War, Poerty, Memory

Ron Ben Tovim is a post-doctoral researcher focusing on online contemporary American and British post-war poetry in the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ron himself was a soldier in Israel’s Defense Forces during the Lebanon War.
In both his academic and artistic work, he has been dealing with questions of identity, war, grief and the use of words as a means of overcoming trauma.

This was a very special evening for us and we hope you’ll enjoy the talk as well.

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Yesterday night, less than 50 days before the 2019 elections, we hosted Omer Benjakob at the Ulpan to learn about Israeli political system and those fighting to oust Netanyahu from power. Omer Benjakob is a journalist, a senior news editor at Haaretz in English, and a good friend of the Ulpan. In his 90 minute talk, Omer explains the current political situation in Israel, the difference between right, center and left, what are the real political blocs, and the different possible outcomes for the elections – as well as answering questions from the audience. Enjoy!

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Ella Fussmann, Biologist and student of Ulpan Bayit talked with us about plastic pollution and microplastics, where it’s coming from, where it’s going to and most importantly, what we can do in order to make things a bit better.

Ella will soon have a website about plastic pollution – follow her instagram to be updated: ella._ma

And follow our facebook page if you want to take part in future beach cleaning events!

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KOSTA KAPLAN & ADIEL GOLDMAN are both incredibly cool and talented teachers at Ulpan Bayit.
They do everything together, they teach at the same place and play in the same bands. They arrive to classes in between their concerts and we thought it’s time they’ll teach us some Hebrew using their music!
Using their songs they will teach us a bit on their perspective of life in Tel Aviv!
The Hebrew class/concert is meant for students from all levels and Hebrew speakers

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On Wednesday, July 18th, Israel has passed a law denying gay couples of the right to surrogacy. At the same time Israel is using it’s LGBT community to show the liberal side of our country around the world. But what rights do gay people actually have in Israel? Is Israel’s use of the community misleading? And where are we heading now that laws are being passed against the LGBT community?

On Sunday, July 22nd, the LGBT community in Israel went for a national strike for the first time ever.Two days later we hosted Imri Kalmann, a social activist and former co-chairperson of the Israeli LGBT Association for a talk exactly about that!

Imri Kalmann was chosen by The Marker Magazine as one of 40 most promising young people of 2015, for his political and nightlife activities, and in 2016, he was chosen by the website Mako as one of the most influential people in the gay community in Israel. He is an entrepreneur and a Tel Aviv nightlife personality who has opened several successful clubs in the city, and was elected co-chairperson of the LGBT Association in 2015.

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