Wednesday, September 16, 2026 19:00-21:30
Included with Museum Admission
Program:
17:30 — Gallery tour: Documents, Acquisitions, and Land in the Ancient Near East.
18:30 — Gathering and reception.
19:00 — Lectures: Chair.
Session I: Greetings
Chair: Prof. Yossi Katz, recipient of the 2016 Israel Prize in Geography and Knowledge of the Land of Israel, and editor of the series Zionist Settlement and the Building of the Land, Bar-Ilan University Press.
Prof. Ari Ackerman, President, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies.
Dr. Amit Assis, Head of the KKL-JNF Institute for the Study of Zionism and Settlement.
Dr. Alex Tal, CEO, Bar-Ilan University Press.
Prof. Rehav (Buni) Rubin, Department of Geography, Hebrew University; former Head of the Institute for the Study of the Land of Israel and Its Settlement, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.
Musical interlude — tribute to the book’s supporters
Session II: Around the Book — Short Studies on Land Acquisition in the Land of Israel
Chair: Prof. Yossi Ben-Artzi, Department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa.
Traces in the Landscape: Properties and Cypress Trees — Inquiry, Interpretation, and Reconstruction
Prof. Irit Amit, Department of Environment, Planning and Sustainability, Bar-Ilan University; Chair, ICOMOS Israel
Settlement and Agriculture in the Shadow of Jerusalem: The Failed Attempt in the Cedar Valley
Dr. Reuven Gafni, Department of Land of Israel Studies, Kinneret College.
The Difficulty of Realizing Settlement During the Mandate Period — Kfar Uriah: A Hard-Won Colony
Dr. Michal Oren, Independent Researcher.
The Permit to Purchase Land in the Land of Israel on the Sabbath: Halakhic and Ideological Background
Prof. Chaim Shapira, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University.
Closing remarks: the book’s author, Dr. Yair Paz
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