgers University and the Jewish State RESPONDENT: MYRON (MIKE) J. ARONOFF, Rutgers CHAIR: CARY NELSON, University of Illinois Urbana- University Champaign

(WE:03) Cultural Program: Dance Party with Omri Drumlevich Join a dance party with Omri Drumlevich—a dance workshop for all bodies and abilities. Families welcome. 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 Index of Participants

Aronoff, Yael ME:01, TB:07, TE:02, Brown, Jeffrey R. TA:03 Chair LEGEND WE:02 Chair Broyer, Nili R. TE:05 Chair M = Monday, June 7 Ashqar Sharary, Nahed TD:04 Burgos, Marta WA:09 T = Tuesday, June 8 Asscher, Omri MB:04, WA:11 Tech W = Wednesday, June 9 Awad, Mira MF:00 Ayalon, Yaron MB:02 Chair A = 08.00-09.30 CST C Avron Barak, Noa MD:06 B = 09.30-11.00 CST Cammisa, Anne Marie TE:06 Avrutin, Eugene TD:05 Chair C*= 11.30-13.00 CST Carmel, Paz TD:07, WD:07 Tech Azaryahu, Maoz MD:07 Chair D = 13.00-14.30 CST Carmel-Hakim, Esther MB:10 Chair, Ayzenberg, Shimshon (Ignat) WA:07, E = 14.30-16.00 CST WB:06 TD:03 Tech 01–12 = Parallel sessions Carmi, Ruth TD:02, WB:06 Tech C* on Tuesday session C, the Business Chanes, Jerome ME:03 Meeting, starts at 11.00 CST, 12.00 Chazan, Meir TA:02 EST, 19.00 IST B Chazan, Naomi WE:02 Bagaini, Anna WA:09 Chen, Guangmeng TA:03 A Bahar, Dany TF:00 Chevlowe, Susan TD:08 Tech, WD:05 Bakkalbasioglu, Esra ME:01 Chyutin, Dan MD:12 Chair, TD:12 Chair, Aarons, Victoria TA:07 Chair, WA:05 Band, Anna WA:07 WD:08 Tech Bar Siman Tov, Ittai TE:06 Cohen, Angy MD:03 Abboud Armaly, Oriana MB:05 Barak, Eitan WD:09 Cohen, Hadas TA:06, TB:01 Tech Abed Elhai, Baraah TB:03 Barak-Gorodetsky, David MD:04, Cohen, Hillel MB:04 Abir-Am, Pnina WA:09 Tech TA:05 Tech Cohen, Janet WA:11 Aboud-Halabi, Yasmin TA:08 Behar, Almog MB:07 Cohen, Naama WB:04 Abu Rass, Rida MA:10 Beilin, Yossi WE:02 Cohen, Uri MA:03 Abukhadra, Menna MA:05 Tech, Bejarano, Margalit WB:07 Cohen-Almagor, Raphael ME:04 Tech, WD:02 Ben-Ami, Ilan TD:07 Chair TA:05 WD:01 Abu-Kishk, Hama WD:07 Ben-Asher Gitler, Inbal MB:09, TA:06 Cohen-Hattab, Kobi TB:02 Abulof, Uriel TE:04 WB:08 Tech Cohen-Skalli, Cedric MD:04 Abu-Rabia-Queder, Sarab MB:10, Ben-Ze’ev, Efrat MA:11 Colley, Stephanie TB:08 Tech, TD:02 TD:01 Chair Ben Ze’ev, Na’ama MB:05 Conforti, Yitzhak WA:07 Abutbul Selinger, Guy MB:01 Ben Zvi, Lilach TD:05 Crofony, Timea TA:04 Tech, TB:08 Aleksandrowicz, Or MA:09 Bendrihem, Reut Reina WA:06 Ali, Nohad TB:01 Chair BenLevi, Raphael WD:09 Alianov-Rautenberg, Viola MB:02, Ben-Shoshan Gazit, Efrat WA:03 MD:07 Tech, ME:05 Chair, TA:06 D Berda, Yael WB:03 Chair Daniel, Remi TB:05 Berenstein, Ofer MA:11 Tech, WB:05 Allweil, Yael