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Rethinking Israeli Space

Periphery and Identity

By: Erez Tzfadia,Haim Yacobi

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Rethinking Israeli Space

Periphery and Identity

By: Erez Tzfadia,Haim Yacobi

This book sheds light on the production of Israeli space and the politics of Jewish and Arab cities. The authors’ postcolonial approach deals with the notion of periphery and peripherality, covering issues of spatial protest, urban policy and urban planning. Discussing periphery as a political, social and spatial phenomenon and both a product and a process manufactured by power mechanisms, the authors show how the state, the regime of citizenship, the capitalist logic, and the logic of ethnonationalism have all resulted in ethno-class division and stratification, which have been shaped by spatial policy. Rather than using the term periphery to describe an economic, geographical and social situation in which disadvantaged communities are located, this critical examination addresses the traditionally passive dimension of this term suggest that the reality of peripheral communities and spaces is rather more conflicted and controversial. The multidisciplinary approach taken by this book means it will be a valuable contribution to the fields of planning theory, political science and public policy, urban sociology, critical geography and Middle East studies.

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1136726047

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An Army Like No Other

How the Israel Defense Forces Made a Nation

By: Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

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An Army Like No Other

How the Israel Defense Forces Made a Nation

By: Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

A history of the IDF that argues that Israel is a nation formed by its army. The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'. In his mind, the IDF was to be an army like no other. It was the instrument that might transform a diverse population into a new people. Since the foundation of Israel, therefore, the IDF has been the largest, richest and most influential institution in Israel's Jewish society and is the nursery of its social, economic and political ruling class. In this fascinating history, Bresheeth charts the evolution of the IDF from the Nakba to the continued assaults upon Gaza, and shows that the state of Israel has been formed out of its wars. He also gives an account of his own experiences as a young conscript during the 1967 war. He argues that the army is embedded in all aspects of daily life and identity. And that we should not merely see it as a fighting force enjoying an international reputation, but as the central ideological, political and financial institution of Israeli society. As a consequence, we have to reconsider our assumptions on what any kind of peace might look like.

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Verso Books

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1788737865

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Suicide Social Dramas

Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere

By: Haim Hazan,Raquel Romberg

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Suicide Social Dramas

Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere

By: Haim Hazan,Raquel Romberg

Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimean account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss over its unsettling incomprehensibility. An analysis of the social dramas, cultural performances, and suicide talk aired in the Israeli public sphere, it suggests that such public glossing practices atone for and bring about the symbolic rectification of the socially detrimental effects of suicide. Drawing on Durkheim’s thought on the social significance of suicide and the sacred cohesive power of society’s self-representations through rituals and commemorations, the authors revamp the contemporary pertinence of these cultural devices, showing how, in the process of reconstituting and redressing the disrupted order, suicide talk constitutes a revival mechanism of communal ‘life giving’. A rekindling of the Durkheimian approach to suicide that examines how society deals with suicide’s shattering of normative we-feelings, Suicide Social Dramas: Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and anthropology with interests in social theory, Israel studies, suicide studies, and the interpretation of societal and cultural processes.

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Routledge

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1000411591

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Politics and Policy-Making in Israel's Education System

By: Haim Gaziel

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Politics and Policy-Making in Israel's Education System

By: Haim Gaziel

This volume describes and analyses the structure of Israel's education system from a political and policy-making perspective.

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Liverpool University Press

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1836241054

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Twilight Nationalism

Politics of Existence at Life's End

By: Daniel Monterescu,Haim Hazan

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Twilight Nationalism

Politics of Existence at Life's End

By: Daniel Monterescu,Haim Hazan

The city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes. The official Jewish national tale proceeds from exile to redemption and nation-building, while the Palestinians' is one of a golden age cut short, followed by dispossession and resistance. The experiences of Jaffa's Jewish and Arab residents, however, reveal lives and nationalist sentiments far more complex. Twilight Nationalism shares the stories of ten of the city's elders—women and men, rich and poor, Muslims, Jews, and Christians—to radically deconstruct these national myths and challenge common understandings of belonging and alienation. Through the stories told at life's end, Daniel Monterescu and Haim Hazan illuminate how national affiliation ultimately gives way to existential circumstances. Similarities in lives prove to be shaped far more by socioeconomic class, age, and gender than national allegiance, and intersections between stories usher in a politics of existence in place of politics of identity. In offering the real stories individuals tell about themselves, this book reveals shared perspectives too long silenced and new understandings of local community previously lost in nationalist narratives.

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Stanford University Press

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1503605647

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Land Law and Policy in Israel

A Prism of Identity

By: Haim Sandberg

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Land Law and Policy in Israel

A Prism of Identity

By: Haim Sandberg

As one of the smallest and most densely populated countries in the world, the State of Israel faces serious land policy challenges and has a national identity laced with enormous internal contradictions. In Land Law and Policy in Israel, Haim Sandberg contends that if you really want to know the identity of a state, learn its land law and land policies. Sandberg argues that Israel's identity can best be understood by deciphering the code that lies in the Hebrew secret of Israeli dry land law. According to Sandberg, by examining the complex facets of property law and land policy, one finds a unique prism for comprehending Israel's most pronounced identity problems. Land Law and Policy in Israel explores how Israel's modern land system tries to bridge the gaps between past heritage and present needs, nationalization and privatization, bureaucracy and innovation, Jewish majority and non-Jewish minority, legislative creativity and judicial activism. The regulation of property and the determination of land usage have been the consequences of explicit choices made in the context of competing and evolving concepts of national identity. Land Law and Policy in Israel will prove to be a must-read not only for anyone interested in Israel but also for anyone who wants to understand the importance of land law in a nation's life.

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Indiana University Press

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0253060478

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9780253060471

The Bank of Israel

Volume 2: Selected Topics in Israel's Monetary Policy

By: Haim Barkai,Nissan Liviatan

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The Bank of Israel

Volume 2: Selected Topics in Israel's Monetary Policy

By: Haim Barkai,Nissan Liviatan

This book, written by Israeli economists from academia, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Bank of Israel. It consists of two volumes. Volume I presents an analytic monetary history of Israel. Volume II deals in depth with specific topics such as the independenceof the Bank of Israel.

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0195300734

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The Jewish-Arab City

Spatio-politics in a Mixed Community

By: Haim Yacobi

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The Jewish-Arab City

Spatio-politics in a Mixed Community

By: Haim Yacobi

Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both exceptional and involuntary. Looking at Jewish-Arab relations in Israel in the context of the built environment, it is argued that there are complex links between socio-political relations and the production of contested urban space. The case study of one particular Jewish-Arab "mixed city", the city of Lod, is used as the platform for wider theoretical discussion and political analysis. This city has great significance in the present global context, as more and more cities are becoming polarized, ghettoized, and fragmented in surprisingly similar ways. This book examines the visible planning apparatuses and the "hidden" mechanisms of social, political, and cultural control involved in these processes. Focusing on the spatialities of power, this book brings to the fore a critical discussion of the urban processes that shape Jewish-Arab "mixed cities" in Israel, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Middle East Studies and Politics in general.

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160

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Routledge

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1134065841

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Company C

An American's Life as a Citizen-soldier in Israel

By: Haim Watzman

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An American's Life as a Citizen-soldier in Israel

By: Haim Watzman

An American-born journalist who immigrated to Israel describes his compulsory service in a reserve infantry unit, detailing his role as a soldier from 1984 to 2002 and his service in conflicts with Israel's Arab neighbors.

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Macmillan

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0374226334

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Israel and Africa

A Genealogy of Moral Geography

By: Haim Yacobi

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Israel and Africa

A Genealogy of Moral Geography

By: Haim Yacobi

Israel and Africa critically examines the ways in which Africa – as a geopolitical entity - is socially manufactured, collectively imagined but also culturally denied in Israeli politics. Its unique exploration of moral geography and its comprehensive, interdisciplinary research on the two countries offers new perspectives on Israeli history and society. Through a genealogical investigation of the relationships between Israel and Africa, this book sheds light on the processes of nationalism, development and modernization, exploring Africa’s role as an instrument in the constant re-shaping of Zionism. Through looking at "Israel in Africa" as well as "Africa in Israel", it provides insightful analysis on the demarcation of Israel's ethnic boundaries and identity formation as well as proposing the different practices, from architectural influences to the arms trade, that have formed the geopolitical concept of "Africa". It is through these practices that Israel reproduces its internal racial and ethnic boundaries and spaces, contributing to its geographical imagination as detached not solely from the Middle East but also from its African connections. This book would be of interest to students and scholars of Middle East and Jewish Studies, as well as Post-colonial Studies, Geography and Architectural History.

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1317449959

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The Pure Element of Time

By: Haim Be_er

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The Pure Element of Time

By: Haim Be_er

A rich autobiographical novel of the sentimental education of one of modern Israel's foremost literary talents.

