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.
Jihad in Palestine: Political Islam and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
1st Edition
By Shaul Bartal
December 12, 2019
The 21st century exists in the shadow of the return of extremist Islam to the center of the world’s political stage, a process that began at the end of the previous century. While researchers have focused on the rise of Hamas, this return has in fact manifested itself in a range of independent ...
Politics of Memory: The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization
1st Edition
By Udi Lebel
December 12, 2019
This book illustrates how a dominant political party, the Mapai, under the leadership of P.M. David Ben-Gurion, chose to ‘hug,’ honor and commemorate ‘Her Fallen’ and ‘Her Bereaved Families,’ whilst simultaneously ignoring the fallen that were identified with the rival political party, Herut, led ...
Ralph Bunche and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Mediation and the UN, 1947-1949
1st Edition
By Elad Ben-Dror
December 12, 2019
"I swear by all that’s Holy, I will never come anywhere near the Palestine problem once I liberate myself from this trap." Ralph Bunche wrote these lines to his wife in 1949, during the armistice talks on Rhodes. A year later, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his success in ending the 1948 ...
The Jewish Origins of Israeli Foreign Policy: A Study in Tradition and Survival
1st Edition
By Shmuel Sandler
December 12, 2019
The conventional understanding of Israeli foreign policy has been that it is a relatively new phenomenon, with some claiming that the ‘Jewish People’ is an invention by mid-19th century Jewish historians, or simply an ‘imagined community’. This book disputes these claims by demonstrating that the ...
Muslim/Arab Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Understanding Sulha
1st Edition
By Doron Pely
September 27, 2018
Inter- and intra-clan conflicts in Northern Israel pit hundreds against each other in revenge cycles that take years to resolve and impact the entire community. The Sulha is a Shari’a-based traditional conflict resolution process that works independently of formal legal systems and is widely ...
Israeli Democracy at the Crossroads
1st Edition
Edited
By Raphael Cohen-Almagor
August 23, 2018
In recent years, the discussion about Israel was dominated by post-Zionist, post-Israeli opinions. Important voices that represent large sectors of Israeli society were not heard. To somewhat change this situation, some of the best scholars in their respective fields participate in this ...
Social Mobilization in the Arab/Israeli War of 1948: On the Israeli Home Front
1st Edition
By Moshe Naor
December 08, 2017
In many ways, the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 is typical of the total military conflicts that characterized the first half of the twentieth century. However, in addition to the military course of the war, and its formative and revolutionary ramifications, this war was also notable for the social ...
The Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1956–1975: From Violent Conflict to a Peace Process
1st Edition
By Moshe Gat
November 01, 2017
The Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1956–1975 contains a collection of articles that examine select issues between the end of the Suez Campaign in November 1956 and the Sinai II, or Interim Agreement, signed by Israel and Egypt in September 1975. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the struggle ...
Israeli-Egyptian Relations, 1980-2000
1st Edition
By Ephraim Dowek
August 26, 2016
A memoir by former diplomat Ephraim Dowek which provides a comprehensive study of the relations between Egypt and Israel from peace until the present day. This is an informative account of the author's time in Egypt as a high-level Israeli diplomat (he was eventually appointed Ambassador) and as a ...
Israeli Diplomacy and the Quest for Peace
1st Edition
By Mordechai Gazit
June 22, 2016
This account of key issues in Israel's foreign policy offers a new insight into Israeli thinking. It also covers issues where the focus is on American, British, Egyptian and Jordanian diplomacy. The author's research is based on an abundance of documentary evidence, and the analysis benefits from ...
Between Capital and Land: The Jewish National Fund's Finances and Land-Purchase Priorities in Palestine, 1939-1945
1st Edition
By Eric Engel Tuten
April 27, 2016
Tuten shows how the Jewish National Fund (JNF) proved to be flexible in its fundraising to obtain its land-purchase objectives during the Second World War. He provides a detailed examination of the Jewish National Fund's internal development and analyses the relationship between JNF's ...
Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945
1st Edition
By Monty Noam Penkower
February 29, 2016
Professor Penkower's latest book, Decision on Palestine Deferred, offers the first sustained, documented account of Palestine and the Anglo-American alliance during the Second World War. Firmly grounded in three decades of archival research, his spirited narrative offers a fascinating cast of ...