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Our guest is Prof. Emeritus Thalma Lobel former head of TAU’s Psychology Department and Dean of Students. Thalma is a prolific writer who authored several bestsellers on the practical applications of psychological methodologies. In this episode, Lobel shares with host Ido Aharoni ways to reduce stress and mitigate anxiety during wartime in Israel. She received her Ph. D. in Psychology from Tel Avi...

In this episode of TAU Unbound, host Ido Aharoni is interviewing prolific Israeli academic and writer Prof. Uriya Shavit of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities. Shavit, who received his PhD from TAU, talks about the origins of Hamas, its ties throughout the region and Israel’s options. Prof. Shavit is a professor of Islamic studies and, since 2016, has served...

This new episode of TAU Unbound introduces TAU Vice Provost Prof. Eyal Zisser, who also serves as the holder of The Ettinger Chair in Contemporary History of the Middle East. Dean of Humanities (2010-2015), Director of the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (2007-2010) and Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Prof. Zisser covered in this conversation the r...

In this special episode of The Global Connection, guest host Maria Ellul – an International student and member of a Tel Aviv University (TAU) task force fighting disinformation – interviews TAU historian Prof. Havi Dreifuss, who is the head of the Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research. Together they discuss the meaning of anti...

In this episode of The Global Connection, renowned diplomat, entrepreneur and academic Dr. Ronen Hoffman speaks with Anna Sajecki about working with Tel Aviv University to launch the new Exploration, Leadership and Innovation (ELI) program – an immersive and academically rigorous gap-year program for Jewish students; as well as what he learned from late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and from livin...

Professor Eyal Ben-Dor is from the Department of Geophysics at Tel Aviv University and is currently involved in an international project helping to revolutionize the type of information we can gather about earth from space. In this episode of the Global Connection, Ben-Dor talks with Anna Sajecki about this international project and the future of hyperspectral remote sensing.   Learn more about so...

Corey Gil-Shuster is the Director of the International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation at Tel Aviv University; he is also the person behind The Ask Project – a YouTube video project where he solicits questions from around the world and takes them to the street, asking Israelis and Palestinians across Israel and the West Bank. In this episode of The Global Connection, Anna Sajecki talk...

Dr. Yaara Oren is a cancer researcher at Tel Aviv University who recently won a European Research Council grant for her work on persister cells – cancer cells that don’t respond to traditional cancer treatments and remain in the body even after a patient enters remission. In this episode of The Global Connection, Oren speaks with host Anna Sajecki about this rising field of research and its overal...

Professor Uzi Rabi, who obtained his Ph. D from Tel Aviv University in 2000, is the energetic Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, and a senior researcher at the Center for Iranian Studies, both at Tel Aviv University. In this episode of TAU Unbound, Prof. Rabi is sharing with us some of his vast knowledge about the Middle East, providing an analysis of the ac...

Prof. Aeyal Gross is a member of the Faculty in Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law where he teaches International Law and Constitutional Law. He regularly teaches as Visiting Professor at SOAS, University of London. Prof. Gross, who is a leading voice against the proposed judicial overhaul in Israel, holds an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University (1990) and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (1996). In...

some observations about the state of global economy. Prof. Ater earned his bachelor (law and economics) and Master's degrees, both Cum Laude, from the Hebrew University. Before pursuing his Ph. D. studies in Economics at Stanford University, he also worked at the Israeli Antitrust Authority. His research examines the sources of the high cost of living in Israel. In particular, he studies how gover...

Dr. Adler is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Math, Science and Technology at Constantiner School of Education at Tel Aviv University. In this episode of TAU Unbound, she discusses with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff, the meaning of "Teaching and learning within socio-constructivist environments”, a system she advocates based on her research and experience. Dr. Adler is a great believer in...

Major Gen. (Res.) Professor Isaac Ben-Israel is one of the most influential people in Israel in recent decades: he is one of the architects of Israel’s cyber-security prowess, a longstanding advocate of Israel’s increasing role in space as, as the 17-year Chair of the country’s space agency and, of course, as the Director of the Blavatnik ICRC and Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and...

Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Neta Erez is the Head of the laboratory of tumor biology and the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Her research centers around ways to understand and combat the spread of breast cancer and melanoma, all the while trying to decode th interaction between the tumor and its environment. In this episode Prof. Erez discusses with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff the early stages...

Tel Aviv University’s Dr. Nadav Cohen as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a rising star in the field of artificial intelligence and data analytics. Dr. Cohen’s research focuses on the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of deep learning, analyzing aspects of expressiveness, optimization and generalization. The goal of his research is to derive theoretically founded procedures and...

USA-born Prof. Laura Rosen is the Chairperson of the Department of Health Promotion in School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Prof. Rosen moved to Israel in 1986. Inspired by her own family experience, she took on the issue of smoking, second-hand smoking and collateral societal damage - as her main focus as a researcher and public health advocate. In this episode Pro...

Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Erez Shmueli is the head of the Big Data Lab in the Department of Industrial Engineering. He is the co-head of the undergraduate program in Data Science and a prolific scientist whose work has impacted the lives of many, from digital authentication to digital diagnosis of viral diseases. In this episode Prof. Shmueli discusses with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff the various u...

Our new episode of TAU Unbound highlights the importance of Macroeconomics, which focuses on how an overall economic structure (markets, businesses, consumers, and governments) perform, react and influences our lives. Aharoni & Yashiv discuss economy-wide phenomena such as inflation, price levels, rate of economic growth, national income, gross domestic product (GDP), and changes in unemployme...

In this special episode of The Global Connection, Dr. Yoav Fromer, the head of Tel Aviv University’s Center for US Studies, interviews TAU international students Ari Spielman and Maria Ellul on their lived experience following the October 7, 2023 terror attacks by Hamas, and on the initiatives they have since helped start to assist victims and fight disinformation with fact. Follow the student-led...

Episode #17: Ayelet Tsabari on the Art of Representing Israel and the World Israeli-Canadian author Ayelet Tsabari is the award-winning author of short-story collection The Best Place on Earth, memoir The Art of Leaving, as well as a forthcoming novel. Tsabari, who also teaches a prose workshop at Tel Aviv University, joins The Global Connection podcast and host Dr. Anna Sajecki to chat about writ...

Tel Aviv University (TAU) was recently ranked the #2 university in the world (and the top university outside of the United States) for producing founders of unicorn companies, or companies worth more than $1 billion. In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki talks with Nimrod Cohen, the managing partner and co-founder of TAU Ventures, about the unique ingredients that make up ent...

Prof. Justin Cammy is chair of the programs in World Literatures and Jewish Studies at Smith College in the United States and is also an onsite program director for the Naomi Prawer Kadar International Summer Yiddish Program at Tel Aviv University (TAU). In this episode of The Global Connection, Cammy discusses the evolution and distinctiveness of the language; why Yiddish and the flourishing of Y...

This year Tel Aviv University (TAU) has the largest cohort ever of students participating in an academic exchange program. In this episode of The Global Connection podcast, host Dr. Anna Sajecki speaks with Noa Beit On – a TAU biology student who recently spent time studying in Australia – and Sagi Yehudaie – a TAU political science and East Asian studies student heading to Taiwan – about the expe...

TAU Prof. Daphna Hacker is a sociologist, as well as a full professor in TAU’s gender studies program and in the Buchmann Faculty of Law. In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki asks Dr. Hacker about her academic and activist work, as well as her new role as part of the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).  Interested in human ri...

In Episode #13 of The Global Connection podcast, host Dr. Anna Sajecki talks with international scientific researcher Dr. Arjan Boonman, who works in the Bat Lab for Neuro-Ecology at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The two discuss Arjan’s journey from the Netherlands to TAU by way of Indonesia, the type of research happening at TAU’s bat lab, what it means to be an international researcher at TAU, and...