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Avi

Sagi

Research Fellow

Prof. Avi Sagi is academic director of the Military Ethics Research Team and a Senior Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He has a doctorate in philosophy from Bar-Ilan University where he serves as a professor.

Prof. Sagi is the founding director of Bar-Ilan University’s Program for Hermeneutic and Cultural Studies and a member of the steering committee for the preparation of the Israel Defense Forces code of ethics.

He is the editor of two book series and an academic journal. Prof. Sagi has authored and edited more than 35 books and published more than 200 articles. His most recent book in English is To Be a Jew, published by Continuum Press as part of the Institute’s Kogod Library of Judaic Studies.

Avi Sagi

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Oct 12, 2023

“Home, when you reduce the meaning of the concept to its positive-psychological essence, is security.”

Feb 11, 2021

Dec 3, 2017

When it comes to conversion, the Jewish people must decide whether and how it wishes to exist, and what its ties are to Jewish tradition

Dec 23, 2015

The conversion ritual bears the basic questions of Jewish existence and, crucially, the questions of Jewish identification and identity.

Oct 25, 2015

As the framers of Jewish law knew, a physical assault on the sacred mount would mean forfeiture of its religious significance; its transformation into another territorial space subject to the control of mankind

Aug 9, 2015

Under the mechanism of rejecting and including, ‘others’ are judged, marked, restricted and arranged in a hierarchical order in relation to the ‘I’

Jun 5, 2012

We are not departing from the warm character who will continue to be with us until our final days

Oct 24, 2011

A liberal country must not force any religion upon citizens but also must not use its judicial system to define identity

Jan 19, 2010

The Spirit of the IDF Document and the Investigation of Operation Cast Lead: Professor Avi Sagi, one of the authors of the Spirit of IDF document which replaced the army’s Code of Ethics, explains that one of the document’s objectives is to block the attempt by terrorists to undermine the moral values of Israeli society. He writes that Israel needs to determine whether from this point of view the behavior of its soldiers during Operation Cast Lead gave terror a victory.

Dec 17, 2009

Assuming the Goldstone report is distorted and dripping with hatred for Israel, does that justify the lack of an investigation into what happened during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip?

Nov 23, 2009

One of the objectives of the ‘Spirit of the IDF’ document is to block the attempt by terrorists to undermine the moral values of Israeli society. Israel needs to determine whether from this point of view the behavior of its soldiers during Operation Cast Lead gave terror a victory

Apr 2, 2008

As long as every political, religious and ethnic subgroup in Israel may assert its presence in the public sphere, the Arab sector must be allowed to do so, too

Oct 1, 2007

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