The Ulpan. Politics project — evening meetings twice a week on Zoom about Israeli political news in simple language for those who have recently arrived (and not only). The host is political scientist Dmitry Maryasis.
30 minutes of political information, then questions, answers, free discussion.
Within each meeting, an approximately half-hour commented news story will be followed by questions and answers, and then a moderated discussion;
The first four meetings of the project are short lectures on the political history of Israel, helping listeners understand how the current political situation in the country developed;
The meetings of the Ulpan.Politics project are free for all its participants;
The Ulpan.Politics project is a completely volunteer initiative, is not affiliated with any organization and does not generate income for the team;
The project team:
Dmitry Maryasis: Israeli, Israeli scholar, political scientist, former head of the Israeli studies department at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
Linor Goralik: the author and initiator of the project, a communications specialist, is responsible for telling about the project to those who may need it, who find it important and interesting;
Nadya Yankelevich: project manager, responsible for making sure everything works, in her free time she works on communications in non-profit projects and volunteer initiatives; Veta Sbitnikova: technical project manager, produces web and VR projects, is interested in history and politics and wants to start to better understand Israeli politics together with the participants of Ulpan.Politics.
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