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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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