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"The Israeli Society" Speaker Naomi Gail
(Special Event)
Naomi Gale was born in Iraq and immigrated to Israel. Gale studies law, specializing in criminal, family and small claims, as well as Alternative Dispute Resolution, specializes in family law. Gale is presently completing a sabbatical at the University of Cambridge, England, comparing the Israeli and the British legal systems. She has published in the area of immigration, gender and Israeli society, with two books, Violence against Women (2003) and The Sephardim of Sydney (2005), and several articles, including pieces in the Journal of Sociology, Ethnology, NEW COMMUNITY and the International Journal of Sociology of the Family. Mrs. Naomi Gale will speak about the establishment of Israeli culture in Israel, with emphasis on different origins of Jews from the Diaspora and their contribution to the creation of Israeli culture.
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