Past Israel Program Events

Featured Past Events

Climate Resilience Conference

More than 200 academics and political leaders met for “Climate Resilience and Local Governmental Policy: Lessons from Los Angeles and Tel Aviv,” a groundbreaking conference organized by CDDRL's Visiting Fellows in Israel Studies program.

Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring Yossi Klein Halevi

The discussion is moderated by Professor Larry Diamond, in conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. Q&A with the audience is moderated by Amichai Magen, FSI's inaugural Visiting Fellow in

Reflections on Israel at 75

Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Featuring a discussion on Israel’s many notable achievements as well as the challenges to its democratic nature.

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Israel Insights Webinar with Vivian Bercovici — From Canadian Ambassador to Israeli Podcaster: Life in State of Tel-Aviv and Beyond

Wednesday, November 5, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (Pacific)

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Ambassador Kerim Uras — The Israel-Syria-Turkey Triangle: Where Do We Go From Here?

Monday, November 3, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)

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Book Launch | Explaining Israel: The Jewish State, the Middle East, and America, by Peter Berkowitz

Wednesday, October 29, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM (Pacific)

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Featured Past Events

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Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring Judea Pearl

Israel Insights Webinar with Oded Ailam — Hamas, Israel, and the West: Why This Conflict Matters Far Beyond Gaza

Global Trends and Geopolitics in 2026: A Look Ahead

Israel Insights Webinar with Karnit Flug — The Israeli Economy: Quo Vadis?

Israel Insights Webinar with Sima Shine & Raz Zimmt — The Israel-Iran Conflict: What's Next?

Book Talk with Ambassador Dennis Ross — Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Lead in a Multipolar World

Israel Insights Webinar with Emmanuel Navon — Understanding Israel’s Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and Possible Futures

Israel Insights Webinar with Ksenia Svetlova — Israel and the Multipolar World: Lessons from Ukraine, Gaza, and Beyond

Israel Insights Webinar with Vivian Bercovici — From Canadian Ambassador to Israeli Podcaster: Life in State of Tel-Aviv and Beyond

Ambassador Kerim Uras — The Israel-Syria-Turkey Triangle: Where Do We Go From Here?

Book Launch | Explaining Israel: The Jewish State, the Middle East, and America, by Peter Berkowitz

Israel Insights Webinar with Azar Gat — What Is The Problem With “The Palestinian Problem”?

Tragedy, Triumph, or Both? Israel After Two Years of War — Webinar With Nadav Eyal

Climate Resilience and Local Governmental Policy: Lessons from Los Angeles and Tel Aviv

Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Featuring Amir Tibon

Order Contestation in the Middle East: Lebanon Between Iran and Israel

Yoav Heller — The Fourth Quarter: What Will Israel Look Like in 2048?

The Art of Diplomacy with Stuart Eizenstat

Ari Shavit — Existential War: From Catastrophe, to Victory, to Revival

Einat Wilf — Twenty-First Century Zionism: Idea Foundations for Israel After October 7th

Tzipi Livni | Israel at the Crossroads: Where Do We Go From Here?

Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Featuring Yossi Klein Halevi

Environmental Lessons and Implications of the Gaza War

Film Screening | GOLDA, starring Helen Mirren

Tunnel Warfare: Grappling with the Legal and Military Challenges of Subterranean Combat