ISRAEL 2023
Explaining the current crisis
(And other Israeli topics)
In-person or Zoom talks & lectures
Coming out at the age of 15 in a conservative Israeli suburb of Haifa, years before the LGBTQ community became a prominent part of nearly all Israeli families, I developed a solid political backbone, strongly influenced by a mix of my sexual identity together with my Jewish-Israeli one, shaped by the insights of my Ukraine & Belarus born Holocaust Survivors grandmothers, as well as my parents who were USSR "Refusniks" in the 1970's (freed much thanks to the American Jewish-led "Let My People Go" Campaign).
As a grown Israeli man, with years of experience in the Israeli Public & Civil sectors as an advisor to Ministers and Parliament Members on LGBTQ issues and Holocaust Survivors compansational policies, as well as a civil rights lawyer, board director in Israeli LGBTQ NGO's, an openly-out IDF combat commander and an academic expert on theory of discrimination, I developed a unique perspective and expertise in explaining Israeli culture, politics, law and society to non Israelis.
Thanks to this history of mine, together with my own path as gay child, son, student, soldier, activist and public servant I see a crystal-clear similarity between the history of Jewish minorities in the diaspora and the LGBTQ minority in Israel. Once hated and scapegoated by their sorrounding majority, then emancipated and excelled in all positions and nowadyas suffering from 21st century reactionary Antisemitism around the world And Homophobia inside Israel led by its current, new government, Both Jews outside of Israel and LGBTQ people inside it are currently asking themselves whether History isn't as linear as they thought it to be.
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"Talented speaker, engaging, funny, and passionate. I would strongly recommend.
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Ben Weitz
Penn Uni iTrek Law program
"I would provide a glowing recommendation to Nimrod for groups who want to get proffesional knowledge about Israeli society and the legal system. Nimrod can provide an excellent initial lecture".
Ben Zion Lederfein
Taglit leader and counselor
"The structure of his talk and the way Nimrod was able to make very complex topics clear and understandable for everybody is impressive and unique"
Alice Reitz
The German Trade Union Confederation
My Lectures
The 2023 Israeli Constitutional Crisis
What is it, why is it & where will it lead Israel?
Since 2019 Israel has been going through a constitutional spiral, escalating as for February 2023 into a soon-to-be civil war, 75 years after its Historical foundation as the world only Jewish sovereign state. In this talk, Nimrod sharply explains how Israeli society got into this crucial historical moment, ever since...
The LGBTQ Community in Israel
Past, Present & Future
In mid Feb of 2023, in the midst of the biggest political crisis Israel had gone through since 1948, a turmoil dividing roughly 80% of Israelis into two clear-cut resentful groups, one of the nation's most influential Journalists, a 30 years old Haredi Orthodox Jew, came out of the closet in what turned out to be the most ....
Life of Israeli Holocaust Survivors in 2023 Past, Present & the last remaining years
As of 2023, about 150,000 Holocaust Survivors are living in Israel, and their average age is 83. Around 45 passes away each day. The governments of Germany and Israel compensate them according to the specific “damage” caused to each one of them during the Holocaust. This compensational ...
“Your Cakeshops and our Printshops” – The story of the most famous case of discrimination in businesses and services in Israel
In 2016, while being head of the legal department of the biggest Israeli LGBTQ NGO, I received a phone call from one of its volunteers telling the story of a printshop answering her price request email, saying “We will not deal with this blasphemy! We are God fearing Jews!” Six years after ...
