Prof. Michael Feuer is the Dean of Graduate Education at George Washington University, was formerly the president of the National Academy of Education in the United States, and is an expert on the relationship of education to democracy and equality, In this episode of The Global Connection, The Lowy International School’s Orit Coty interviews Feuer about his new book, Can Schools Save Democracy? Civic Education and the Common Good (2023), and about the growing division on campuses, what has gone...
Aug 20, 2024•31 min•Ep. 50
Israel’s military and civilian systems may have been prepared for a disaster the magnitude of October 7, but did the response match the preparation? And how is the state faring as it continues to manage the ongoing crisis? In this episode of The Global Connection, Larry French, a master’s student at Tel Aviv University (TAU), interviews Bruria Adini, the head of TAU’s international Master of Disaster Management program. The two discuss ways to characterize the crisis, how different levels of soc...
Apr 03, 2024•25 min•Season 2Ep. 35
In this episode of The Global Connection, Orit Coty from the Lowy International School interviews Jonti Shepherd about what it’s like to make Aliyah and begin a PhD at Tel Aviv University (TAU), only to have October 7 months later. Jonti, who was born in South Africa but has lived around the world, is now working towards a PhD in hyperspectral remote sensing. He and Orit discuss South Africa’s political animosity towards Israel, his decision to immigrate and the role TAU has played, what his res...
Mar 27, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Today, more than two billion people suffer from unsafe water. In the Water Energy (WE) Lab at Tel Aviv University (TAU), researchers not only develop technologies to purify water, wastewater and waste, but implement them in places like India and Uganda. This episode of The Global Connection features the head of the WE Lab, Prof. Hadas Mamane, in conversation with PhD candidate Dana Pousty. The two chat about life in the lab and the projects being developed, their clean-water venture SoLED and wh...
Mar 21, 2024•33 min•Season 7Ep. 38
At the Maoz Lab, Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers are revolutionizing how diseases and trial drugs can be studied, using human tissues and recreating organs via “organ-on-a-chip” technologies. This episode of The Global Connection shares the experience of two international researchers in that lab: MSc student Emma Glickman and PhD candidate Neta Fibeesh. Along with Prof. Ben Maoz, they discuss what it’s like to research at TAU and how they’re using stem cells and simulating mini-organs to a...
Mar 13, 2024•34 min•Ep. 37
Dr. Sagi Jaffe-Dax is a researcher with the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University (TAU), where he heads up the Cognitive Development Lab. In this episode of The Global Connection, Orit Coty from The Lowy International School interviews Sagi about the field of neuroscience; the differences between child and adult cognition; what neuroscience can tell us about the infant brain; and about Jaffe-Dax’s new role as head of the International MSc in Neuroscience program. Interested in the ...
Feb 21, 2024•22 min•Season 2Ep. 36
For a number of Jews around the world, one response to October 7 has been a deep desire to come to Israel and to give back. Sharon Fraenkel, executive director of Canadian Friends of Tel Aviv University (CFTAU) for Ottawa, Quebec and Atlantic Canada, is no exception. In this episode of The Global Connection, Fraenkel is interviewed by Ben Bright – an international MA student at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and a member of the student-led movement @IsraelWarStory. They chat about Jewish life and ant...
Feb 14, 2024•32 min•Ep. 49
On October 7, everything in Israel changed, including for Startup Nation. In this special episode of The Global Connection, Jackie Goren, head of the Sofaer Global MBA program at Tel Aviv University (TAU), interviews Nimrod Cohen, the managing partner of TAU Ventures. The two discuss how Startup Nation has fared since October 7, its outlook moving forward and the lessons in agility and leadership to be learned from this time. Want to learn more about the Sofaer Global MBA Program? Visit www.inte...
Feb 07, 2024•26 min•Ep. 48
Our new episode of TAU Unbound is about the science of physical anthropology, and more specifically, the role of human fossils in the process of identifying victims of the October 7th massacre. Our guest is Prof. Israel Hershkovitz, Emeritus in Anatomy and Anthropology in the School of Health Professions in the Faculty of Medicine. Here, Prof. Hershkovitz is discussing the essence of physical anthropology, as opposed to social anthropology, methodologies used in forensics, his volunteer work pos...
