Aims and Means: Conversations about Research

Adam Raz sat down for a talk with Dr. Yair Yassan about his book “Usual Suspects: Minorities, Police, and Citizenship in Israel,” which he co-authored with Prof. Guy Ben-Porat. Adam and Yair look at the broader political and social context for the “special treatment” minorities received from… Read more

This episode features film director Danel Elpeleg, speaking about her new film, The Governor. Awarded Best Documentary at the Jerusalem Film Festival, the film moves between Israel’s Military Rule over its Palestinian citizens (1948-1966) and her own family secrets, revolving around her grandfather, Zvi Elpeleg, who served as military governor… Read more

Akevot’s Adam Raz talks with Prof. Amos Goldberg, whose new book, (Vezacharta, Resling Publishing House, in Hebrew) examines the ways we remember the Holocaust and the Nakba. Amos works on questions of violence and memory, and the conversation moves between history and current events, between peacemaking and the ongoing war,… Read more

A conversation with Ayelet Heller, director of the film The 1957 Transcripts, which looks at the Kafr Qasim massacre. Ayelet speaks about the process that went into making the film, which is based on thousands of pages of court transcripts from the trial of the police officers who participated in… Read more

Adam Raz speaks with director Neta Shoshani about her documentary film, 1948: Remember, Remember Not. Israel’s Minister of Communications ordered the country’s public broadcaster to censor the film before it ever aired on TV. In the conversation with Neta, recorded before October 7, she speaks about her quest to understand… Read more

In this episode, Adam Raz speaks to Dr. Guy Laron, who says the events leading up to October 7 must also be understood in the context of a conflict between powers revolving around energy issues. Read more

A conversation with Linguist Prof. Idan Laundau, writer of popular blog Lo Lamoot Tipesh (Don’t Die Stupid). A talk about writing, reading and current events that have commenced with a sense of despair, continued via Orwell and Chomski, and concluded with some hope. Read more

A conversation with adv. Michael Sfard, an expert on International Law and Occupation Law. Adam Raz and Michael discuss Israel’s dual relationships with International Law, the radicalization of public discourse in Israel since October 7 and its impact on combat, and the changes to Israeli society’s character and mentality, as… Read more

In this episode, historian, Dr. Omri Shafer Raviv talks about his research on the Israeli administration in the territories occupied in 1967. How has Israel’s system of ongoing control over the territories it occupies and the Palestinians living in them evolve and take shape? When did the government realize… Read more

In this episode, historian Dr. Leena Dallasheh talks about her research on the city of Nazareth. Why did Nazareth become a Palestinian city despite itself after 1948? And how does the fact that Israel is a surveillance state benefit those researching Palestinian society?… Read more

In this episode, Dr. Yael Berda from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University, speaks to Adam Raz about her research, which began back when she was a lawyer representing Palestinians in military courts. How do the bureaucratic mechanisms of the occupation work, and how is… Read more

In episode two, historian Benny Morris discusses what he thinks remains to be researched about 1948 and what has changed in terms of access to archival materials in Israel. Morris also shares his opinion about the often-made charge that he had changed his position… Read more

In episode one, historian Dr. Shay Hazkani discusses his new book, which focuses on the 1948 war as experienced by those who participated in it and how it has shaped the conflict and continues to shape it today. Read more