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.