Professor Alex Yakobson Hebrew University, Jerusalem Monday, October 07, 2013 7:30 PM Southam Hall 313 Free and Open to the Public Like Canada, Israel is home to many different cultures, ethnicities, and religious groups, and has two official languages, Hebrew and Arabic. Come learn about the diversity of the modern state of Israel in all of its social components: Ashkenazic, Sephardic and Israeli Arabs; Russians and other large immigrant groups; secular Jews, religious Zionists and Haredim.