University of Haifa

So, it's kind of a resilient both at the party level it could and at the coalition level, although they lost a lot of votes and seats, we see a shift in public opinion towards the right.

For example, work by Liran Har Segor from the University of Haifa shows that younger Israelis are more right-wing than older Israelis.

Work by Gal Bitton shows that there is a modest but shift in ideological self-placement among Israelis that were displaced during the war.

So Likud seems to win those kind of voters, people who move to the right or right-wing voters before the election.

And Hezekiah is of great interest to historians and archaeologists.

This guy, Professor Gershon Galil, formerly of the University of Haifa, claimed that he had found inscriptions in the famous tunnel that Hezekiah had built to carry water into Jerusalem.

He said, I have found inscriptions that even though people have known about this tunnel and investigated it since the early 1800s, I have found inscriptions they overlooked.

Professor Galil was not modest about his discoveries.

Occasionally, the euphemisms are cast aside.

In 2004, the Haifa University demographer Arnon Sofer offered a prescient and unusually explicit description of what Israel's policies would become.

14 years before Israeli soldiers killed or maimed thousands of unarmed Palestinians as they approached the fence surrounding Gaza during the 2018 symbolic March of Return, and 19 years before the Gaza War, Sofer predicted that Israel's siege of Gaza would produce a human catastrophe that would turn Gazans into even bigger animals than they are today.

The pressure at the border will be awful.

You look north, you see Qaisar and Hadera.

On a clear day, you could see Haifa University.

The entire narrow waste of Israel.

And almost all our infrastructure also, not just the

Now, we did want to speak to a member of the Yashar party, but no one was available.

So to discuss what comes next, I'm joined now by Ehud Ehuran, the chairman of the Department of International Relations at the University of Haifa.

He's worked with Gadi Eisenkot, the leader of Yashar.

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So there is definitely a general sense of failure, if you will.

OK, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts there.

That's Ehud Iran, chairman of the Department of International Relations at the University of Haifa.

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That's of enormous consequence inside the country.

At 18, Eisenkot did his mandatory national service, joined the IDF's Galani Brigade, as did Ehud Aram, now chair of the Department of International Relations at Israel's Haifa University.

It's Israel's oldest infantry brigade.

At the time, it drew, I would say, generally people from lower middle class, contrasted with the paratroop brigade, which was more competitive, and drew people more from Israel's traditional elite.