Israeli History, Politics and Society
About the Book Series
This series provides a multidisciplinary examination of all aspects of Israeli history, politics and society and serves as a means of communication between the various communities interested in Israel: academics, policy-makers, practitioners, journalists and the informed public.
Saudi–Israeli Normalization: International Relations and the Six Day War
1st Edition
By Yossi Mann
October 17, 2025
Offering the first in-depth exploration of Saudi Arabia’s political, social, and diplomatic role in the Six‑Day War, this study sheds light on the kingdom’s overlooked but pivotal contributions to one of the most consequential conflicts in modern Middle Eastern history. Drawing on both newly ...
Israel's National Security Predicament: Guarding the Third Temple
1st Edition
By David Rodman
December 18, 2024
This book provides a ground-breaking assessment of the Israeli national security experience from the establishment of the country through to the present day. Seventy-five years after its establishment, the State of Israel continues to face an acute national security predicament as a result of the ...
Scandinavian Diplomacy and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Official and Unofficial Soft Power
1st Edition
By Nir Levitan
October 07, 2024
This book scrutinises how three small Scandinavian countries – Norway, Sweden and Denmark – developed a unique foreign policy that brought Israel and the Palestinians to the negotiating table. Bringing together the field of soft power diplomacy with the field of conflict mediation, the text ...
Israeli Institutions at the Crossroads
1st Edition
Edited
By Raphael Cohen-Almagor
June 24, 2024
This is a fascinating collection of essays about Israeli society and its institutions. It is written by practitioners who have experience and understanding, who are equipped with the insight and knowledge, and who bore responsibility while serving the public in the various institutions. Among the ...
UNSCOP and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Road to Partition
1st Edition
By Elad Ben-Dror
May 27, 2024
This book provides the first comprehensive account of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), constituted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1947 to study the situation in Palestine at the end of the British Mandate and make recommendations about its political...
Netanyahu and Likud’s Leaders: The Israeli Princes
1st Edition
By Gil Samsonov
September 30, 2021
This research discusses the second-generation Likud leaders, known as the Princes, who have dominated Israeli politics for most of the last three decades: their relations with their parents and the extent to which they have followed in (or diverged from) their footsteps.The main theme seeks to ...
The British Army in Palestine and the 1948 War: Containment, Withdrawal and Evacuation
1st Edition
By Alon Kadish
June 30, 2021
Following the end of the Second World War, the main mission of the British Army in Palestine was to contain Jewish attacks and illegal immigration while the fate of the Mandate was being decided. This book is a record of the British Army during the final year of the Mandate and its impact on the ...
The US, Israel, and Egypt: Diplomacy in the Shadow of Attrition, 1969-70
1st Edition
By Yehuda U. Blanga
June 30, 2021
This book deals with the diplomatic triangle of Israel, the United States, and Egypt during the War of Attrition along the Suez Canal in 1969–1970. Considering the Egyptian president’s political positions and outlooks on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the pan-Arab sphere, relations with the United ...
Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Turkey: From Ottoman Rule to AKP
1st Edition
By Efrat Aviv
December 12, 2019
The Jewish community in Turkey today is very diverse with extremely different views as to whether Jews are reluctant or enthusiastic about living in Turkey. Many see themselves primarily as Turks and only then as Jews, while some believe quite the opposite. Some deny there are any expressions of ...
Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yusuf al-Qara?awi on the Jews, Zionism and Israel
1st Edition
By Shaul Bartal, Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer
December 12, 2019
Sheikh Yusūf al- Qaraḍāwī is regarded as the most influential contemporary Muslim religious figure. His best-selling book, Al-Ḥalal wal-Ḥaram fi al-Islam ("The Forbidden and the Permitted in Islam") is perhaps one of the most widely read Islamic works, after the Qur’ān. The subject of jihad in ...
Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Issue: The Formulation of a Policy, 1948-1956
1st Edition
By Jacob Tovy
December 12, 2019
Examining the development of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinian refugee issue, this book spans the period following the first Arab-Israeli War until the mid-1950s, when the basic principles of Israel’s policy were finalized.Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Issue outlines and analyzes the ...
Israel, the Arabs and Iran: International Relations and Status Quo, 2011-2016
1st Edition
By Ehud Eilam
December 12, 2019
Israel borders four states – Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, and two entities – the Palestinian authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza stip. In recent years, despite incidents on the border with Syria and Egypt, the basic strategic status quo with these countries has not changed, and ...