Politics of Religion in Modern Israel

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Please join us for a public lecture “Politics of Religion in Modern Israel” by Menachem Hofnung, visiting professor from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Thursday, November 30 | 4:00 PM 
Humanities Instructional Building 137
University of California, Irvine

Menachem Hofnung is teaching at the Department of Political Science of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Hofnung was a President of the Israeli Law and Society Association (2007-2010), Chair of the International Political Science Association Research Committee on Political Finance (2006-2009), President of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) (2013-2015) and Chair of the Department of Political Science of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2015-17. Professor Hofnung has served as the Academic Director of the Joint Graduate Program in Public Policy and Law at the Hebrew University; Academic Director, The Gilo Center for Democracy and Civic Education. Menachem Hofnung served as member of the National Commission on Campaign Finance Reform (Levin Commission, 2000, and was a member of the National Commission on the Structure of Governmental Administration in Israel (Magidor Commission, 2006). Menachem Hofnung’s research covers national security and civil liberties, constitutional politics and comparative political finance. Professor Hofnung has served in the Israeli Defense forces as a combat officer and retired from reserve duty at the rank of Major.   

Professor Hofnung also taught at the University of California at Berkeley and Irvine, San Francisco State University, the University of Florida at Gainesville, Moscow State University and was a Research Fellow at the Center for Law and Society at the University of California at Berkeley and Sydney University, Australia.

Questions: Please contact Erica Yun at erica.yun@uci.edu or 949.824.7141

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