What do Israelis (and Palestinians) Really Believe?

A conversation with Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin, Israeli public opinion expert
Wednesday, March 12th at 7:00 PM
Temple Sholom Synagogue, 7190 Oak Street, Vancouver
*Advance registration required to attend. Please register below*

The past two years have been some of the most tumultuous in Israel’s political history, with widespread mass protests about democracy, hostages, war, and against the sitting government.

How did we get here? What do most Israelis think about their government? Which Israelis still support their elected government, which oppose it, and why? What do Israelis believe about democracy, a hostage deal, and the two-state solution? What do Palestinians believe about October 7th and the pathway to peace?

Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin, an accomplished public opinion researcher who often works in partnership with social change organizations supported by the New Israel Fund, will join us on March 12th to answer these questions and more.

Co-presented by Ameinu Canada.

About our Speaker
Dahlia Scheindlin (PhD, Tel Aviv University) is a political scientist, a public opinion expert, a political consultant, a policy fellow at the The Century Foundation, a columnist at Haaretz (English) covering politics, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and foreign affairs. She has advised on nine national campaigns in Israel, where her regular research focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, foreign policy, democracy, human rights and civil rights, political analysis, and comparative conflict analysis. Scheindlin also has regional expertise in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, post-conflict societies, and transitional democracies in 15 countries beyond Israel. She is among the founders of +972 Magazine and has co-hosted several podcasts including the Tel Aviv Review of Books and Election Overdose. Dahlia has published in the New York Times, the Guardian, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic among other publications, and appears regularly in international media outlets. She is a board member of A Land for All, and the author of The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel, published in September 2023, and she lives in Tel Aviv.

About The New Israel Fund of Canada
Since 1986, NIFC has contributed over $10 million to more than 100 organizations in Israel that fight for socio-economic equality, religious freedom, civil and human rights, shared society and anti-racism, Palestinian citizens, and democracy itself. Our work on the ground combines funding for Israel’s leading civil society organizations, capacity building for the social change sector as a whole, and public policy advocacy at every level. All of this is in line with our charitable purposes to create, develop, and support programs that inform people of their rights. We work closely with the NIF global family — with branches in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and others — which in the words of one of Israel’s largest daily papers, Haaretz, “there is hardly any significant socially oriented organization in Israel today that does not owe its existence to the New Israel Fund.”