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Lecture: “Elections in Israel Amid an Unstable Political System: What Does the Future Hold for Netanyahu’s New Government?”

June 19, 2015
On June 25, 2015, the university’s Pocitos campus hosted a lecture titled “Elections in Israel: An Unstable Political System. What Does the Future Hold for Netanyahu’s New Government?” presented by Dr. Alberto Spektorowski, professor of Political Theory and Comparative Politics at Tel Aviv University. The event was organized by the Department of Jewish Studies.


The speaker analyzed the recent elections in Israel, which have once again highlighted a fractured political system in which the possibility of forming a stable government with broad parliamentary support is virtually impossible.

Spektorowski holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana (United States). He served as a political advisor to former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, with whom he participated in the 2000 Camp David peace talks alongside Palestinian officials. He is the author of the book The Origins of Argentina's Right-Wing Revolution (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003), The Politics of Eugenics: Productionism, Population, and National Welfare (Routledge Press, 2013) and Nationalizing Islam (forthcoming, State University of New York Press). He is a visiting professor at Universidad ORT Uruguay.