The Israel-Arab Studies Program at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in cooperation with Stand With Us and Queens College Hillel presents Israel's internal challenges: A Shabbat of discussion and thought with Mordechai Kedar, PhD and Irwin J. (Yitzchak) Mansdorf, PhD Friday evening, March 2nd Tribalism: a framework for understanding interaction between peoples of the Middle East The reality of the Middle East, in both Israel and the Arab world, is that "tribes" play an important and sometimes determining role in how societies are formed and governed. Family and religious ties are often more important than national ties. Hear how understanding these forces both within and outside of Israel and can help forge conditions that could promote stability and coexistence. Presentation by Drs. Kedar and Mansdorf Shabbat afternoon, March 3rd Israel: is it really a "Jewish" democracy? Israel's declaration of independence speaks of "equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespectiv e of religion, race or sex." It also clearly speaks of Israel as a "Jewish" state. How is the balance between being "Jewish" and "democratic" being met today in Israel? What are the challenges involved in providing equal rights for all in a "Jewish" state where 20% of the population is Arab and hundreds of thousands of others are either not Jewish or not considered Jewish by the official rabbinate? Can Israel maintain itself as a liberal democracy and maintain its Jewish identity? Join in a discussion that will raise these issues and present the conflicts that Israel is facing internally as it continues to define itself nearly 65 years after the formal declaration of the Jewish state. A student led discussion with Drs. Kedar and Mansdorf Mordechai Kedar, PhD is a well-known expert on Arab affairs and guest commentator on both Israeli and Arab media outlets, including BBC Arabic and Al-Jazeera. He is on the faculty of the Begin-Sadat Center of Bar Ilan University and served for 25 years in the intelligence division of the IDF. Irwin J. (Yitzchak) Mansdorf, PhD directs the Israel-Arab Studies Program and political psychology research at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He has researched and published on behavioral aspects of politics as well as post-traumatic stress, including several studies conducted while serving in the Gulf War of 1991, the 2006 Lebanon War and during the Israel-Palestinian disturbances that began in 2000. This program made possible with the assistance of the Avi Chai foundation

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The Israel-Arab Studies Program at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairsin cooperation with Stand With Us and Queens College Hillel

presents

Israel's internal challenges:A Shabbat of discussion and thought

with Mordechai Kedar, PhD and Irwin J. (Yitzchak) Mansdorf, PhD

Friday evening, March 2nd

Tribalism: a framework for understanding interaction between peoples of the MiddleEast

The reality of the Middle East, in both Israel and the Arab world, is that "tribes" play an important andsometimes determining role in how societies are formed and governed. Family and religious ties areoften more important than national ties. Hear how understanding these forces both within and outsideof Israel and can help forge conditions that could promote stability and coexistence.

Presentation by Drs. Kedar and Mansdorf

Shabbat afternoon, March 3rd Israel: is it really a "Jewish" democracy?

Israel's declaration of independence speaks of "equality of social and political rights to all itsinhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex." It also clearly speaks of Israel as a "Jewish" state.How is the balance between being "Jewish" and "democratic" being met today in Israel? What are thechallenges involved in providing equal rights for all in a "Jewish" state where 20% of the population isArab and hundreds of thousands of others are either not Jewish or not considered Jewish by theofficial rabbinate? Can Israel maintain itself as a liberal democracy and maintain its Jewish identity?Join in a discussion that will raise these issues and present the conflicts that Israel is facing internallyas it continues to define itself nearly 65 years after the formal declaration of the Jewish state.

A student led discussion with Drs. Kedar and Mansdorf

Mordechai Kedar, PhD is a well-known expert on Arab affairs and guest commentator on bothIsraeli and Arab media outlets, including BBC Arabic and Al-Jazeera. He is on the faculty of the

Begin-Sadat Center of Bar Ilan University and served for 25 years in the intelligence division of the IDF.

Irwin J. (Yitzchak) Mansdorf, PhD directs the Israel-Arab Studies Program and politicalpsychology research at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He has researched andpublished on behavioral aspects of politics as well as post-traumatic stress, including severalstudies conducted while serving in the Gulf War of 1991, the 2006 Lebanon War and during the

Israel-Palestinian disturbances that began in 2000.

This program made possible with the assistance of the Avi Chai foundation