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.
Trapped Fools: Thirty Years of Israeli Policy in the Territories
1st Edition
By Shlomo Gazit
April 01, 2003
Based upon the author's own experiences this study explores the Israeli government's attitude to the West Bank and Gaza over a period of 30 years. The "fools" in the book's title refers not only to the Arabs who rejected Israeli peace offers but to the Israelis themselves....
Rethinking the Middle East
1st Edition
By Efraim Karsh
March 30, 2003
Rethinking the Middle East runs counter to the received wisdom in modern Middle East studies. This discipline has been dominated by what may be termed a "culture of victimization"; it views the local populations of the Middle East Arabs in particular as the hapless victims of alien encroachment, ...
The Last Days in Israel: Understanding the New Israeli Democracy
1st Edition
By Abraham Diskin
March 01, 2003
During the 1990s many dramatic changes influenced the basic characteristics of the Israeli democracy. This volume examines the challenges and circumstances the country has faced and addresses both the public's and leadership's singular goal of "peace and security". The book also investigates the ...
A Dissenting Democracy: The Israeli Movement 'Peace Now'
1st Edition
By Magnus Norell
September 30, 2002
A Dissenting Democracy explores the tension between the will of the whole of Israeli society and the right of the individual conscience to take precedence over that collective will. The author explores the dilemmas that stem from such an individual stance in relation to Jewish political ...
Developments in Israeli Public Administration
1st Edition
Edited
By Moshe Maor
July 30, 2002
The "Israeli History, Politics and Society" series comprises multidisciplinary studies that range from elections and the Yom Kippur war to the search for a true Israeli identity and the various initiatives to foment or prevent the peace process. This volume brings together a set of articles that ...
Green Crescent Over Nazareth: The Displacement of Christians by Muslims in the Holy Land
1st Edition
By Raphael Israeli
May 01, 2002
This is the story of the cultural and political struggle between Christians and Muslims, and of the rapid Islamicization of Nazareth - the birthplace of Christianity - ironically, under the rule of the Jewish State of Israel....
Israeli-Romanian Relations at the End of the Ceausescu Era: As Seen by Israel's Ambassador to Romania 1985-1989
1st Edition
By Yosef Govrin
April 30, 2002
Yosef Govrin was the Israeli Ambassador to Romania in the twilight of the communist era. Govrin describes Israeli-Romanian relations as he observed them from 1985 to 1989 after which the leader of Romania was deposed....
John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel
1st Edition
By Abraham Ben-Zvi
April 30, 2002
This volume seeks to reconstruct the process by which the Kennedy administration decided to sell to Israel Hawk surface-to-air missiles. It argues that both domestic considerations and political calculations were part of a highly complex decision made by members of Washington's high policy elite....
Jerusalem Divided: The Armistice Regime, 1947-1967
1st Edition
By Raphael Israeli
January 31, 2002
Traces the background to the history of the Armistice Regime, established in 1947 to combat the fighting between Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem. The author details the Armistice Commission, which governed its application and the many in-built problems that thwarted their proper functioning....
Israel: The First Hundred Years: Volume III: Politics and Society since 1948
1st Edition
Edited
By Efraim Karsh
January 01, 2002
Since its founding in 1948 Israel has faced many political, social and psychological challenges, unfamiliar to other nations on the western democratic political model and peculiar to the Jewish state. This work covers the role of politics in Israel since 1948....
Public Policy in Israel
1st Edition
Edited
By David Nachmias, Gila Menahem
January 01, 2002
An examination of the current Israeli government, covering public policies such as health, housing and transport. The volume covers the institutional as well as the political and the bureaucratic framework within which public policies have been made and implemented....
Israel at the Polls 1999: Israel: the First Hundred Years, Volume III
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel J. Elazar, M. Ben Mollov
September 01, 2001
The 1999 Israeli elections focused on the character of the main political contenders for prime minister - Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak. Along with Barak's victory, the Israeli public made important statements concerning the shape and direction of Israeli political culture with a hope of a ...