The Lowy International School I The Global Connection

In this episode of TAU Unbound our host, Ambassador Ido Aharoni Aronoff, is hosting Dr. Irit Back, the Head of the Inter-University program of African Studies at Tel Aviv University. Irit is a lecturer in the Department of Middle East and African Studies and Head of the Africa Research Program at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. Her research interests are contemporary...

In this episode of TAU Unbound our host, Ambassador Ido Aharoni Aronoff, is hosting Tel Aviv University’s Dean of Engineering Prof. Noam Eliaz to discuss the fascination subject of material science. Why the strength of materials is so important of the future of humanity? Why an interdisciplinary approach is needed to better utilize scientific breakthroughs in engineering? Here we learn that materi...

In this episode of TAU Unbound our host, Ambassador Ido Aharoni Aronoff, is engaging in a lively discussion about Israel’s popular culture with expert Dr. Miri Talmon who had studies mass media and popular culture for decades. What happened to the Israeli image as a “Sabra” Is it still prickly from the outside but sweet from the inside? Why should the world know about the great humor of Ephraim Ki...

An only son to Holocaust survivors, Prod. Moshe Zviran is a Professor of Information Technology at the Coller School of Management and served as Dean of the School from 2014-2022. Currently the Chief Entrepreneurship and innovation officer of Tel Aviv University and Head of the Bloomberg Sagol Initiative for City Leadership, he is our guest in this episode of TAU Unbound. Prof. Zviran has a unique...

In this episode of TAU Unbound, Prof. Ronit Satch-Fainaro, a former concert-level ballet dancer and the head of the Cancer Research and Nanomedicine Laboratory, shares her ground-breaking work 3D printing tissues, customizing cancer treatment and applying nano-medicine. Prof. Satchi-Fainaro talks about the counter-intuitive connection between dance and medical research and shares her tremendous op...

In this episode of TAU Unbound we had a chance to discuss the future of computing and exact sciences from Natanya-born Prof. Tova Milo Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences. How powerful will computers help advance solutions to health-related, environmental, and societal problems? Prof. Milo shares about her career and her faculty’s work. 00:30 How she came to study exact science 3:45 How she tran...

A former President of Tel Aviv University (1999-2007) and Ambassador to the USA (1993-1996), Prof. Itamar Rabinovich played an active role in some of Israel’s most critical and intriguing foreign policy moments. In this episode of TAU Unbound Rabinovich shares with host Ambassador Ido Aharoni Aronoff some ‘behind the scene’ anecdotes about his close personal ties with the late Prime Minister Yitzh...

The career of Israeli political scientist Prof. Udi Sommer brought him to America where he studies and taught American politics, politics of sexuality and gender, judicial politics, pandemics and politics, and cyber Security. In this episode of TAU Unbound, Prof. Sommer shares with host Ambassador Ido Aharoni Aronoff, his predictions for the future of the American political system, analysis of the...

Tajikistan-born award-winning social psychologist Daniel Bar-Tal, is known for his deep analysis of Israel’s “psyche”. Imagine the national version of “In Treatment” - an entire nation in a therapy session. In this episode of Tau Unbound, host Ambassador Ido Aharoni Aronoff will discuss with Bar-Tal what is the meaning of “siege mentality” and how it affects peacemaking efforts in times of lingeri...

As a young person, the Switzerland-born Executive Director of Tel Aviv University’s International School, Maureen Meyer Adiri, was always attracted to Israel’s energy and vibrancy. Her ongoing love affair with Israel and her unique personal account of the Aliyah experience, serve as an inspiration to the many international students that passed through her program. In this episode of TAU Unbound, M...

Haifa-born Tel Aviv University physicist, Prof. Yaron Oz, spent decades learning the power of computing and explored practical ways for humankind to harness computational advancements to the betterment of life. In this episode of TAU Unbound, Prof Oz brilliantly simplifies, with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff, complex subjects such as high energy particle physics, quantum gravity, quantum information an...

Born in an ambulance at the gate of the Weitzman Institute of Science, Tel Aviv University’s Vice President, Prof. Dan Peer is an extraordinarily prolific scientist: he has more than 130 patents under his name and over 150 publications he has authored. In this episode of TAU Unbound, host Ido Aharoni Aronoff, is engaged in an inspirational discussion with Dan Peer about essential issues such as na...