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Prof. Eran Yashiv, The Eitan Berglas School of Economics

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 earned his other degrees from LSE (London School of Economics and UCL (University College London). His research spans a number of themes, including labor market frictions in business cycles, asset pricing, economic and public health epidemic management policy, and minorities and migration issues.
He has been working on epidemic management issues from an economics and public health perspective: from April 2020 collaborating with system biologists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and from September 2022 scientists at Georgia Tech.
Another line of research he pursues pertains to the labor market of Palestinian Arabs in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. The latter papers have been published in academic journals and as policy papers.
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Prof. Eyal Zisser, Vice Rector of Tel Aviv University, Department of Middle Eastern and African HistoryThis 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 the modern politics of Syria and Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Among his books: Assad’s Syria at a Crossroads (Tel Aviv, 1999); Asad’s Legacy – Syria in Transition (New York, 2000); Lebanon: the Challenge of Independence (London, 2000); Faces of Syria (Tel Aviv, 2003) Commanding Syria, Bashar al-Asad’s First years in Power (London, 2006); The Bleeding Cedar (Tel Aviv, 2009), Syria :Protest, Revolution, Civil War (Tel Aviv, 2014). He received his PhD from Tel Aviv University. He was a visiting professor in Cornell University and a visiting research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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Prof. Uriya Shavit, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities

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 Studies. Since 2021, Shavit serves as head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, as well as co-head of the Shandong-Tel Aviv Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. Shavit also worked as a senior staff writer and editor for Haaretz and other Israeli newspapers and authored novels and books for young readers. He specializes in the study of contemporary Islamic law, theology, and politics, as well as the study of Muslim minorities in the West.

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Udi Aharoni, the longstanding CEO and academic Director of Lahav executive education at Tel Aviv University’s Coller School of Management, is our guest in this new episode of TAU Unbound.
Host Ido Aharoni Aronoff is engaging in a lively conversation about how to communicate Israel’s unique ingredients that are largely responsible for the creation of the country’s innovation eco-system.
Udi runs Lahav executive education, Coller’s executive management educational unit, which attracts executives from throughout the country as well from overseas.
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Dr. Miri TalmonIn 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 Kishon and his generation of Israeli humorists?
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Dr. Irit Back, Head of the Inter-University program of African StudiesIn 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 Islam, conflicts resolution and regional organizations, primarily in the Horn of Africa and West Africa.
Here we discuss the relevance of the Holocaust to the African narrative, cultural sensitivity, Golda Meir’s vision regarding Africa and Dr. Back’s own fascination with Africa. Join us for this important discussion and share if you like
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Prof. Ehud Toledano, Former Director of TAU's Program in Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the Department of Middle East and African History.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 of History, and from 2005 to 2009, he was a member of the University Board of Directors, representing the University Senate. He received his PhD from Princeton University and conducted extensive research in Istanbul, London, and Paris. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the American Research Center in Cairo, Egypt between 1979 and 1981, a Senior Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford (1986/7), a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (1993/4), and Visiting Professor at UCLA (between 1999 and 2001).

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Prof. Aeyal Gross, Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of LawProf. 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 University Institute, in Florence. He has also served as a member of the Board of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and a founding member of TAU’s LGBT & Queer Studies Forum. He also contributes to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz. In this episode of TAU Unbound he discusses with host Ido Aharoni Aronoff various legal scenarios for Israel’l political system.

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Prof. Itai Ater
Coller School of Management

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, automobile and real-estate markets.

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Dr. Idit Adler, a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Math, Science and Technology at Constantiner School of EducationDr. 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 learning in the science classroom”. Here she elaborates on the Difference Between Education and Learning and points to the centrality of education in bridging social and economic inequalities.

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