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In the summer of 2020, a civil protest broke out in Israel. For a year, demonstrations took place every week throughout the country, attended cumulatively by a million citizens from a wide range of backgrounds, sectors and ages.

Or-ly Barlev, a famous independent Israeli journalist and activist, who covered the protest with ongoing live broadcasts, will talk about the protest of 2020-21 through the personal lens of local participants. The lecture will take place through Zoom and will be in English.

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Moriel Rothman-Zecher, ‘11, returns to Middlebury to read from his first novel, Sadness Is a White Bird, a coming-of-age novel of which the Jerusalem Post has said that it “conveys the complexities of Israeli and Palestinian life with passion, nuance and tenderness…” Rothman-Zecher “has shown a fearlessness and vulnerability on these pages that speak to his ability to explore difficult terrain without feeling the need to draw any neat or concise conclusions. It shuns certainty and is open, nuanced, inconclusive and often contradictory. Just like Israeli reality.”

Amos Oz, who died last year on the 28th of December, was a beloved Israeli writer, and probably the most widely known figure in modern Hebrew literature outside Israel. His works—novels, short stories, essays, memoir—have been translated into 45 languages. He was also one of the first, after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, to call for a two-state solution to the conflict between Palestinian Arabs and the State of Israel.

Sponsored by the Hebrew Program and the Jewish Studies Program.

“David and Goliath: how Israeli Scientists maneuver in a world of Giants” presented by Professor Gad Yair, Sloan School of Management, MIT

Ishmael Khaldi, author of “A Shepard’s Journey: the story of Israel’s first Bedouin diplomat” will present “Bedouins and Other Minorities in Israel.” A 45 minute lecture followed by Q&A.