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Liberal Whispers and Propaganda Fears
The American Jewish Committee and Israel’s Palestinian Minority, 1948–1966
Geoffrey P. Levin
minorities elsewhere by vigorously employing human rights laws, norms, and rhetoric ( Kurz 2015 ). In particular, the subdued manner in which Irving Engel raised the Arab minority issue appeared driven by a desire to avoid both accusations of inconsistency on
The Puzzle of The University on Air
A Story of Media and Academia in Israel, 1977–2013
Hagai Boas and Ayelet Baram-Tsabari
questions regarding the interface between academic knowledge and popular culture. Finally, an analysis of the reception of The University on Air in its new format could serve as a lens for studying the changing landscape and norms of science communication
Mor Cohen
it comes to the ways in which art can interfere with the order of things—meaning that we perceive reality through sets of norms, laws, and actions—Rancière notes the potential for establishing an aesthetic community. Such a community is formed as
The New Economic Policy of 1962
How Israeli Economists Almost Changed the Israeli Economy
Ronen Mandelkern
political agents who persistently promote their policy ideas and programs. When the moment is ripe, they attempt to set the political agenda by framing their policy proposals as matching prevalent norms and beliefs and coupling them with mounting policy
Two Patterns of Modernization
An Analysis of the Ethnic Issue in Israel
Shlomo Fischer
disparity in academic achievement. The children of immigrants from Romania and Poland fit the Ashkenazi norm, whereas the achievements of second-generation Iraqi and Egyptian immigrants were closer to those of Jews from Yemen, Morocco, and Iran, which were
Uzi Meshulam and the ‘Mishkan Ohalim’ Affair
The Influence of Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy
Motti Inbari
violating Halakhic norms—Meshulam claimed (falsely) to have done military service in the celebrated Israel Defense Forces (IDF) general staff commando unit ( sayeret matkal ) and to have made a “daring” foray into the state archives. In his hands, he told
Wang Zhen, Alfred Tovias, Peter Bergamin, Menachem Klein, Tally Kritzman-Amir, and Pnina Peri
largely due to a basic feature of Chinese society, which has had no dominant religion in its long history. Confucianism is not so much a religion as it is a system of political thought and socio-cultural norms. It does not have religious regulations in the
Menachem Begin’s World Travels in the 1950s
A Road to Political Legitimacy
Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky
leaders, who took a dim view of Begin’s globe-trotting, yet they were bound by diplomatic norms. This dichotomy resulted in the formulation of guidelines that contrasted starkly with attitudes toward the Herut movement in Israel ( Gruweis-Kovalsky 2015
Fifty Years of Drama on Israeli Children’s Television
From Teaching to Competing
Yuval Gozansky
discourse and norms. Plot resolutions, often reached with the help of Matti, the class’s open and attentive educator, consistently epitomized ‘proper conduct’, as it was normatively perceived by the government or what Louis Althusser ( [1971] 2014 ) has