18 Oct The Second Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Cultural War in Israel
Yoram Peri (Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies at the University Maryland at College Park)
Sunday, October 18, 2015 / 8:00 PM
Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Professor Yoram Peri will present a free, public lecture on “The Second Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Cultural War in Israel,” at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, October 18, in UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall (see attached). Former political advisor to the late Prime Minister, Peri is the author or editor of Generals in the Cabinet Room: How the Military Shapes Israeli Policy, The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Between Battles and Ballots: Israel Military in Politics, Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel, and Brothers at War: Rabin’s Assassination and the Cultural War in Israel. After serving as head of Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society and professor of Political Sociology and Communication at Tel Aviv University, he assumed the Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies at the University Maryland at College Park.
Sponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies.