Sydney – New Gen Roundtable 2019 (feat. MK Tamar Zandberg) - New Israel Fund Australia

New Gen Roundtable 2019 (feat. MK Tamar Zandberg)

Sun 24 Nov 2019 at 11am - 3:30pm

Double Bay Library
451 New South Head Rd
Double Bay NSW 2028

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For the first time, New Gen supporters of human rights and social justice in Israel will come together to brainstorm, workshop and discuss the future of liberal democracy in Israel. And we’ll be doing it with a special guest: Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg.

Join New Gen (20s & 30s) supporters of NIF for a deep dive into Israeli democracy and politics and workshops on how to shape the Jewish community’s conversation about Israel.

Scroll below for the current schedule.

The Roundtable’s keynote session will be delivered by Democratic Union Knesset member Tamar Zandberg. She will lead a discussion on “The Future of Israeli Democracy”. A former academic, Zandberg was a leader of the 2011’s social justice protests of 2011 and a member of Tel Aviv’s city council before entering the Knesset for the Meretz party in 2013 and going on to lead the party from 2018 - 2019.

NIF’s Naomi Chazan Alumni will run an interactive session focusing on critical issues facing Israeli democracy, including people seeking asylum, shared society between Jewish and Arab Israelis, human rights work in the occupied Palestinian territories, and more.

NIF Australia executive director Liam Getreu will also run a workshop titled “How to Have a Persuasive and Productive Conversation about Israel”.

Included in the Roundtable is lunch (catered by Bake Bar) .

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Here's the draft schedule for the 2019 NIF New Gen Roundtable:

11am - 11:15am Registration
11:15am - 11:30am Welcome and acknowledgement of country
11:30am - 12:30pm Discussion Groups with NIF’s Naomi Chazan Fellows
Alumni from NIF’s Naomi Chazan Fellowship will lead discussions about some of the most pressing social justice and human rights issues facing Israel today, including people seeking asylum, shared society between Jewish and Arab Israelis, human rights work in the occupied Palestinian territories, and more.
12:30pm - 1:30pm Keynote and Q&A with MK Tamar Zandberg: “The Future of Israeli Democracy”
Tamar Zandberg is a member of Knesset for the Democratic Union (Meretz), a former Meretz leader, and is a longtime social and feminist activist, passionately advocating for human rights, sustainable urban planning and transport, affordable housing, religious pluralism, women rights and the legalisation of cannabis.
1:30pm - 2:15pm Lunch
2:15pm - 3:15pm Workshop by NIF Executive Director Liam Getreu: “What Works – Having Productive & Persuasive Conversations About Israel”
How can we take cues from successful campaigns from all over the world and apply it to our issues? How do we open up the conversation about what’s happening in Israel so people will hear our concerns? By using important language tools and putting our own experiences at the centre, this interactive workshop will leave you able to make your Israel conversations more constructive.
3:15pm - 3:30pm Wrap up and close