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Haviv Rettig Gur, Israeli Journalist and Senior Analyst at The Times of Israel
Tuesday, March 11, 202511:00 AM (Pacific Time)Zoom (Webinar)
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Haviv Rettig Gur is an Israeli journalist who serves as the senior analyst at The Times of Israel. He has covered Israeli politics and the country’s foreign and regional policies, as well as its relationship with the Jewish diaspora. He has reported from over 20 countries on the issues of the day. He is fluent in Hebrew and English, lectures in Israel and abroad on Israeli society and history, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and more. He served as director of communications for the Jewish Agency for Israel, Israel's largest NGO, and was an early advocate and lobbyist for SpaceIL, working to advance science and space education through the construction and launch of an Israeli spacecraft. He teaches about the intersection of journalism, history and politics at prestigious Israeli premilitary academies.
Kal Raustiala holds the Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law at UCLA Law School and is a Professor at the UCLA International Institute, where he teaches in the Program on Global Studies. Since 2007 he has served as Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. From 2012-2015 he was UCLA’s Associate Vice Provost for International Studies and Faculty Director of the International Education Office. Professor Raustiala's research focuses on international law, international relations, and intellectual property. His most recent book The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire is a biography of the late UN diplomat, civil rights figure, and UCLA alum for Oxford University Press.
In sponsoring the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Series, the Burkle Center for International Relations celebrates the memory of Daniel Pearl as a prominent journalist who dedicated his life to bringing joy and understanding to the world. Past presenters have included David Remnick of The New Yorker, Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic, Christopher Hitchens, CNN's Anderson Cooper, David Brooks and Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, ABC’s Ted Koppel, CBS’s Jeff Greenfield, Daniel Schorr of NPR, CNN's Larry King, former Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice, CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Ambassador Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bret Stephens, CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria, author and journalist Bob Woodward, CNN's Jake Tapper, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy and most recently, Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion and Russian pro-democracy leader.
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https://www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/series/136027
Sponsor(s): Burkle Center for International Relations, Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, The Daniel Pearl Foundation, Hillel at UCLA