MD:07 Daphna-Tekoah, Shir WA:10 Berg, Nancy E. MB:07 Tech, TD:10 Alonm Liat MB:02 Tech, TD:11, WB:01 Dardashti, Galeet MB:04 Chair, MD:03 Chair, WD:01 Tech Chair Daudi, Liat MD:02 Amal, Jamal MA:10, MB:02 Chair, Bernstein, Amanda MB:06, WA:01 David, Steven MB:11, TA:11 Tech MD:11 TD:03, TE:04, WB:03 Tech Davidi, Sigal MA:09 Amir, Gal MB:05 Bernstein, Deborah TD:11 Chair Dekel, Tal MA:11, TD:02 Chair Anderson, Ingrid WB:06 Chair Bhattacharya, Mehta MD:12 Tech Delgado, Luisa-Elena WA:12 Chair Aran, Amnon TB:06 Bishara, Arees TA:03 WA:03 Di Giulio, Marco WD:01 Arav, Dan TA:07 Blackmer, Corinne TA:01 Tech, TE:01 Diskin, Talia MD:05 Tech, WB:05 Aridan, Natan TA:10 Chair, WA:05 Boord, Matan TB:11 Djerrahian, Gabriella MD:01, ME:04 Ariel, Ari TB:09 Tech Brin, Eldad MB:08 Chair, WD:06 Tech Ariely, Gal MD:11 Tech, MD:11 Brom, Dotan TA:01 Dominguez, Virginia TA:08 Chair Aronoff, Myron (Mike) ME:01, WE:02 60 Index of Participants

Dorchin, Uri MD:01 Chair Golan, Galia TA:11 Chair, TB:09 Chair, Horowitz, Brian MA:03 Chair, TA:05, Dowty, Alan TB:07 TD:09 WA:10 Tech WA:04 Tech Drumlevich, Omri WB:11, WE:03 Gold Kfir, MD:09 Hussein, Mostafa TA:04 Chair, WA:09 Dushi, Nava MB:06 TD:12, WD:02 Goldstein, Amir MD:08 Chair Chair Goldman, Dara TD:06 Chair, TF:00 Dyduch, Joanna MA:05 Chair Goodman, Giora WB:02 I Goren, Shiri WA:01 Iakimova, Elizaveta WB:01 Goren, Tamir WB:04 E Imhoff, Sarah TB:08 Chair Gorodess, Talia MA:06 Eiran, Ehud TE:03 Inbari, Mordechai MB:04 Tech, MD:08 Goshadze, Mariam WA:08 Elefant, Lior MA:12 Chair, TA:05 Chair Gozansky, Yuval TD:12 Tech, WD:07 Ellenson, David WA:11 Chair Irani, Roi WA:05 Greenberg Slava TE:05 Elmaliach, Tal WA:04 Irshai, Ronit MA:01 Tech, TB:10 Chair Greenwald, Gilad WA:05, TB:04 Tech Elman, Miriam TE:01 Isacoff, Jonathan WD:05 Chair Gregorian, Adam WE:01 Elran, Meir Y. MA:07 Itzkovitch, Malka Reut TB:07 Grossmann, Rebekka WB:04 Elsana Alh’jooj, Amal WC:00 Guilat, Yael TB:05 Eraqi Klorman, Bat-Zion MD:03 Chair Guy, Karen MB:09 Erkert, Jan TE:07 Chair J Eviatar, Shira TE:07 Jelen, Sheila TE:03 Tech, WB:02 H Jonas Aharoni, Gabriela WA:01 Judkovsky, Alon TB:04 F Hadad, Ofir TB:09 Hagin, Boaz TD:12 Felson, Ethan WE:01 Haklai, Oded MA:10, ME:01 Chair, K Finkel, Meir MA:07 TD:03 TE:02 Chair Fischer, Louise TD:01 Halamish, Aviva TA:10, TD:09, WA:04 Kabalo, Paula MA:08 Tech, WA:05 Fish, Rachel ME:02 Chair, TD:03, Halevi-Wise, Yael MA:02 Tech, WD:10 Chair, WB:07 Tech TE:01 Halperin-Kaddari, Ruth MA:01 Chair, Kapshuk, Yoav MB:08 Frankel, Oz ME:03, WD:10 Tech MB:03 WC:00 Karlinsky, Nahum TB:11 Chair Freedman, Robert MB:11 Chair, TE:02 Hammer, Gili TB:10, WB:09 Tech