Last updated on:
11/12/2015 |
Author: ProCon.org
Fania Oz-Salzberger, DPhil Biography
- Title:
- Director of the Posen Forum for Political Thought at the University of Haifa (Israel)
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
- Reasoning:
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“[A]s a scholar of the Enlightenment and a political liberal I believe that rational dialog, twinned with human compassion, is bound to win. Because as a humanist Israeli Jew, and a Zionist believer in the two-state solution, I expect that hope will win.”
“Why Bother Delving into History?,” Times of Israel, Aug. 12, 2014
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Director, Posen Forum for Political Thought, University of Haifa (Israel), Oct. 2003-present
- Professor, University of Haifa (Israel), 1993-present
- Full Professor and Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies, Monash University (Australia), July 2007-June 2012
- Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University, Sep. 2009-Aug. 2010
- Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) (Germany), Sep. 1999-July 2000
- Hornik Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford (UK), Sep. 1990-Aug. 1993
- Education:
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- DPhil, History, University of Oxford (UK), 1991
- MA, summa cum laude, Modern History, Tel Aviv University (Israel), 1986
- BA, magna cum laude, Philosophy and History, Tel Aviv University (Israel), 1985
- Other:
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- Twitter handle: @faniaoz
- Born on Oct. 28, 1960 in Kibbutz Hulda (Israel)
- Daughter of novelist Amos Oz
- Member of the Public Council of the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI)
- Awarded first prize in the 1999 Haaretz short story competition for “The Scratch”
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