TA
Sep 26, 2019
"The History of Modern Israel – Part I: From an Idea to a State" is a time demanding course for all of us nowadays to know the real history of modern Israel. Thanks Coursera for the such opportunity.
SS
Sep 29, 2020
It gave me more insight for me about Israel history. The tutors explained it in a simple way, although some parts of the materials were a little bit difficult to understand
By Teymur S
•Feb 11, 2016
There is a problem with subtitles.Sometimes they are different from speech.
By Mike J
•Nov 11, 2015
Interesting course, but rather too short and not going very deep
By Leonel C
•Aug 15, 2020
A good, even if short, historical review
By Steven P
•Nov 19, 2016
a bit tedious but lots of information
By Idan F
•Mar 23, 2016
Great way to learn. Tests are to hard
By Constance
•May 20, 2018
good to learn about the history
By INGRID T H
•Jul 29, 2017
It is a good course.
By jose e h
•Jan 13, 2020
Very good
By Elaine H
•Feb 14, 2022
good...
By Reinaldo V d C
•Oct 20, 2016
good
By Michael G
•Jul 7, 2017
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By Stephen H
•Feb 27, 2016
Good, concise course.
The reason I didn't give it a higher rating is because I found it difficult (not impossible) to follow some of professor Eyal Naveh speach. His first language is not English, so I do not expect him to speak perfect English. However, I would expect the subtitles/transcript not to have basic mistakes. This became important when professor Naveb interview another person in Hebrew, as I found I could not really trust the subtitles.
I think it wouldn't take much to make it an excellent course.
My cheeky suggestion is to have a specialisation with The Emergence of the Modern Middle East by Professor Asher Susser as nucleus and a series of shorter, more in depth courses on certain of the bigger countries, such as Egypt, Turkey and Iran, similar to this one on Israel.
By Alan M D
•May 22, 2021
This course is Part 1 of four hours and Part 2 is 12 hours a total of 16 hours. This should ONLY BE ONE COURSE of 16 hours! A significant proportion of this course is also given by Professor Asher Susser and the material he provides is EXACTLY THE SAME as for part of his Emergence of the Middle East, Part 2 I believe. In other words, this is a RIP-OFF! I already paid for Prof Susser's excellent teaching and although I enjoyed most of Part 1, it should all be new material and not mixed with old stuff I have paid for twice. I think Tel-Aviv University is trying to make students pay double and should be ashamed of themselves.
By Raina B T
•May 27, 2020
I feel that the course provided good information, but the quiz and test were too difficult. The quiz and test required knowledge not taught in the course, and the questions were hard to understand. The question issue is probably because of the language barrier, so that didn't bother me as much as the information on the quiz not being present in the course itself.
By Deul A
•Mar 3, 2019
Thank you very much
It's a very interesting course but I feel it was only an introduction to introduction.
This subject should be with more information and should be organized in more than just 3 lessons
Why not a full semester course of 12 lessons or more!
By Andrea T
•Nov 25, 2020
No material is provided with the course.
It is difficult to consolidate the acquired knowledge without literature and references.
The instructors exposed the topics in a clear and fascinating way.
By SHALABHA S
•Jun 16, 2020
quite informative and comprehensive. Explained well enough for laymen to understand irrespective of prior knowledge.
By NL
•May 17, 2020
Course had a great structure but the professor's translation from Hebrew to English has room for improvement.
By Ólafur T Y
•Jul 28, 2017
Nice course, although I do not understand the need for having 2 lectures in Hebrew.
By Omer M
•Sep 18, 2022
A bit superficial, and the sound quality in many of the videos is terrible.
By Tamara O
•Mar 17, 2018
there was no discussion and there weren't enough question.
By Aunatya m
•Apr 7, 2016
content is good but its not made interesting.
By Aida S
•Mar 7, 2018
The Israeli professor talks too fast, like a robot. Not engaging at all. Very poor communication skills. The English professor, although sober, does a much better job. I missed additional reading material being offer besides the Holocaust course offered by Tel Aviv University. In enjoyed the visiting professor Dr. Anita, but still everything is very stiff and devoid of passion. They could have put much more effort into producing a better product. There is no passion, just stating of the past facts. Sad.
By Deleted A
•Dec 23, 2015
The course was too short and did not provide any reading material.
It would be more helpful to have more and shorter quizzes.
By V
•Oct 22, 2017
I have completed this course and have earned a certificate of achievement. Unlike Holocaust Part I, this course is really tedious. Perhaps, timeline and comparison charts and list of names of personalities could be provided.