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Shifra Mescheloff

–4. 22 Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem from 1978 until his death in 2003. references Avi-Yonah , Michael . 1956 . “The Second Temple.” [In Hebrew.] In Jerusalem Book , ed. Avi Yonah , 392 – 418 . Jerusalem : Bialik Institute . Ben Ari

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One Hand Giveth, the Other Taketh Away

A Feminist Perspective on Polity, Religion, and Gender in the Pre-state Period

Hanna Herzog

2000s. 2 The struggle, led by the Hebrew Women's Union for Equal Rights (Histadrut Nashim Ivriot), was conducted at the same time as the Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox (Haredim) struggled to preserve their social and political power. At the end of Ottoman

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(Not) Becoming the Norm

Military Service by Religious Israeli Women as a Process of Social Legitimation

Elisheva Rosman-Stollman

considered illegitimate. In other words, a religious woman who served as an instructor, teaching Hebrew to new immigrant soldiers, was in the same category as a woman who served in a semi-combat role in the artillery. Clearly, an instructor position is more

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Athar Haj Yahya

Arabic, Hebrew, and English appearing usually in that order (from right to left, as read in the two Semitic languages). This model is evident in the gallery's name sign, logo, exhibition signs, captions under the various artifacts, and figures in

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Menachem Begin’s World Travels in the 1950s

A Road to Political Legitimacy

Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky

to his willingness to include any party in his coalition except Herut and Maki, the Israeli Communist Party. 4 “Dr. Altman Speaks Words of Wisdom,” Davar , 30 October 1957 [in Hebrew]. 5 “Begin’s Visit to Cuba,” Herut , 16 June 1950 [in Hebrew]. 6

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Osnat Roth-Cohen and Yehiel Limor

ad agents or ad agencies that were employing various professionals; the Hebrew Artists’ Association for Practical Graphic Arts in Eretz Israel: established in 1936, this association consisted mainly of artists working in graphic design, doing ads and

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Two Patterns of Modernization

An Analysis of the Ethnic Issue in Israel

Shlomo Fischer

Middle East initially sought to address the internal contradictions of their situation through partial attempts to adapt. Teachings hours for Hebrew and Torah instruction were added to the curriculum of the modern schools of the Paris-based Alliance

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Sephardi Leadership in Israel

Transitioning from Mandate to Statehood

Moshe Naor

-Ze'ev, Sheetrit, and the other members of the Popular Party, such as Aryeh Turgeman and Yosef Haim Castel, emphasized the importance of dialogue between Arab and Hebrew culture, as well as the importance of encouraging understanding between Jews and Arabs

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Israeli Militarism Reconsidered

Reframing the Independence Day Parade

Adi Sherzer

. Notes 1 Barak and Shaffer (2010) map the various theories that link the military and civil society in Israel. 2 “The 20th Meeting of the 9th Knesset” [in Hebrew], Divrey Yemey HaKnesset (2 August 1977): 567–577; “The 28th Meeting of the 9th

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On, In, and Within a Place

Six Modes of Operation in Israeli Conceptual Art and Landscape Architecture in the 1970s

Efrat Hildesheim, Tal Alon-Mozes, and Eran Neuman

: The Political, Ideological, and Cultural Sphere and the Notion of “Place” The notion of place in Israeli society and culture has multiple, and sometimes contrasting, traditional and contemporary meanings ( Mann 2012 ). In everyday Hebrew, the term