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The Global Connection

You’ve Got a Friend in Me
Sharon Fraenkel, executive director of Canadian Friends of Tel Aviv University (CFTAU) for Ottawa, Quebec and Atlantic Canada

Startup Nation – Looking Back, Looking Forward
Nimrod Cohen, the managing partner and co-founder of TAU Ventures

From the Arab Uprisings to the October 7 War
Dr. Brandon Friedman, the director of research at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies

Celebrating 20 Years of Musical Concerts
Dr. Uri Binjamin Rom, the head of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music,

Managing and Resolving Conflict
Sean Tsivian and Daniel Canosa are two students in Tel Aviv University’s International MA program in Conflict Resolution & Mediation

Discovering a Literary Voice in Tel Aviv
Dr. Dara Barnat is head of the Division of Languages at Tel Aviv University

The Road to Entrepreneurship – From Latin America to Startup Nation
Facundo Pereminksy and Joseph Kababie are two recent alumni of Tel Aviv University’s Sofaer Global MBA program

Israel and the Forces of History
Ran Tal, a documentary filmmaker and the head of the international MFA documentary film program at Tel Aviv University’s Steve Tisch School of Film and Television

What It Means to Be Modern
Dr. Yoav Fromer is the head of the Center for the Study of the United States at Tel Aviv University and a fellow in the School of Government and Diplomacy.

Thinking Critically About Technology
Nitzan Waisberg is a lecturer, consultant and design thinker

Social Media and the Israel-Hamas War
Dr. Carmel Vaisman, a digital culture researcher and associate lecturer at TAU’s Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas

To Fight Antisemitism, We Must Understand It
Prof. Havi Dreifuss, the head of the Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research

New Leadership Program for Jewish Students
Dr Ronen Hoffman, politician and diplomat.

Sensing Earth from Space
Professor Eyal Ben-Dor is from the Department of Geophysics at Tel Aviv University

What Palestinians and Israelis Really Think
Corey Gil-Shuster is the Director of the International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation at Tel Aviv University

The Cancer Cells That Don’t Behave How You Think
Dr. Yaara Oren is a cancer researcher at Tel Aviv University

The TAU International Students Fighting Terrorism and Making a Difference
Dr. Yoav Fromer, the head of Tel Aviv University’s Center for US Studies, interviews TAU international students Ari Spielman and Maria Ellul

What is Israel’s Entrepreneurship Secret?
Nimrod Cohen, the managing partner and co-founder of TAU Ventures

Ayelet Tsabari on the Art of Representing Israel and the World
Ayelet Tsabari an award-winning author of short-story collection, teaches a prose workshop at Tel Aviv University

There Can Be No Democracy Without Yiddish
Prof. Justin Cammy, chair of the programs in World Literatures and Jewish Studies at Smith College in the United States

The Global Adventure of Going on Exchange
Noa Beit On and Sagi Yehudaie, students

On Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
Prof. Daphna Hacker, sociologist, a full professor in TAU’s gender studies program and in the Buchmann Faculty of Law

The International Life of Bats
Dr. Arjan Boonman, The Bat Lab for Neuro-Ecology at Tel Aviv University (TAU).

Behind the Scenes of Global Diplomacy at TAU
President Amit Gershon and Board Member Mary Absawy, TAU’s Model UN Society

Mindfulness and Madness in Today’s Global Film Industry
Lawrence Kasanoff, American filmmaker
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