In recent years the study of populism has followed a" pure" political track, typically employing
an ideological perspective. We argue that such a perspective downplays material aspects of …

This article makes an empirical and historical contribution regarding the role of the Labor
Party government between 1992 and 1996—Yitzhak Rabin's government—in shaping the …

In the wake of Israeli Black Panther activism in the mid-1970s, the Arab League invited
Mizrahi (Afro-Asian) Jews, especially those in Israel, to return to their homeland. Some …

This work finds for the first time an almost continuous trend, as of the mid-1990s, in which the
income gap between households of the two major ethnic groups in Israel …

ABSTRACT The article explores Jewish-Israeli cultures through the innovative prism of
creolization, defined here as the contingent and dynamic process of transculturation …

Knesset, Prime Minister Menachem Begin gave his final public speech of the campaign at a
rally in Tel-Aviv's main square. On the previous night, the Labor Hama'arach party held a …

If early in his career Amos Oz was regarded as the epitome of the new Israeli or Hebrew,
later critics tended to reduce OzLs image to that of a member of a specific group-Ashkenazi …

In this article I look at the presentation of the Holocaust in the Israel Museum Jerusalem
(IMJ) from its inception with special regard to the permanent exhibition after its refurbishment …

The significance of the electoral 'mahapach'(upheaval) is not limited to the Likud's rise to
power in 1977 for the first time in Israel's history. It also brought secondary upsets in the form …

This article argues that Menachem Begin's religious ideology shaped many of his decisions
in both domestic and foreign policy from his days as commander in the pre-State …