11: Israel: Can democracy exist without peace?
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Hauptschule
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in englischer SpracheThe State of Israel is celebrating its 70th birthday this year. To mark this moment, a human rights lawyer, a former minister of intelligence, and a researcher of populism and extremism will address a controversial question: how can democracy based on the rule of law be guaranteed as long as there is no peace between Israel and Palestine?
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Adi KANTOR
Research Associate, INSS - The Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv
| Adi Kantor is a research associate in the Europe Research Program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv. Her research fields are: Europe-Israel relations, Germany, modern Antisemitism, populism, the radical right, trauma and memory. She holds an M.A. from the Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a B.A. in Political Science and in the Interdisciplinary Program (with focus on German Studies) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While in Germany she studied at the Universities of Freiburg and Berlin. Ms. Kantor worked at the Israeli Embassy in Berlin and at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) on the project Israel: Regional and Global Conflicts, Domestic and Foreign Policy, and National Security. | |
| Ms. Kantor will pursue her PhD at the Department of Counseling and Human Development at the University of Haifa focusing on trauma, resilience and inter-generational transmission among German and Jewish/Israeli families after 1945. |
Dan MERIDOR
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence, Israel, Jerusalem
| 1988-1992 | Minister of Justice, Government of Israel, Jerusalem |
| 1996-1997 | Minister of Finance, Government of Israel, Jerusalem |
| 1999-2001 | Chairman of Foreign Affairs and Defence, Knesset Committee |
| 2001-2003 | Minister for Strategic Affairs, Government of Israel, Jerusalem |
| 2003-2006 | Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute, Jerusalem |
| 2004-2006 | Chairman of the Committee on Israel's Defence Doctrine |
| 2003-2008 | Chairman, Jerusalem Foundation |
| 2006-2009 | Deputy Chairman of the Board, INSS- The Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv-Jaffa |
| 2009-2013 | Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence, Government of Israel, Jerusalem |
Talia SASSON
Board Member and Chair of the International Council, NIF - New Israel Fund, Jerusalem
| Attorney Talia Sasson, was the President of the New Israel Fund (NIF) and Chair of it's board (2015-2018). Now she is the co -chair of the international Council of NIF. She also serves on the public councils of numerous peace and human rights organizations. In 2009, she ran for the Knesset as representative of The New Movement & Meretz. From 2004 to 2010, Mrs. Sasson taught a course on "Defending Israel's Democracy through Law" at Tel-Aviv University's Law Faculty. At the request of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, from August 2004 to March 2005, Mrs. Sasson served as a special legal advisor for the government. In that capacity she authored the Sasson Report on illegal outposts and law enforcement on Israelis in the West Bank. From 1979 to February 2004 she worked in the State Attorney’s office. From 1989 to 1993 she headed the Civil Department in the Office of the District Attorney of Jerusalem. From 1996 to 2004, she headed the Special Tasks Division of the State Attorney’s office. In this role, she represented the government of Israel before the Supreme Court for thirteen years in civil, criminal, constitutional and administrative cases and was also involved in various security and military issues. Mrs. Sasson is the author of At the Edge of the Abyss: Is the victory of the settlements the end of Israeli democracy? which was published in 2015. |
Sarah WILDMAN
Deputy Editor, Foreign Policy, Washington, D.C.
| Sarah Wildman is a deputy editor at Foreign Policy and author of Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind. She received the 2010 German Marshall Fund’s Peter R. Weitz Prize for European coverage. Long a regular contributor to the New York Times, Slate, and the New Yorker online, she served as global identities writer at Vox. Wildman has been a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Fellow (Jerusalem & Paris); Arthur F. Burns fellow in Berlin; Milena Jesenska Fellow in Vienna; and Pew Fellow in International Journalism in Paris. A former New Republic staffer, Wildman also worked for the Advocate magazine. She was the Barach nonfiction fellow at Wesleyan University (2014) and a Dart Center fellow at Columbia School of Journalism (2015). |
