Pulse of Israel’s Avi Abelow sat down with Avital Levi to discuss the upcoming National Conservatism Conference in Jerusalem—an international gathering bringing together influential conservative voices from Israel and across the globe.

But this conference is about much more than politics.

It is about the fundamental questions facing nations today: What holds a society together? Why does national identity matter? What role should faith, family, tradition and history play in shaping a country’s future? And what happens when societies disconnect themselves from the values and heritage upon which they were built?

Israel has a unique role in this conversation.

The Jewish people returned to our indigenous, ancestral homeland after thousands of years of exile and rebuilt a sovereign Jewish state in the land where so many of the Biblical ideas that shaped Western civilization were first lived.

That gives Jerusalem extraordinary significance as the location for this international gathering.

Israelis have much to learn from national conservative movements around the world and how other countries are confronting questions of sovereignty, national identity, immigration, family, religion and Western civilization.

But those international leaders also have something to learn from Israel: how ancient Biblical concepts of peoplehood, faith, national responsibility and connection to a homeland continue to influence a modern nation.

In this fascinating conversation, Avi Abelow and Avital Levi discuss why these thinkers are gathering in Jerusalem, what Israelis can learn from them and what Israel can offer the world.

Watch, share and join the conversation.

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