Feb 01, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 45
In this new episode of TAU Unbound, Ido Aharoni is hosting Dr. Oren Asman, a lawyer and Chair of Psychiatric Review Committees. Oren's academic work focuses on Bioethics and Health Law. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Nursing Department; Director of the Bioethics and Law Center at the Faculty of Medicine; and Director of the Samueli Initiative for Responsible AI (Artificial Intelligence) in Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Here, we discuss what is 'responsible Artificial Intelligence' in Medicine...
Feb 01, 2024•36 min•Season 1Ep. 46
In this special episode, Ido Aharoni engages in a conversation with Prof. Tamar Herzig about the mass rape of women, and the mutilation of their bodies, during the October 7th atrocities. Prof. Herzig describes herself as a feminist historian and is shocked by the silence of some of her academic colleagues globally. She is the Konrad Adenauer Professor of Comparative European History at Tel Aviv University. She currently serves as Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Humanities, as Vice Chai...
Feb 01, 2024•34 min•Ep. 47
How do Middle East politics provide further insight into what happened on October 7 and the way the Israel-Hamas war is being fought? And how does this context help us to understand where to go from here? In this episode of The Global Connection, Maria Ellul – an international MA student at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and a member of the student-led movement @IsraelWarStory – interviews Brandon Friedman, the director of research at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. Tog...
Jan 31, 2024•26 min•Ep. 45
Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann-Mehta School of Music is one of the liveliest schools on campus, and this year the school is celebrating 20 seasons of musical performances. In this musical episode of The Global Connection, Anna Sajecki speaks with Dr. Uri Binjamin Rom, the head of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, about what makes TAU’s music school so special. Want to attend one of the events as part of this year’s music season? Visit https://tau.smarticket.co.il/ Is music your calling and pas...
Jan 17, 2024•32 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Sean Tsivian and Daniel Canosa are two students in Tel Aviv University’s International MA program in Conflict Resolution & Mediation. In this episode of The Global Connection podcast, they chat with Anna Sajecki about their experiences with the program, why there’s no such thing as absolute truth, and the lessons they’ve learned. Interested in TAU’s Conflict Resolution & Mediation program? Learn more at www.international.tau.ac.il/conflict_resolution *This episode was filmed before Octob...
Jan 10, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 31
October 7th created a massive crisis in all higher learning institutions in Israel and TAU is no exception. Close to 6000 men and women, students, faculty & administration - were called to serve in the army reserves. Most of them are still there three months later. Hundreds of students were directly affected by the massacre and its aftermath. Se veral students, children of faculty and their families were murdered in the music festival. How did TAU cope with this mega crisis? In this episode ...
Jan 04, 2024•21 min•Ep. 44
Ido Aharoni Aronoff is hosting the prolific Dr. Michael Milshtein, who is the head of the Forum for Palestinian Studies at the Moshe Dayan Center. Michael served as an advisor for Palestinian affairs to COGAT - IDF's Coordinator of Government Operations in the Territories (2015-2018), and as the head of the Palestinian arena in the IDF Intelligence Division (at the rank of lieutenant colonel). As part of his duties, he was involved in shaping Israeli policy in the Palestinian area. His expertise...
Jan 03, 2024•39 min•Ep. 43
Ido Aharoni Aronoff is hosting in the new episode Adv. Galia Feit who is a social cause lawyer and the executive director of the Law and Philanthropy Center at the Buchman Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. Galia’s encounter with philanthropy and the establishment of a philanthropy research institute is at the center of our conversation. Contrary to what most people say about the Israelis, that they are not known for their charitable contributions, the response to the atrocities of October 7...
Jan 03, 2024•25 min•Ep. 42
In this episode our host Ido Aharoni Aronoff is hosting Dr. Boaz Hameiri a Senior Lecturer and the Head of the Evens Program in Conflict Management and Mediation at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Social Studies. He also serves as a Human Development Lab researcher at the Boris Mints Institute at TAU. He received his PhD in social psychology at Tel Aviv University in 2019, and then did his Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, and ...
