2014-2015

Fall 2014


History of Modern Israel

History 100M

Prof. Yuval Ben-Bassat, Senior Lecturer of History of the Middle East, University of Haifa

Israel Institute Visiting Fellow


Jewish Nightlife: Poetry, Music and Ritual Performance from Renaissance Italy to Contemporary Israel

MUSIC 74/139

Dr. Francesco Spagnolo,Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley

Prof. Yair Harel, Schusterman Artist-in-Residence, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley


Spring 2015

Comparative Constitutional Law: The Case of Israel 

Legal Studies 174
Avishai Benish, Lecturer, The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Late Ottoman and Mandatory Jerusalem

History 103F

Prof. Yuval Ben-Bassat, Senior Lecturer of History of the Middle East, University of Haifa
Israel Institute Visiting Fellow


Sociology of Israeli Society

Sociology 179

Prof. Shira Offer, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University


Holocaust History, Memory, and Representation

Jewish Studies 39K

Prof. Rebecca Golbert, Executive Director, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies


Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Israel

Undergraduate Business 98/198 DeCal

Co-Facilitators: Nir Maoz and Jackson Block, Undergraduate Fellows, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies.
Faculty Sponsor: Steve Tadelis, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley


Graduate Courses

Transboundary Water Conflict Resolution: The Israeli-Arab Case

College of Natural Resources, Graduate Program

Prof. Itay Fischhendler, Senior Lecturer of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Israeli Constitutional Cases Research Group

Law 298

Prof. Ori Aronson, Assistant Professor, Bar-Ilan Faculty of Law