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.
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 ...
Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics: Traditionists and Modernity
1st Edition
By Yaacov Yadgar
February 29, 2016
Common discourse on Jewish identity in Israel is dominated by the view that Jewish Israelis can, and should, be either religious or secular. Moving away from this conventional framework, this book examines the role of secularism and religion in Jewish society and politics. With a focus on the ‘...
Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948
1st Edition
By Michael J Cohen
December 01, 2015
In 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration for military and strategic reasons. This book analyses why and how the British took on the Palestine Mandate. It explores how their interests and policies changed during its course and why they evacuated the country in 1948. During the first ...
Divided Against Zion: Anti-Zionist Opposition to the Creation of a Jewish State in Palestine, 1945-1948
1st Edition
By Rory Miller
November 24, 2015
Using primary sources, this study of the relationship between three anti-Zionist bodies in Britain in the years that directly preceded the founding of the State of Israel also analyzes the Zionist attitude to the Jewish Fellowship, the Arab Office and the Committee for Arab Affairs....
Britain, the Hashemites and Arab Rule: The Sherifian Solution
1st Edition
By Timothy J. Paris
April 09, 2015
Timothy Paris examines Winston Churchill's involvement in the struggle for power in a number of Middle Eastern countries between 1920 and 1925. His study traces the development of the Sherifian policy, a policy that was devised by the British....
Britain, Israel and Anglo-Jewry 1949-57
1st Edition
By Natan Aridan
February 27, 2015
This book focuses on the bilateral and multilateral relations between Britain, the 'former proprietor' and Israel, the 'successor state', during the period following their armed clash in January 1949, to Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza and the Sinai in March 1957. It highlights the formulation of...
The Harp and the Shield of David: Ireland, Zionism and the State of Israel
1st Edition
By Shulamit Eliash
February 05, 2015
Eliash examines the relationship between Ireland and the Zionist movement, and the state of Israel from the context of Palestine’s partition and the delay in Ireland’s recognition of the State of Israel until 1963. Analyzing the Irish attitude to the partition of Palestine through an analogy ...
Israel's National Security: Issues and Challenges Since the Yom Kippur War
1st Edition
By Efraim Inbar
April 28, 2014
This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of Israel's security challenges since the 1973 October War. Efraim Inbar takes the reader on a historical journey through Israel's relations in the Middle East that begins with an analysis of Israel's strategic thinking after 1973 and ends with an ...
War in Palestine, 1948: Israeli and Arab Strategy and Diplomacy
1st Edition
By David Tal
April 28, 2014
Arab involvement in the Jewish-Palestine conflict had started during the late 1930s, but it was only in the wake of the UN Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947 that active military intervention was considered. The Arab League tried to form a unified army that would prevent the implementation of...
Israel's National Security Law: Political Dynamics and Historical Development
1st Edition
By Amichai Cohen, Stuart A. Cohen
February 25, 2014
Terror attacks on western civilian targets have stimulated interest in the dilemmas faced by liberal societies when combating threats to national security. Combining the perspectives of political science and law, this book addresses that discourse, asking how democracies seek to harmonize the ...
Israel and the Family of Nations: The Jewish Nation-State and Human Rights
1st Edition
By Alexander Yakobson, Amnon Rubinstein
July 09, 2010
Can Israel be both Jewish and truly democratic? How can a nation–state, which incorporates a large national minority with a distinct identity of its own be a state of all its citizens? Written by two eminent Israeli scholars, a professor of constitutional law and a historian, Alexander Yakobson ...
Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry: 1948 - 1963
1st Edition
By Ariel Feldestein
December 22, 2009
Based on archival material, this intriguing book examines David Ben-Gurion’s influence on the relationship between the state of Israel, the Zionist Organization and American Jewry between 1948 and 1963 when he served as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. The author discusses how Ben-Gurion was...