Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Recording of a panel discussion on 27 November 2024 at the Diplomatischen Akademie Wien - Vienna School of International Studies in recognition of the 120th anniversary of the death of Theodor Herzl, organised by the Center for Israel Studies Vienna

Welcome:
Emil Brix (Director, Vienna School of International Studies)
Mitchell G. Ash (President, Center for Israel Studies Vienna)
Ilay Levi Judkovsky (Embassy of the State of Israel in Vienna)

Keynote address:
Arieh Saposnik
(Ben Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Beer Sheba; Author of "Zionism's Redemptions: Images of the Past and Visions of the Future in Jewish Nationalism", 2021)

Panellists:
Alon Ishay
(President, Jewish-Austrian Students' Association)
Fania Oz-Salzberger
(University of Haifa; Author of "Deutschland und Israel nach dem 7. Oktober", 2024)
Stephan Wendehorst
(Faculty of Law, University of Vienna)

Moderator:
Mitchell G. Ash (President, Center for Israel Studies Vienna)


Chapters:
00:00:00 Welcome by Emil Brix
00:04:28 Welcome by Mitchell G. Ash
00:10:40 Welcome by Ilay Levi Judkovsky
00:15:09 Introduction of the keynote speaker by Mitchell G. Ash
00:15:10 Keynote by Arieh Saposnik
00:44:40 Introduction of the panel by Mitchell G. Ash
00:47:22 Comments by Stephan Wendehorst
00:59:56 Comments by Fania Oz-Salzberger
01:08:52 Comments by Alon Ishay
01:25:07 Discussion with the moderator
01:31:52 Q&A with the audience


Learn more about the DA and its programmes at https://www.da-vienna.ac.at.

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Partner:
Center for Israel Studies Vienna: http://center-for-israel-studies.at/de/