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Promoting Israel studies on campus and ‘branding Israel’—a strategy aimed at associating Israel with positive characteristics unrelated to the Arab-Israeli conflict—are central to improving Israel’s international standing and countering delegitimacy.

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Last week the Reut Institute presented its work on the future of Israel’s relationship with the Jewish world at the General Assembly of the Federations of North America in Washington DC. This presentation was part of the Peoplehood track, organized by the Nadav Fund.

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Writing for a project of The Samuel Bronfman Foundation’s Bronfman Vision Forum – ‘Why Be Jewish Gathering: Renaissance in a Time of Ration, Gidi argues that one possible engine of Jewish renaissance may be our mobilization to serve our mission of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world.

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The most significant transfer of power in Israeli history is unfolding in front of our mostly oblivious eyes. Israel’s political institutions and elite are being overshadowed by mayors, philanthropists, business leaders, nonprofits and career civil servants. Notwithstanding the acute need to reform our electoral system and clean up its act, in many cases, this transformation [...]

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The Economist wrote that traditional forms of Jewish support are changing. Isaac Devash, an Israeli philanthropist and entrepreneur argues that philanthropists “should stop compensating for the state’s failing and instead strengthen it by strengthening the society that upholds it.” At the same time, Israel is also starting to rethink what it expects of the Diaspora.
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