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UPNE

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1584652772

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Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

By: Haim Yacobi

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Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

By: Haim Yacobi

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together case studies from North America, South Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the book analyzes how contested national, ethnic and cultural sentiments clash in planning and experiencing urban spaces. Going beyond the claim that such situations exist in many parts of the world because communities construct their 'past memories' within their current daily life and future aspirations, the book explores how the very acts of planning and urban design are rooted in the existing structures of hegemonic power. With contributors from the fields of architecture, geography, planning, anthropology and sociology, urban studies and cultural studies, the book provides a rich, interdisciplinary view into the conflicts over memory and belonging which are spatially expressed and mediated through the official planning apparatus.

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241

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1317066669

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Jacob & Esau

Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire

By: Malachi Haim Hacohen

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Jacob & Esau

Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire

By: Malachi Haim Hacohen

Accommodates both the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with traditional Jews and their culture.

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757

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Cambridge University Press

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1316510379

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Managing Change in Old Age

The Control of Meaning in an Institutional Setting

By: Haim Hazan

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Managing Change in Old Age

The Control of Meaning in an Institutional Setting

By: Haim Hazan

This book is an ethnographic study of an old age home in Israel that sheds light on the existential experience of elderly retirees. Hazan looks carefully at the universal concerns of old age, specifically examining the nature of everyday life in the institutional setting. He shows the workings of the micropolitics of control in an old age home and the tension between controlling dwindling resources and sustaining life-long meaning for residents. He also effectively brings out distinctive features of the Israeli situation, its cultural and bureaucratic codes. Hazan's study of the life cycle, based in the anthropology of process, is a senstive portrayal of the dynamics of institutionalized elderly in a complex society.

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State University of New York Press

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1438406266

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Slipcover

By: Joanne de Simone,Haim Mizrahi

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Slipcover

By: Joanne de Simone,Haim Mizrahi

If the mind is a trap for memories and flashing recollections, or a place that snatches a thought or action from the air for just a moment, this compilation of poems from the respective minds of two artists, sitting in a studio at East Hampton's public access televison show, Haim Mizrahi's HELLO, HELLO, reveal that minds meld and the instinctive floating grey cells give way to the unexpected whether it's on Joanne's paper scraps or Hiam's laptop screen. In the end, they are notable to the extent that they reveal what's under the SLIPCOVER.

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166551910X

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Slipcover

By: Joanne De Simone,Haim Mizrahi

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By: Joanne De Simone,Haim Mizrahi

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1665519088

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Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine

Normalizing Stress

By: Vered Weiss,Irit Ronen,Avner Dinur

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Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine

Normalizing Stress

By: Vered Weiss,Irit Ronen,Avner Dinur

Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine: Normalizing Stress explores the ways stress associated with a prolonged state of war, traumas, and emergency routine produces Israeli culture. Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine exposes the ways Israeli “emergency routine” leads to perpetual stress and trauma that are overwhelmingly present in the cultural production of Israeli art and literature. The nine chapters engage with a variety of Israeli cultural artifacts, including poetry, prose, film and graphic novels, and cast a wide temporal net, reaching from as early as the 1960s to 2019. In doing so, the collection sheds light upon the ramifications of the constant stress of the Israeli emergency routine on academic and cultural discourses and alerts us to be attentive to the effects of the physical world on the formulation of our world view within our social and political reality.

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Lexington Books

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1793653879

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An Army Like No Other

How the Israel Defense Forces Made a Nation

By: Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

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An Army Like No Other

How the Israel Defense Forces Made a Nation

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The Jewish-Arab City

Spatio-politics in a Mixed Community

By: Haim Yacobi

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The Jewish-Arab City

Spatio-politics in a Mixed Community

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An Army Like No Other

How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation

By: Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

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An Army Like No Other

How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation

By: Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'. In his mind, the IDF was to be an army like no other. It was the instrument that might transform a diverse population into a new people. Since the foundation of Israel, therefore, the IDF has been the largest, richest and most influential institution in Israel's Jewish society and is the nursery of its social, economic and political ruling class. In this fascinating history, Bresheeth charts the evolution of the IDF from the Nakba to wars in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and the continued assaults upon Gaza, and shows that the state of Israel has been formed out of its wars. He also gives an account of his own experiences as a young conscript during the 1967 war. He argues that the army is embedded in all aspects of daily life and identity. And that we should not merely see it as a fighting force enjoying an international reputation, but as the central ideological, political and financial institution of Israeli society. As a consequence, we have to reconsider our assumptions on what any kind of peace might look like.

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1788737857

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An American's Life as a Citizen-soldier in Israel

By: Haim Watzman

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An American's Life as a Citizen-soldier in Israel

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