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Watch – Eye for Zion Tzofia Conference

Opening Session

Chair: Dr. Amos Geula, Herzog Academic College

  1. The Two Pillars of Longing for Zion: Ramban and Rihal – Writer Rabbi Chaim SabatoRosh Yeshiva of Birkat Moshe, Ma’ale Adumim – Click here for the video
  2. Aliyah and Elites – Prof. Moshe Idel – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Click here for the video
  3. Greetings – Rabbi Prof. Yehuda Brandes – President of Herzog Academic College –Click here for the video
  4. Greetings – Prof. Yitzhak Shai – Vice President and Dean for Research and Development, Ariel University – Click here for the video

 

Session 1: Vision and Fulfillment in Recent Generations

Chair: Dr. Asael Abelman, Herzog Academic College and Shalem Academic Center

  1. Eretz Yisrael is not – Rav Kook reads in Igrot Tzafon to R. Hirsch  – Dr. Yochai Ben Gedaliah – The Central Archive for the History of the Jewish People – Click here for the video
  2. “Seeing what is beyond the mountain”: Rachel Savorai’s trips as a mirror of the yearning of the Sabra generation for Eretz Yisrael – Dr. Tami Kaminsky – Herzog Academic College – Click here for the video
  3. The Land of Israel in the Eyes of the Ultra-Orthodox Survivors – Refuge or Danger?  – Dr. Michal Shaul – Herzog Academic College – Click here for the video
  4. The Pioneers’ Longing for the Land of Israel – A Cinematic Expression – Prof. Ariel Feldstein – Ariel University – Click here for the video

Session 2: The Land of Israel in Jewish Thought in the Middle Ages

Chair: Prof. Zeev Harvey, Hebrew University

  1. The Motive for Avraham and Terach’s Exodus to Eretz Yisrael – Changes in the Ramban’s Interpretation Over the Years – Dr. Yosef Marcus – Herzog Academic College – Click here for the video
  2. Ramban and the Land of Israel: Historiographic Image and Textual Reality – Prof. Shalem Yahalom – Ariel University – Click here for the video
  3. Rihal’s Aliyah to the Land of Israel – The Personal Dimension and the Ideological Polemic – Dr. Yossi Marciano – Herzog Academic College – Click here for the video
  4. The Land of Israel in the Teachings of Rabbi Saadia Gaon and Ya’akov Al-Karkasani – Prof. Aviram Ravitzky – Ariel University – Click here for the video

Session 3: And from the countries of their gathering from the east and the west – immigration to the land from Africa and Asia

Chair: Dr. Avi Pikar, Bar-Ilan University

  1. Love of Zion and Zionism among the Jews of Afghanistan – Mr. Ben-Zion Yehoshua-Raz – Writer and researcher of Israeli communities in Central Asia – Click here for the video

  2. Changes in the leadership of Ethiopian Jews in the process of immigration through Sudan – Adv. Shai Yasu – Ariel University – Click here for the video
  3. Longing for the Land of Israel, Zionism and Aliyah among North African Jews in the 20th Century – Dr. Avi Picard – Bar-Ilan University –  Click here for the video

Session 4: The Longing for the Land of Israel in Poetry and Piyyut

Chair: Prof. Ephraim Hazan, Bar Ilan University and Orot College

  1. A Feminine Longing for Zion – A Dream and Its Breaking – Through the Poetry of the Poet Esther Shekalim – Dr. Rachel Ofer – Herzog Academic College and Efrata College – Click here for the video
  2. From the Land of Mountains and Valleys to the Land of Hefetz – The Land of Israel in the Piyyutei Yani and the Later Paytanim – Prof. Eden Hacohen – Herzog Academic College – Click here for the video

  3. Historical Geography of the Song of Songs: An Analysis Using Archaeological and Historical Tools – Dr. Gabi Barkai – Bar-Ilan University – Click here for the video

Session 5: The Land of Israel in the Ottoman Region - A Session in Honor of Prof. Leah Makovetsky

Chair: Prof. Yaron Harel, Bar Ilan University

  1. Comments – Prof. Leah Makovetsky – Ariel University – Click here for the video
  2. Center or periphery? Connections between the Jews of Istanbul and Salonika and the Jews of Jerusalem and Safed in the 16th-17th centuries – Prof. Joseph Hecker – The Hebrew University – Click here for the video
  3. Another look at the Committee of Clerks of the Land of Israel in ConstantinopleProf. Yaron Ben Naeh – The Hebrew University – Click here for the video
  4. On the Establishment of the Zionist Education System in Damascus on the Eve of World War I – Prof. Yaron Harel – Bar-Ilan University – Click here for the video

Session 6: The Land of Israel in Jewish Thought in the Modern Era

Chair: Prof. Daniel Reiser, Herzog Academic College

  1. Preparing for Balfour: Early Religious Zionist Thinkers in America – Prof. Gershon Greenberg – American University of Washington – Click here for the video
  2. The Zionist Rabbinate’s Response to the Disengagement – Between the Sanctity of Eretz Yisrael as an Instrumental and an Ontological – Dr. Hannah Riklin – Herzog Academic College – Click here for the video
  3. The Land of Israel in Rabbi Shagar’s Vision of Redemption – Between Realism and Mysticism – Dr. Itamar Brenner – Herzog Academic College – Click here for the video
  4. The Place of the Land of Israel in the Torah and Life of Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad (the Ben Ish Chai) – Dr. Ron Wax – Herzog Academic College –Click here for the video

Session 7: Expressions of Longing for the Land of Israel - Shaddarim, Gvirim and Burial in Israel

Chair: Prof. Yosef Hecker, Hebrew University

  1. The Greats of Constantinople in the Seventeenth Century – Politics and Economics –Prof. Leah Makovetsky – Ariel University – Click here for the video
  2. The Ashkenazi community in Amsterdam and its connection to Eretz Yisrael in the last generation before emancipation – Prof. Assaf Yedidya – Ariel University and Efrata College – Click here for the video
  3. The Virtue of Burial in Safed – A Study of Medieval Sources – Dr. Eyal Dodson – Herzog Academic College – Click here for the video

Session 8: Return to the Land of Israel during the Return to Zion and the Second Temple

Chair: Prof. Oren Ackerman, Ariel University

  1. “Speak of the heart of Jerusalem” – Isaiah’s prophecies of consolation as a reflection of the depletion of faith of the Jews of Babylonia. – Rabbi Dr. Benny Lau – Head of Project 929 – Click here for the video
  2. Shabbath observance and the Land of Israel: A study of the book of Nehemiah – Prof. Nehemia Polan – Hebrew College Boston – Click here for the video
  3. The Archaeology of the Land of Binyamin in the Days of the Return to Zion – Dr. Aharon Tavger – The Hebrew University and Ariel University – Click here for the video
  4. Rise and Rise to Zion: The Change in the Status of Jerusalem in the Persian Period – Dr. Hanan Birnbaum – Herzog Academic College and Sha’anan College – Click here for the video

Closing Session: The Longing for the Land of Israel in Our Generation in Israel and in the Diaspora

Chair: Mr. Amichai Benat, Herzog Academic College

  1. Zionist Hasidism in Tel Aviv – Rabbi Prof. Yehuda Brandes – Herzog Academic College- Click here for the video
  2. Is the statement “Eye to Zion Scouts” still relevant in Israel in 2023? – Prof. Margalit Shilo – Bar-Ilan University – Click here for the video
  3. The Longing for the Land of Israel in Our Time – Prof. Zeev Griss – Ben-Gurion University – Click here for the video
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