Kaufman, Ilana TD:07 Freston, Paul WA:08 Harbord, Katherine WB:03 Tech, Kedar, Nir MA:08 Friedman, Elie TB:09 WD:05 Kerem, Yitzchak MD:01 Tech, ME:04 Fuchs, Ofira MB:03, TA:08 Tech, Harel Shalev, Ayelet MA:08 Chair, Keynan, Omer MD:01 WB:09 Chair TB:09 WA:10 Khazzoom, Aziza ME:02, TD:11 Tech Harris, Rachel S. TD:12, WA:12 Tech, Kheir, Sawsan MA:10 Tech, TB:01 WC:00 Chair Kidron, Anat TA:08 Hartal, Gilly TB:10 G Kirsh, Nurit MD:01 Hartman, Tova MB:03 Tech, WB:09 Gafni, Reuven MD:06, TA:02 Chair Klein, Eitan TA:04 Hasharoni, Galia MA:09MA:09 Galilee, Emir WA:02 Klein, Menachem TD:03 Hassner, Ron TE:06 Chair, WD:03 Kofman, Michal MA:09 Chair, MD:07, Geffen-Spitz, Hila WD:06 Chair TB:02 Tech Gershenson, Olga MD:09 Tech, TB:03 Hazan, Reuven TB:07 Chair, TG:00 Konopny-Decleve, Livnat TD:10 Heidecker, Nadav TD:08 Ghanem, As’ad TE:04 Kook, Rebecca MD:11 Chair, TB:09, Helled, Alon TD:07, WD:01 Tech Gherman, Michel WB:07, TD:05 Tech, TE:04 Chair Hellman, Jacob MA:04 Tech, ME:03 WA:08 Chair Kosstrin, Hannah TE:07 Herzog, Ben WB:06 Gigi, Moti WB:09 WD:07 Kranz, Dani TA:06 Herzog, Hanna TD:09, WA:03 Chair Gil Ronen, Ayelet WB:05 Kraus, Yitzchak WB:10 Hirsh, David WD:04 Chair Gilboa, Eytan MA:07, MB:11 Tech, Krauz, Shani TB:10 TA:05, WA:02 Tech Hoffman, Douglas WE:01 Tech Kritzman-Amir, Tally MD:05, TD:02 Gladstone, Benjamin MB:01 Hofnung, Menachem TB:07 Chair Chair Glick, Ruti WB:01 Hogan, Rachel Elizabeth MD:09 Kumaraswamy, PR MB:11 Gloeckner, Olaf MA:05 Holler, Roy MB:09 Tech, TD:08 Chair, WD:10 Golan, Ehud WA:06 Tech, WD:03 61 Index of Participants

Mendelson-Maoz, Adia MA:02, TA:10 L Tech R Lachover, Einat MB:09 TD:01 Mentzel, Ariana WE:02 Tech Rabin, Dana WB:05 Chair, WC:00 Lahat, Lihi TD:08, WA:03 Tech Meron, Merav WD:08 Tech Lahav, Hagar WD:07 Meyer, Barbara MB:04, TA:09 Tech Rabineau, Shay WA:02 Lahav, Pnina MA:08, ME:01, TD:09 Miccoli, Dario TD:11 Radai, Itamar MA:03 Tech, WD:07 Chair Michael, Kobi TA:07 Chair Chair Lasensky, Scott TE:02 Migdal, Joel MD:11, ME:01, WE:02 Rahat, Gideon TB:07 Lassner, Phyllis TD:09 Miller, Michael ME:04 Raichelson, Hadas MA:01 Lavi, Aharon Ariel MA:03 Mintus, Guy MF:00 Rajan K, Suraj WB:01 Lavy-Flint, Orna TA:07 Moreno, Aviad TD:11 WB:07 Ran Ben-Hai, Moria TD:04,3 WB:10 Le Penne, Shirley MD:10 Chair, WB:08 Moshkovski, Ari TD:05 Ran, Idit TB:10 Lehrs, Lior TA:11 Mostowski, Lizy MD:03 Tech, TD:04 Raucher, Michal TD:04 Chair, WB:10 Levin, Geoffrey TB:05, WD:05 Tech Tech, WD:02 Tech Tech Levy, Ayelet TB:06 Munk, Yael TB:04 Razi, Tammy WB:09 Levy, Yael MB:06 Tech, WA:01 Chair Reicher, Amir MB:08, TE:04 Tech Levy-Reifer, Ayelet TA:04 Reiter, Yitzhak TA:04 