Please join us for the third Israel Studies Colloquium of the Fall 2017 semester.  We welcome Gayil Talshir, the 2017-2018 Israel Institute Visiting Professor at San Jose State University.  She is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she directs the Center for Advanced Public Policy Makers.

Prof. Talshir’s research focuses on the crisis of legitimation of advanced democracies. She is currently involved in an international project on Democracy and Inequality where she is working on a report on the state of Israeli democracy for the Shasha Center for Strategic Studies.

Her talk is entitled: “Israeli Democracy in Crisis? Between Governability and Governance.”

Please join us in the Goldberg Room (297 Boalt Hall), at 12:15pm, on Thursday, November 9.  We look forward to seeing you there. Please share this talk with your colleagues and graduate students.  We welcome your RSVP by email to Rebecca Golbert at rlgolbert@law.berkeley.edu so we can anticipate the number of lunches to order.