Documents the results of the 2010-2014 Tel Aviv University excavation seasons at the Megiddo archaeological site in northern Israel. Includes topics such as radiocarbon dating, geo-archaeology, paleo-magnetism and metallurgy.
Tel-Aviv, aujourd'hui. Eitan Enoch, Croc pour ses amis, prend le bus comme chaque matin. Une bombe explose et tous les passagers sont tués, sauf lui. Des attentats suicides auxquels il sera mêlé, il sortira chaque fois vivant. Il devient alors "symbole de la résistance" pour les uns et une cible à abattre pour les autres. Jérusalem, une chambre d'hôpital. Fahmi, jeune Palestinien devenu terroriste par la force des choses, lutte entre la vie et la mort et se demande comment il en est arrivé là. Une tragi-comédie qui peint à vif, à travers deux destins que tout oppose, l'absurdité de la vie quotidienne et la réalité bizarre et sanglante de la guerre. Transcendé par l'humour, le roman fait voler en éclats les clichés pour saisir l'ambiguïté du conflit israélo-palestinien.
This book analyzes the changing role of law and social norms in creating tax compliance in mandatory Palestine and Israel. It is of interest to legal, economic, social, cultural and political historians, historians of Israel and the Middle East, and tax scholars.
A rigorous analysis of the role played by globalization in key episodes in the development of the Israeli economy, from hyperinflation crisis to high-tech surge. Anti-globalization sentiments are rising, especially in Europe and the United States, with the increasingly integrated global economy blamed for domestic economic distress. In this book, Assaf Razin argues that Israel offers a counterexample to this view, showing decisively positive economic effects of globalized finance, trade, and immigration. He offers a rigorous analysis of the role played by globalization in key episodes in the remarkable development of the Israeli economy. His findings may hold lessons for productivity-challenged advanced economies as well as for other countries such as China currently making the transition to fully developed economies. Razin examines the wave of immigration after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as highly skilled Soviet Jews migrated to Israel and the effect on income inequality; the Great Moderation of inflation and employment in advanced economies, as Israel's inflation converged in parallel with low world inflation rates; Israel's robustness in the face of the deflation shocks of the 2008 financial crisis; and technology transmission through foreign direct investment, reinforcing Israel's high-tech sector surge. He also considers such ongoing challenges as high fertility and low labor market participation and the economic costs of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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