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The Hyphen Cannot Hold

Contemporary Trends in Religious-Zionism

Hayim Katsman

Before I discuss the substance of these arguments, it is important to note some external characteristics of the scholarship on Religious-Zionism written by insiders. These books were all originally published in Hebrew, and only a few have been translated

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The Return to the Monument

The Looming Absence of the Temple

Hava Schwartz

: University of Michigan Press . Be’er , Yizhar . 2009 . “ The City and the Dogs: A Psychedelic Tour of Jerusalem’s Hallucinatory Realms .” [In Hebrew.] Ha’okets , 5 May (accessed 9 March 2017 ). Bimkom — Planners for Planning Rights . 2012 . From

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The Puzzle of The University on Air

A Story of Media and Academia in Israel, 1977–2013

Hagai Boas and Ayelet Baram-Tsabari

and is among the most popular sources of academic content in Hebrew. In August 2013, Galei Zahal decided to halt all future production of new courses ( Toker 2013 ). Two months later the station announced changes to the program’s long-standing format

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Gigi Moti

gaps, acculturation was an inherent part of his worldview, as a member of Israel’s dominant social group. In addition to Garin Gesher, there were other joint initiatives. One of the popular activities was Kayefet (from the Hebrew for ‘fun’)—a joint

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The End Point of Zionism

Ethnocentrism and the Temple Mount

Tomer Persico

Jewish messianic myth of the return to Zion. In 1967, Scholem’s question became dramatically more significant with Israel’s sweeping conquest of the West Bank and Jerusalem in the Six-Day War. For Scholem, religion, myth, and even single Hebrew words were

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The Determination of Educational Policy

Shas, Politics, and Religion

Anat Feldman

indeed assimilated, as seen in table 1 . The table does not include Table 1 Students in primary education with core curriculum supervision (Hebrew education) Inspectorate Total Year Ultra-Orthodox State Religious State Secular Percent Absolute Numbers

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Innovations in Israel’s Civics Textbooks

Enlightening Trends in Non-Western Democracies

Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Paz Carmel, and Alon Levkowitz

replacing them with a new national education system, taught in Hebrew or Arabic, depending on the students. Concurrently, the Mizrahi schools were transformed into the National Religious system. 1 Against the backdrop of mass immigration to Israel in the

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The New Economic Policy of 1962

How Israeli Economists Almost Changed the Israeli Economy

Ronen Mandelkern

, which has distorting effects. This position is further demonstrated by the words of Ephraim Kleiman, a professor of economics at the Hebrew University, who, in a discussion on economic policy, emphasized that the university’s economists did not oppose

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Bringing Politics Back In

Embedded Neoliberalism in Israel during Rabin's Second Government

Arie Krampf, Uri Ansenberg, and Barak Zur

ratio of “dependent individuals” (children and the elderly) to the population. References Achdut , Lea , and Gideon Yaniv . 2000 . “ Annual Review .” [In Hebrew.] Jerusalem : National Insurance Institute . Achdut , Lea , Refaela

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Yoram Peri and Paul L. Scham

Hebrew literature into other languages, from 1948 to the present. Yael Halevi-Wise and Madeleine Gottesman examine the implications of translating the literature of a language that is ‘small’ by world standards but whose modern literature necessarily