BGU Profs Featured in The Tel Aviv Review Podcast
BGU Profs Featured in The Tel Aviv Review Podcast
December 19, 2014
Israel Studies, Culture & Jewish Thought
TLV1 — The most recent edition of The Tel Aviv Review on TLV1 radio featured two BGU professors speaking about changing aspects of Israeli society.
Prof. Nathan Uriely, chair of the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management in BGU’s Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, describes how Israeli tourists in the Sinai peninsula, together with their Egyptian hosts, created a “bubble of serenity” that no longer exists.
It was broken as a result of terror attacks over in the past decade and following the political unrest in Egypt since Hosni Mubarak’s fall from power.
Prof. Uriely discusses the potential, or lack there of, of tourism in the Sinai increasing the prospects of peace in the “real world” of the Middle East.
Prof. Ben-Porat, lecturer in BGU’s Department of Public Policy and Administration in the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, is the author of Between State and Synagogue – The Secularization of Contemporary Israel.
Prof. Ben-Porat talks about the process of “secularization through the back door” that has been witnessed in Israel in recent years.
This includes in areas such as circumventing the religious establishment to have civil marriage, the increased normalcy of shopping on the Sabbath, and the availability non-Kosher food.
Listen to the full podcast on the TLV website >>
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