The 2010 Israeli Democracy Index raised a number of serious questions regarding the status and strength of Israeli democracy. We believe it is an appropriate topic to kick off our Forum, which presents essays representing a variety of points of view by eminent Israeli scholars.
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Between Scylla and Charybdis
On Colin Shindler’s Respublica Hebraeorum
Arie M. Dubnov
recovery of this British angle is one of the book’s strengths. The British vantage point, so it seems, also pushed Shindler to take into account the ties and similarities between the militant Zionists taking up arms and fighting against the British
The Determination of Educational Policy
Shas, Politics, and Religion
Anat Feldman
Ministry of Education, Shas established MHH, its ultra-Orthodox educational network for elementary school-age children ( Feldman 2013a ). The party’s standing improved during its second Knesset term (1988–1992) because its strength had increased by 50
Amir Goldstein
in Israel (1949–1965) The political strength of the Labor movement was entrenched during the British Mandate, first in the Yishuv and later within the Zionist movement. With the establishment of the state, the hegemony of the center-left party Mapai
Ken Stein, Yael Berda, Galia Golan, Pnina Peri, Yuval Benziman, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, Muzna Awayed-Bishara, and Aziza Khazzoom
of Israeli military strength in broad daylight could deter Syrian armed forces from moving into Jordan during the civil war there. Nixon ordered elements of the US Sixth Fleet to approach Israel’s coast, while an Israeli military column very visibly
Paula Kabalo
these groups have sustained over the years ( Rozin 2016 ). Concurrently, however, it illuminates their strengths as local communities. It gives an indication of the extent of solidarity among their members and the sense of self-efficacy that typifies
Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Refugees
Ideology, Morality, and Praxis
Yossi Goldstein
height of their strength, the Palestinian forces that fought in Palestine until mid-May 1948 consisted of a few thousand fighters dispersed throughout the country, with no joint command or coordination mechanism ( Gelber 2004: 37 ). Armed largely with
Shifra Mescheloff
possibility of transferring the Temple Mount to Jordanian control was considered. On his deathbed, Rabbi Goren mustered his remaining strength and wrote a detailed letter to Prime Minister Rabin, included in his book Har HaBayit . In the letter, he clarified
Heroes of Our Time
The Historical-Political Context of Devorah Omer’s Novels
Rima Shikhmanter
toward accepting his destiny, Itamar is neither a rebel nor a ‘new man’, but a child who is sacrificed while fighting for family values and personal happiness. Unlike Sarah, Itamar is not imbued with masculine attributes such as strength, militarism, and
Naomi Chazan, Morad Elsana, Ian S. Lustick, Sam Lehman-Wilzig, Gideon Rahat, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Daphne Inbar, and Oren Barak
removed macro-economic policymaking from the politicians and transferred it to the ‘Young Turk’ technocrats in the Finance Ministry. The result? From 1985 until the present, Israel’s economy has gone from strength to strength (with only a burp or two