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In this episode of The Global Connection podcast, host Dr. Anna Sajecki joins two representatives of TAU’s Model UN Society, President Amit Gershon and Board Member Mary Absawy, to chat about running Model UN at TAU, the world of global diplomacy, building a global community of friends, and bringing people from around the world together for this year’s TAU Model UN Conference. Want to get involved...

Renowned American filmmaker Lawrence Kasanoff has had a hand in movies such as Dirty Dancing, Platoon, Terminator 2, True Lies and the Mortal Kombat series, and is about to release his new book, A Touch of the Madness: How to Be More Innovative in Work and Life … by Being a Little Crazy. Recently, Kasanoff was also the chair of the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival and sat down with The...

Amid the weekly protests occurring in Tel Aviv-Yafo, a major global travel blog has voted the city the happiest in the world. In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki talks to Nadav Laor, head of incoming tourism at Tel Aviv Global, about the ingredients that make up Tel Aviv.

Naomi Brenner is an associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University. Tamar Sovran is a professor emerita from the Department of Hebrew Language and Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. Taking a short break from the National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) annual conference, the two sat down with The Global...

In this episode of The Global Connection, host Dr. Anna Sajecki joins Turkish attorney Nurgul Gokpinar and Nigerian lawyer Olivia Mbonu – two students in the International LL.M Program at Tel Aviv University who are focused on law and technology – to chat about what brought them to Israel, comparative law in a global context, and the current challenges with regulating artificial intelligence and m...

As we become more and more hooked into digital products like our phones, computers, and smart gadgets, we also set ourselves up for more and more danger. In episode #7 of The Global Connection podcast, global cyber security expert and activist Chris Roberts sits down with host Anna Sajecki to chat about his own history and present as a hacker, what the role of the cyber security industry should be...

In Episode #5 of The Global Connection podcast, host Dr. Anna Sajecki talks with Nadav Cohen, an assistant professor of computer science at Tel Aviv University and research director at the University’s Foundations of Deep Learning Lab. Cohen is also the chief scientist and cofounder of Imubit. In this podcast episode, the two discuss Cohen’s research on the mathematical foundations of Artificial I...

In The Power of Deserts: Climate Change, The Middle East and the Promise of a Post-Oil Era, Tel Aviv University Prof. Dan Rabinowitz takes readers through our current climate change reality and suggests an opportunity for hope and global leadership in the region. This episode of The Global Connection podcast features Prof. Rabinowitz on climate change in the Middle East, his lifelong interest in e...

Do historical and contemporary theatre performances reveal something about how we collectively dream across time and space? In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki talks to Dr. Sharon Aronson Lehavi and Dr. Ruthie Abeliovich, two professors from the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University, about a new international project with the University of Cologne. Curating Thea...

In Episode #3 of The Global Connection podcast, host Dr. Anna Sajecki sits down with Indonesian student Aryo Brahmantyo and Mexican student Paul Frankel to reflect on international life in Israel, why Indonesia needs diplomatic ties with Israel, the Mexican-U.S. border in context, being Muslim in Israel, the particularity of language, and what one can do with an MA degree in Security and Diplomacy...

Delphine Horvilleur is a prominent rabbi, journalist, leader of the Liberal Jewish Movement of France (MJLF), and author of the award-winning book Living with Our Dead (Vivre avec Nos Morts). In this episode of the Global Connection podcast, Horvilleur joins guest host Hana Wirth-Nesher – TAU full professor of English and American Studies and founding director of the Jona Goldrich Institute for Yi...

Dr. José Luis Punzo Diaz is a faculty member with Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History in the Michoacán department. Andrea Garza is in the Ancient Israel Studies MA program at Tel Aviv University and is looking to complete a PhD in archaeology. Together they sat down with host Dr. Anna Sajecki for Episode #1 of The Global Connection podcast to reveal what archaeology can tell us...

Not too many people know that Tel Aviv University’s Tisch School of Film & TV has been, since 1986, the host to one of the largest and most important gatherings of young filmmakers. In this episode of TAU Unbound Ido Aharoni Aronoff is hosting two of the festival’s producers and managers: Ms. Michal Rudnick (head of Marketing) and Dolev Amitai (head of foreign affairs and guests). Michal &...

