Wed 4 January 2023 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Tribe Tel Aviv, presents: The Sunset Series
Happy Hour Drinking, Speaking, & Mingling
The New Israeli Government:
Is Democracy Thriving or Collapsing?
with Professor Gil Troy,
McGill University, Author, The Zionist Idea
When: Wednesday January 4, 7-9 pm
What: Meet young Internationals & Israelis from TLV and beyond. Hear from influential writers, thinkers, professionals, and decision makers impacting Israel, Zionism & Jewish life. Our keynote speakers will schmooze for 20 minutes followed by a brief Q&A session and then… enjoy the mingling (think beverage in hand?).
Where: Capella Lounge, Hagag Tower, HaArba’a St 28, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Who’s coming: 20’s & 30’s young adults only (bring ID)
RSVP: https://sunsetseriesjan4.eventbrite.com
Cost: No Charge, one drink minimum w/ discounted cocktails
About the Talk:
Using the vision of Theodor Herzl — and Alexis de Tocqueville’s visions of democracy, the presidential historian and Zionist activist Gil Troy will lead a discussion assessing what we have learned most recently about the strengths and weaknesses of Israeli democracy. Trying to see this new government in historical perspective neither excuses nor condemns but explains — while highlighting both the warning signs many are seeing and some of the underlying “habits of the heart” we tend to overlook.
About the Speaker:A Distinguished Scholar in North American History at McGill University currently living in Jerusalem, Professor Gil Troy is an award-winning American presidential historian and a leading Zionist activist. Designated an Algemeiner J-100, one of the top 100 people “positively influencing Jewish life,” Troy wrote The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s, and eight other books on the American presidency. One leading historian called Age of Clinton “the best book on the man and his times.”
His most recent book is Theodor Herzl’s Zionist Writings, published as the inaugural three volumes of the Library of the Jewish People. This summer he also completed updating for paperback the book he co-authored with the former Soviet Prisoner of Zion and human rights activist Natan Sharansky, Never Alone: Prison, Politics and My People. Troy’s previous book, The Zionist Ideas was a 2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist.
Troy was a featured commentator on CNN’s popular multipart documentaries, The Eighties, The Nineties, and The 2000s. He was just filmed for the next installment on the 2010s. He has been interviewed on most major North American TV and Radio networks, with recent essays in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, the Hill, The Daily Beast – and a weekly column for the Jerusalem Post. The lay chair of Taglit-Birthright Israel’s International Education Committee, Troy is married to Linda, a recovering lawyer turned artists and is the father of four children.
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