Hillel Cohen- The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, w/ Mikhal Dekel / Rifkind Center by Mikhal Dekel / Tehran Children published on 2023-12-14T01:47:57Z On December 5, from 12:30 to 2:00 pm, Professor Hillel Cohen spoke via Zoom about the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Professor Cohen is a historian of the Middle East, an expert in Jewish-Arab relations, and the former chair of the Department of Islam and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University. He is the author, among other books, of Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1929.