Lewis, Rafael TA:04 N Rettig, Elai WA:06 Revivo, Oshrat WB:05 Libel Hass, Einat TB:08 Nadler, Mei-Tal MA:02 Rieder-Indursky, Estee WA:03 Lin, Nimrod TA:01 Nagar-Ron, Sigal MB:01 WB:09 Robinson Divine, Donna TA:09 Chair, Lipshitz, Yair MA:04 Nahshon, Edna MA:04 Chair, ME:03 WB:04 Chair Lisanti, Alexa MB:10 Tech, MD:06 Chair Roginsky, Dina TB:03, MD:09 Chair Tech Naor, Moshe MA:08 MB:02 Rojanski, Rachel WA:04 Chair Lithwick, Dahlia WC:00 Nathansohn, Regev TD:08 Rosen, Ido MD:07 Livnat, Inbar MB:10 Neemani, Elad TB:02 Rosenberg-Friedman, Lilach TA:09 Locker-Biletzki, Amir TD:06 Nelson, Cary WE:01 Chair Rosman-Stollman, Elisheva MB:03 Lomsky-Feder, Edna MA:11 WA:10 Neriya-Ben Shahar, Rivka WD:08 Chair, MB:03, TA:09 Lowenheim, Oded TE:03 Nikolenyi, Csaba MA:03, MD:04 Tech, Rozin, Orit MD:08 Lubotzky, Asher ME:04 TE:06 Rubinovitz, Ziv TA:05 WD:09 Lustick, Ian MD:11, TD:03, TE:04, Nir, Oded MA:02 Rynhold, Jonathan TE:02 WD:04 Nissim, Gadi MD:02 Lutz, Naama WD:04

S O M Sa’ar, Amalia MB:10 Ofek, Yiftach MD:04 Sagiv, Masua MA:01 Maddy-Weitzman, Bruce TB:06 Chair, Olesker, Ronnie MA:07 Tech, WD:04 Salman, Yaron MA:07 TB:06 Oren, Neta ME:01 Tech, TD:07 Saposnik, Arieh MA:06 Chair, TB:11, Margalit Stern, Bat-Sheva WB:10 Oryan, Shlomit WD:06 WB:07 Chair, WB:07 Marketa, Odlova TB:01 Ovadia, Nora WD:02 Marnin-Distelfeld, Shahar MB:05 Sarsar, Saliba WE:02 Martin, Gabriel TA:03 Tech, TD:01 Sasley, Brent TE:03 Tech, WA:08 Tech Sasson, Avraham (Avi) TA:04 P Masad, Dana TA:07 Sasson-Levy, Orna WA:10 Mayer, Michael TG:00 Pauker, Alon TA:02 Sato, Nobuto Tech, MB:10 Maziad, Marwa ME:01 Peled, Kobi WD:02 Saxe, Leonard MD:10 McGee, Sofia MB:01 Tech, TD:09 Tech, Peleg, Ilan MB:11, TD:03 Chair, WD:09 Scham, Paul TA:10 WB:05 Tech Tech, WE:02 Schaum, Ina TA:06 McGonigle, Ian WA:06 Peleg, Yaron, TA:01 Chair Schneider, Emily ME:02 TD:10 TE:03 Meir-Glitzenstein, Esther MD:03 Podeh, Elie TA:11 Schraub, David TE:01 Meler, Tal MB:05 WD:06 Pogorelskin, Alexis WB:02 Chair Segal, Amir MD:10 TA:05 TD:10 Melpignano, Melissa TE:07, WD:08 Prashizky, Anna MB:03 Segal, Hamutal MB:07 Chair Tech Press-Barnathan, Galia WD:04 Segev, Zohar WA:04 Menachem Zoufala, Marcela MA:05 Pridan, Ariel MB:07 Selzer, Assaf WA:02 Pullum, Lindsey ME:03 Tech, TB:01 Shabat, Nadir Hadas MB:07 62 Index of Participants

