Israel: The First Hundred Years: Volume III: Politics and Society since 1948

by Karsh; Ephraim

• ISBN13: 9780714680224
• ISBN10: 0714680222
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Since its founding in 1948 Israel has faced many political, social and psychological challenges, unfamiliar to other nations on the western democratic political model and peculiar to the Jewish state. This work covers the role of politics in Israel since 1948.

Table of Contents

Collective Identity
Israel 1948-98: Purpose and Predicament in History	p. 3
The Fracturing of the Jewish Self-Image: The End of 'We Are One'?	p. 14
Shifting the Centre from Nation to Individual and Universe: The New 'Democratic Faith' of Israel	p. 31
Zionism in the Israeli Theatre	p. 43
Politics
To Fantasy and Back: David Ben-Gurion's First Resignation, 1953	p. 59
Labour and Likud: Roots of their Ideological-Political Struggle for Hegemony over Zionism, 1925-35	p. 79
Likud and the Search for Eretz Israel: From the Bible to the Twenty-First Century	p. 91
The Delicate Framework of Israeli Democracy During the 1980s: Retrospect and Appraisal	p. 118
State-Religion Relations in Israel: The Subtle Issue Underlying the Rabin Assassination	p. 139
Referenda in a Post-Consociational Democracy: The Case of Israel	p. 146
Society
Kibbutz or Moshav? Priority Changes of Settlement Types in Israel, 1949-53	p. 163
Mass Immigration and the Demographic Revolution in Israel	p. 177
The IDF and the Mass Immigration of the Early 1950s: Aid to the Immigrant Camps	p. 191
Public Service Broadcasting vs Public Service Broadcasting: The Crisis in the Service as the Outcome of the Clash between State and Civil Society - The Israeli-Lebanese War, 1982	p. 211
The Bank-Shares Regulation Affair and Illegality in Israeli Society: A Theoretical Perspective of Unethical Managerial Behaviour	p. 226
Abstracts	p. 253
Index	p. 259
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