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 some of the international projects The Lowy International School is supporting: www.international.tau.ac...
Nov 08, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 22
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 talks to Gil-Shuster about his experience running The Ask Project, and what keeps him going after more t...
Nov 01, 2023•34 min•Ep. 21
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 overall significance for cancer research and treatments. Interested in cancer research? Learn more about T...
Oct 30, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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 actions of the regions main “actors, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel. Formerly, he was the Head ...
Oct 22, 2023•32 min•Ep. 36
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 1998 he was awarded the Diploma in Human Rights from the Academy of European Law, European Universit...
Oct 22, 2023•30 min•Ep. 35
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 government policies, consumer behavior and firm actions contribute to market outcomes in the food, automob...
Oct 22, 2023•28 min•Ep. 34
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 the community-based approach to learning and studied "Leveraging opportunities for self-regulated l...
Oct 22, 2023•30 min•Ep. 33
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 Security at Tel Aviv University, one of the driving forces behind the annual Cyber Week. In this co...
Oct 22, 2023•43 min•Ep. 32
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 of her career, her involvement in the mentoring of young scientists and her ground breaking scientif...
Oct 22, 2023•26 min•Ep. 31
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 algorithms that will improve practical performance. Here Dr. Cohen discusses with host Ido Aharoni ...
Oct 22, 2023•30 min•Ep. 30
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 Prof. Rosen discusses with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff effective ways to prevent smoking in general and in...
Oct 22, 2023•28 min•Ep. 29
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 uses of big data analysis and its potential to improve our lives.
Oct 22, 2023•43 min•Ep. 22
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 unemployment. Prof. Yashiv is a Professor at The Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University and ...
Oct 22, 2023•38 min•Ep. 27
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 TAU International Task Force on Instagram or TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/israelwarstory https...
Oct 22, 2023•24 min•Ep. 19
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 writing between Israel and the world, the meaning of place in literature, representing Israel’s Mizrahi ...
Oct 22, 2023•37 min•Ep. 18
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 entrepreneurship in the Startup Nation, as well as the TAU entrepreneurship advantage. Interested in wo...
Oct 22, 2023•33 min•Ep. 18
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 Yiddish continues to be so central to strong multicultural societies today (including in Israel); and...
Sep 27, 2023•32 min•Ep. 16
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 experience of going abroad for a semester. Want to learn more about exchange programs at TAU? Visit www....
Sep 20, 2023•28 min•Ep. 15
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 rights and law? Learn more about the International Law & Human Rights specialization as part of TAU...
Sep 12, 2023•33 min•Ep. 14
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 the similarities and differences between bats all around the world. Are you an International researc...
Sep 06, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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 in Tel Aviv University’s Model United Nations? Learn more at www.taumun.com...
Aug 23, 2023•30 min•Ep. 12
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 Global Connection host Dr. Anna Sajecki to chat about this next generation of filmmakers and how to...
Aug 16, 2023•22 min•Ep. 11
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.
Aug 02, 2023•31 min
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 Connection host Anna Sajecki to talk about how Hebrew as a language and literature has evolved and s...
Jul 26, 2023•33 min•Ep. 9
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 more. Learn more about the program: www.international.tau.ac.il/international_llm law, law students, ...
Jul 19, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 today, and what steps we can all take to reduce our cyber risk.
Jul 12, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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 Intelligence (AI), the current use and development of AI technologies, and the risks and challenges p...
Jul 05, 2023•34 min•Ep. 5
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 Theatre Histories is a project led by Lehavi and Abeliovich, along with Professor Peter Marx from the Un...
Jul 05, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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 environment and place, and a new graduate program in climate change being launched at Tel Aviv Univer...
Jul 05, 2023•32 min•Ep. 4
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.
Jun 20, 2023•46 min•Ep. 3