Udi Aharoni, the longstanding CEO and academic Director of Lahav executive education at Tel Aviv University’s Coller School of Management, is our guest in this new episode of TAU Unbound. Host Ido Aharoni Aronoff is engaging in a lively conversation about how to communicate Israel’s unique ingredients that are largely responsible for the creation of the country’s innovation eco-system. Udi runs La...

Episode 24 brings the unique and brilliant voice of Prof. Yishai Blank, the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, the country’s leading law school. A graduate of Tel Aviv University, Prof. Blank’s background in the study of law is unique: he specializes in Local Government Law, Administrative Law, Global Cities, Urban Legal Theory and Policy, Law and Secularism, Legal Theory, and Juri...

Tel-Aviv born, Prof. Meir Ariel is the Head of the Tel Aviv University New Space Center, the Director General of the Herzliya Science Center and a Researcher at the School of Electrical Engineering. Under his guidance, his students launched several nano-satellites into space in recent years. Here, Prof. Ariel is discussing with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff, why they shift to small satellites represent...

Department of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History. Together they embarked on this incredible journey to explore the secrets of plants.. 00:00 - intro 01:37 - Prof. Hadani's personal background 04:07 - Prof. Yuval's personal background. 05:00 - Israel as a junction where the bats are concentrated 07:00 - Collaboration on bioacoustics 08:48 - Do plants hear and make sounds? 09:26 -...

In episode #20 of TAU Unbound, host Ido Aharoni Aronoff introduces us to the great work of acclaimed archeologist Prof. Yuval Gadot. He has served as the Head of the Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel-Aviv University and is a lead archaeologist at the ‘City of David’ excavations project. Among his many other roles, Prof. Gadot is also the co-director of the ‘Givati Parking Lot’ Excavations and...

In episode 19 of TAU Unbound, host Ido Aharoni Aronoff is engaging in a fascinating conversation with one of the academic superstars of Tel Aviv University: historian Dr. Yael Strenhell, whose expertise is the American Civil War and its long aftermath. Dr. Sternhell is able to draw parallels from the Civil War era to today’s political struggles. At the core of the discussion: to whom does America...

Our guest Prof. Daphna Joel conceived the ‘mosaic’ hypothesis – the claim that sex differences in the brain do not add-up consistently in individuals. In a discussion with out host, Ido Aharoni Aronoff, she contends that most brains are composed of both features more common in females and features more common in males. Prof. Joel received her Ph. D. in psychology in Tel-Aviv University in 1998, an...

In our 17th Episode, host Ido Aharoni Aronoff, engages in a discussion about the importance of inclusion and diversity in the performance of complex organizations such as academic institutions. In the studio we host two leaders of Tel Aviv University: One, Prof. Milette Shamir, Vice President of Tel Aviv University, in charge of international academic collaboration whose academic expertise is in E...

Prof. Hanni Lerner is the energetic head of Tel Aviv University’s School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs. Her field of expertise could not have been more relevant for this topic: the comparative study of constitutions. In this episode of TAU Unbound, host Ido Aharoni Aronoff and Prof. Lerner engage in a discussion about the history of Israel’s several failed attempts to...

In this episode of TAU Unbound our host, Ambassador Ido Aharoni Aronoff, is hosting Environmental Expert prof. Vered Blass of the Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. Dr. Blass, who obtained her advanced degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, is an expert in sustainability consequences. Here, we learn about the importance of engaging the general public in changin...

In this episode of TAU Unbound our host, Ambassador Ido Aharoni Aronoff, is hosting two young academics representing the Africa Project and Engineers Without Borders: a group of 22 volunteers, all from TAU, who diligently work to improve lives of villagers in Africa. Ra'anana-born Yaeli Benovich and Tel-Aviv born Offir Inbar, fell in love with Tanzania, were they work on the implementing of water-...

In this episode of TAU Unbound our host, Ambassador Ido Aharoni Aronoff, is hosting Dr. Bruria Adini, head of the Department of Emergency Management and Disaster Medicine in the School of Public Health, in the Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Prof. Adini Spent 17 years in the Israel Defense Forces and then in the Ministry of Health and acquired invaluable knowledge in the management of...