The Covid 19 Pandemic in Israel | Trauma and Healing in Israel Today
Tuesday, Jan 14, 2025
Tuesday, January 14
12 pm ET Program Start
Livestream on Zoom
FREE | Registration Required
In this Zoom lecture, prominent Israeli demographer, Uzi Rebhun, will discuss trends and outcomes of the response to Covid-19 in Israel. He will address major health outcomes of the pandemic there, background indicators for how people coped, and the particular case of Ultra-Orthodox adherence to the commandment to “take careful heed of yourselves.”
This program is hosted by the Katz Center, please contact sas-katzcenter@sas.upenn.edu with questions.
More About Uzi Rebhun
Uzi Rebhun is the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations and head of the division of Jewish Demography & Statistics and the A. Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University. He has written extensively on international and internal migration, the Jewish family, group identity, Israel-Diaspora relations, and antisemitism. Rebhun completed his doctorate in 1997 at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was trained as a post-doc at the Center for the Study of World Religions of Harvard University (1997–1998).
More About The Series: Trauma and Healing in Israel Today
Join Penn’s Katz Center, the Weitzman Museum, and the Koret Center for Jewish Civilization for an online lecture series exploring contemporary issues related to health and medicine in Israel. Throughout its history, Israel has earned a reputation for innovation and advancement in medical science, and placed a special focus on public health as part of the state-building enterprise. Learn from experts about how Israeli practitioners and scholars are responding to new challenges including pandemic, trauma, medical advances, and more.
This series is co-presented by the Katz Center, the Weitzman Museum of American Jewish History, and the Koret Center for Jewish Civilization together with Tel Aviv University and ANU–Museum of the Jewish People.
The Katz Center gratefully acknowledges support for the series from the Goldhirsh-Yellin Foundation, the Klatt family, and the Harry Stern Family Foundation.