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Israel studies

Pro-Israel demonstrators march across Stanford University in Palo Alto on May 12, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inBay Area

Stanford’s Israel studies program becomes permanent after three-year pilot

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 21, 2025January 6, 2026

After a three-year pilot, Stanford University’s Israel studies program became permanent with a major endowment from the Koum Family Foundation, Stanford announced on Nov. 18.  The new Jan Koum Israel […]

Yehuda Kurtzer (left), president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, speaks alongside Ken Bamberger, a Cal law professor and faculty co-director of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, at UC Berkeley on April 4. (Photo/Courtesy Laura Turbow)
Posted inBay Area

UC Berkeley undergrads can add an Israel studies minor starting this fall

by Ryan Torok June 11, 2024June 11, 2024
Students enjoying a UC Berkeley Hillel event in 2019. (Photo/File)
Posted inBay Area

Campus news: Funding boost for Berkeley Hillel, Israeli scholar at Stanford as visiting fellow

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 18, 2022May 18, 2022
Political science professor Ron Hassner will be UC Berkeley's first endowed chair in Israel Studies.
Posted inNews

A $5 million gift will create UC Berkeley’s first endowed Israel studies chair

by Dan Pine May 2, 2019May 17, 2019
Hebrew University professor Galia Golan poses a question at the Association for Israel Studies meeting at UC Berkeley on June 25. (Photo/Laura Turbow)
Posted inBay Area, Israel, News

Israel Studies confab comes to UC Berkeley

by Sue Fishkoff June 26, 2018July 10, 2018
campus clock tower
Posted inBay Area, News

UC Berkeley to host Association for Israel Studies conference for first time

by J. Staff June 20, 2018June 21, 2018

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