Two live webinars (3/31 and 4/7) analyzing the Israeli elections and their meaning for Israel’s future.
About this Event
With Israelis facing the fourth national election in just two years, and amid a continuing coronavirus pandemic and uncertain economy, voters are fatigued and wondering where the country is headed. The UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies has two post-election events (
March 31 and
Background
Israel’s national “unity” government took office in May 2020, led by Prime Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud and Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s Blue & White. The shaky alliance followed three inconclusive national elections and the most protracted political crisis in the country’s history. Yet, the government collapsed again after the Knesset – Israel’s parliament – failed to approve a national budget. Israelis go to the polls for the fourth time on March 23, 2021. Official results from that election will be published on the day of our first program,
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SA Sen. Cordelia Scales, SEAS-U and the sponsor of The Code of Academic Integrity Approval Act, said the updates clarify procedures in handling academic integrity violations “in certain situations.”
The Student Association Senate unanimously approved legislation to support updating language in the Code of Academic Integrity at a meeting Monday.
Updates to the code include allowing certain violations to not remain on a student’s transcript after graduation and requesting “a restorative and educational approach” be taken for “low-level” violations. Senators also approved two co-sponsorship requests amounting in total to more than $40,000 and confirmed three new members to the senate.
Rollie Lal is an Associate Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs where she teaches graduate courses on Transnational Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy. Her research focuses on organized crime, terrorism, religious extremism, human rights, and other areas. Previously Dr. Lal was Associate Professor for the U.S. Department of Defense. Dr. Lal also served as Assistant Professor at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Gent, Belgium and St. Petersburg, Russia, where she taught MBA courses on international business management. From 2002-06 Dr. Lal was a political scientist at RAND, where she performed research and analysis on a wide spectrum of economic and security issues. She is the author of several books, including Terrorist Criminal Enterprises, Understanding China and India, Central Asia and Its Asian Neighbors, Iran s Political, Demographic, and Economic Vulnerabilities, and The Muslim World After 9/11. She has also published ar
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Remote working at NASA s headquarters meant alumni watched live and celebrated their work on NASA s Perseverance rover with friends and family at home.
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Alumnus George Tahu watched from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California last month as the Perseverance rover completed its 300-million-mile journey to Mars.
Tahu said he was responsible for setting objectives and constraints needed to keep the project on schedule while also reducing costs and risks of the project. The rover, which weighs more than 2,000 pounds and traveled through space for seven months, landed on the surface of Mars on Feb. 18, culminating nine years of planning and research.
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