Harry and Blanche Posen Memorial Lectures 2014

May 12 & 14, 2014.

ISRAEL AND ITS NEIGHBOURS FACING THE UPHEAVAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

Professor Gabi Ben-Dor, University of Haifa, National Defense College.
Monday, May 12, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.

The Middle East is undergoing massive changes, the likes of which it has not witnessed for a century.

New realities are being created by popular uprisings, regime changes, civil wars, countries imploding and new developments in the global balance of power.

As a result,  Israel faces new challenges, threats and dangers, but it also encounters new opportunities.  This is a period of transition, calling for  new, creative and imaginative solutions to problem new and old alike.

THE THIRD NETANYAHU GOVERNMENT FACING A NEW ISRAEL.

Professor Gabi Ben-Dor, University of Haifa, National Defense College.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.

Netanyahu has now been Prime Minister three times.  His newest government has just completed its first year in office.  It is based on a very different coalition from previous ones, and it has to deal not only with a tumultuous region in transition, but also with a changing reality in Israeli society, with new cleavages, new generations claiming their share in the wealth of the nation and demands for ideological change which threatens the old status quo.

Yet the present government faces now a major watershed, which once again threatens the very existence of the ruling coalition.

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