Shahar, Ido MD:05 Strick, Hinanit WA:11 Shalev, Marom Marva TD:01 Sucharov, Mira TB:07, TD:03, TE :03 Y Shamir, Eilon TA:02 Chair, TE:03, WD:09 Chair Yagelnik-Frishtik, Tzipi MD:05 Shamis, Asaf WA:07, WB:04 Tech Szobel, Ilana MA:02 Chair, TE:05, Yahel, Havatzelet TB:07 Tech, WA:02 WD:01 Chair Shams, Raeefa ME:02 Tech, TE:01 Yahel, Ido TD:02, WB:02 Tech Chair Yanay-Ventura, Galit TA:08 Shanes, Joshua MD:04 Chair, ME:02, Yang, Yang TA:03 TE:01 Tech T Yavo-Ayalon, Sharon MA:09 Tech, Shapira, Anita TA:10 Tadmor-Shimony, Tali MD:09 TB:02 Chair, TD:08 ME:05 Chair Shapira, Yehotal TB:02 Talal, Olga MA:10 Yehezkel-Lahat, Osnat TE:05 Sharabi, Moshe MB:05 TA:08,2 Talmon, Miri TA:07 Tech, TB:04 Chair, Yehudai, Ori MA:06 Tech, MD:08 WA:09 WB:09 WA:01 Yerushalmi, Dorit MA:04 Sheffi, Na’ama MA:11 Tam, Alon MB:02 TD:11 Yiftachel, Oren TE:04 Shelef, Nadav TD:09, TE:02 Tech, Teitelbaum, Joshua MB:11 Yogev, Dikla MD:10, TD:07 Tech WB:03, WE:02 Teitlbaum-Karrie, Naama TA:09 Yohanani, Lior TD:02, TE:06 Tech Shelleg, Assaf MD:06 Terris, Lesley TA:11 Yungman, Mira TB:05 Shem-Tov, Naphtaly MA:04 Thompson, Jennifer A. TB:08 Tech, Sheniak, Amit TA:03 WD:06 Chair Shenkar, Miriam TD:06 Timor, Doron WB:08 Z Sherzer, Adi MA:06 Tirosh, Yofi MA:01 Shevchenko, Yulia MB:09 Zalashik, Rakefet MB:02 Toniol, Rodrigo WA:08 Shichtman, Martin B. TE:07 Tech, Zachmann, Gayle MD:05 Chair, TD:06 Totry-Jubran, Manal MA:01 WD:08 Chair Tech, WB:10 Chair Troen, Ilan TA:10 WE:01 Shiff, Ofer MA:06 Zamir, Smadar MA:12 Tubi, Omri WD:01 Shilo, Margalit MB:01 Chair, TA:09 Zanger, Anat Y. TB:04 Tzom Ayalon, Anat MB:06 Shils, Nathaniel WB:03, WD:04 Zeedan, Rami MD:09 WD:03 Shimoni Stoil, Rebecca MB:08 Chair, Zerubavel, Yael MA:11 Chair, MB:09 MD:08 Tech Chair, WE:02, TD:09 Shinar, Levanon Ofer WB:02 U Zer-Zion, Shelly MA:04 Shoshana, Avihu MD:01 Uzer, Umut TB:05 Tech, WA:06 Chair, Zion-Waldoks, Tanya MD:02 Chair, Shufan, Stav WA:11 WD:05 TD:04 Siefkin, Sven TE:06 Zisser, Eyal MA:07, WB:08 Chair Silverman, Gila TE:05 Tech Silverman, Jason TB:05 V Simonovich, Javier WA:07 Tech, EXHIBITORS WB:09 Vater, Roman TB:06 Academic Engagement Network Singh, Mansheetal MA:05 Tech Vela, Alejandro MB:08 Tech, TB:11 Tech, WB:01 Tech Academic Studies Press Singha, Sumana WB:01 Berghan Sion, Liora WD:06 Indiana University Press Sirohi, Neha WB:06 W Israel Institute Smith, Rebecca TF:00 Wayne State University Press Sommer, Allison WC:00 Waxman, Dov TD:07, TE:01, WB:03 Summer Institute for Israel Studies Soroczynski, Rafal WB:04 Chair Spector-Bitan, Graciela TA:01 Weinger, Susan WA:02 Chair Sperling, Eli TD:06 Weininger, Melissa TA:01, TB:10 Tech Starr, David MD:10 Tech, WA:07 Chair Weiss, Shayna MB:06 Chair, TA:12 Steir Livny, Liat MA:10 Chair, WB:02, Chair, TD:12 WD:10 Chair Weiss, Vered MD:06 Chair, TD:10 Stern, Anat MA:08, TA:02 Tech, Tech, WD:10 WA:10 Chair Wentling, Sonja TB:05 Chair Stern, Cindy MA:12 Wexler, Elad TA:12 Stern, Nehemia TD:05 Wexler, Esti TA:12 63