Jan 03, 2024•36 min•Ep. 41
Dr. Dara Barnat is head of the Division of Languages at Tel Aviv University (TAU), and author of the poetry collections Headwind Migration, In the Absence and The City I Run From: Poems of Tel Aviv. In this episode of The Global Connection, Barnat joins host Anna Sajecki to talk about her journey to Tel Aviv as an international student, discovering her poetic voice in Israel, the influence of Walt Whitman, and capturing Tel Aviv in poetry. Interested in discovering your own voice in Tel Aviv? Jo...
Jan 03, 2024•22 min•Ep. 30
Facundo Pereminksy and Joseph Kababie are two recent alumni of Tel Aviv University’s Sofaer Global MBA program who are using their training as they launch their new startup, Camino TLV. In this episode of The Global Connection podcast, the two chat with host Anna Sajecki about their move from Argentina and Mexico to Tel Aviv, their experience in the Sofaer Global MBA program, what it means to be an entrepreneur, and their vision for Camino – a new local company that offers a new community space ...
Dec 27, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Ran Tal is a documentary filmmaker and the head of the international MFA documentary film program at Tel Aviv University’s Steve Tisch School of Film and Television. In this episode of The Global Connection, Tal talks to host Anna Sajecki about his career capturing Israeli stories, how historical and individual forces have interacted to shape Israel and its meaning, and his most recent documentary films 1341 Frames of Love and War (about celebrated war photographer Micha Bar-Am) and What If? Ehu...
Dec 20, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 28
What is modernity? How has it shaped the way we live and think? In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki speaks with Dr. Yoav Fromer about a course he teaches called “Modernity and Its Discontents.” The course is one of the most popular taught through Tel Aviv University’s International BA in Liberal Arts, which this year is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. Learn more about TAU’s International BA in Liberal Arts: https://international.tau.ac.il/Liberal_Arts Keywords: moder...
Dec 13, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 27
As technology continues to change how we live, what questions should we ask? Nitzan Waisberg is a lecturer, consultant, and design thinker who served as a consulting assistant professor at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design before returning to Tel Aviv. In this episode of The Global Connection, Waisberg talks with Anna Sajecki about a course she teaches, called “Thinking Critically About Technology,” through the Innovation and Entrepreneurship track as part of TAU’s International BA i...
Dec 06, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 26
In this episode of The Global Connection, the spotlight is on social media and its relationship to the Israel-Hamas war, as well as what today’s digital platforms mean for the future of humanity. This episode features Dr. Carmel Vaisman, a digital culture researcher and associate lecturer at TAU’s Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, as well as with TAU’s Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities. The guest host is Ben Bright: an international master’s student an...
Nov 29, 2023•39 min•Ep. 25
Prof. Ehud Toledano is the former Director of TAU's Program in Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the Department of Middle East and African History. In this episode of TAU Unbound, he shares with host Ido Aharoni his take on what Israel should do next, how and when. Toledano provides a comprehensive overview of the actors in the conflict: Russia, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Syria, ISIS, PA, Turkey, KSA, USA and more. Between 2004 and 2008, Toledano served as the Director of the Graduate School ...
Nov 22, 2023•35 min•Ep. 40
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 Aviv University and conducted her post doctoral work at Harvard University. As Dean of students Lobel pr...
Nov 22, 2023•28 min•Ep. 39
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 as the head of TAU’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and its Graduate Program in Religious ...
Nov 22, 2023•30 min•Ep. 38
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 regional perspective with an emphasis on Iran and Syria. Zisser wrote extensively on the history and ...
Nov 22, 2023•33 min•Ep. 37
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 antisemitism, its historical and political contexts, and the current rise in anti-Jewish violence around...
Nov 22, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 24
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 living a life focused on building a better world, supporting Jewish community and youth, and leading with...
Nov 20, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 23
