Perspectives on Government Corruption | The Politicization of the Fight Against Corruption

Launch of Publications: Perspectives on Government Corruption and Corruption and Voting

January 10, 2023 | 10 AM–2 PM

The Israel Democracy Institute, 4 Pinsker St., Jerusalem

The Conference will be live-streamed here

 

10:00 | Opening Remarks
Prof. Suzie Navot, Vice President for Research, Israel Democracy Institute
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshivat Orot Shaul, Tel Aviv: Director of the Ethics Center of Tzohar

10:20–11:50 | First Session: Government Corruption, Populism, and the Erosion of Trust in Democracy

Chair and presenter: Dr. Tamar Hostovsky Brandes, Senior Lecturer, Ono Academic College; member of the steering committee of the Program on Combating Government Corruption, Israel Democracy Institute

Panel
Prof. Tamar Hermann, Academic Director of the Viterbi Family Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research and Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
Dr. Gail Talshir, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Raanan Sulitzeanu- Kenan, Department of Political Science and the Department of Public Policy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute

11:50–12:00 | Intermission

12:00–12:20 | The Challenge of Investigative Journalism in the Fight against Government Corruption
Oren Aharoni, TV Channel KAN 11

12:20–1:50 | Second Session: The Fight against Government Corruption Today

Chair and presenter: Adv. Edna Harel Fisher, Head of the Program on Combating Government Corruption, Israel Democracy Institute

Presentation of the database, “A Bibliography of Government Corruption”: Adv. Lital Piller, Research Assistant, the Program on Combating Government Corruption, Israel Democracy Institute

Panel
Adv. Rachely Edry-Hulata, Executive Director, The Movement for Freedom of Information
Eliyahu Berkovits, Research Assistant, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center for Shared Society, Israel Democracy Institute
Adv. Alona Vinograd, Executive Director of Shomrim, the Center for Media and Democracy
Adv. Nidal Hayek, Founder and Executive Director, Lawyers for Good Governance
Adv. Moshe Cohen, Consultant on media and crisis situations, former Justice Ministry spokesperson
Adv. Omer Makayes, executive director, TLM–Anti Corruption Movement

1:50–2:00 | Concluding Remarks
Yohanan Plesner, President, Israel Democracy Institute

Registration in Hebrew here