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Israeli tech entrepreneurship: glorification of business exits in the media Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Itzhak Mashiah
Traditionally, entrepreneurs build long-term companies that generate profits by selling goods and services. Nowadays, entrepreneurs are building companies solely to sell them to larger corporations...
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Multiculturalism in teacher training: the Israeli case Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Merav Hayak, Edna Nahon Crystal, Yael Segev
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in multiculturalism in teacher training around the world. This qualitative study examined Arab Bedouin preservice teachers’ (PSTs) experience t...
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Kindergarten teachers’ leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic: from uncertainty to practices of care and concern Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Yonit Nissim, Aviva Avidan
This study sheds light on the professional leadership attitudes of kindergarten teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on their managerial practices in these times of chaos and crisis, and...
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The dual use of social media by Naftali Bennett during his brief premiership: a double-edged sword? Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Gal Yavetz, Tal Cohen, Lior Zamir
This article examines how former prime minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, used his private Facebook account differently from the official page. It discussed the differences between the two accoun...
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Iraq and its Jewish minority: from the establishment of the state to the great Jewish immigration 1921-1951 Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Moshe Gat
The transition from life under Ottoman rule to life under the Iraqi Kingdom established in 1921 marked a positive shift in the fortunes of the country’s Jewish community. During the British mandate...
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The effects of the gap between actual and expected income on individuals’ happiness Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Tchai Tavor
According to the Pigouvian approach, utility (or satisfaction) is positively affected by income level. A higher income allows for more tangible goods and intangible services, thereby ‘elevating’ in...
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Remember lest we forget: the link between long-term memory and narrative, empathy and previous knowledge in Israel Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Maya Shalom, Efrat Luzzatto, Zehavit Gross
One of the most demanding challenges teachers and educators face is the need to engage their students with ‘difficult knowledge’ topics. The need to unwrap controversial issues that are the subject...
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The Albanian Righteous: a case of missing information Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Visar Malaj
The first Albanian Righteous Among the Nations was recognized only in 1987, 24 years after the programmme's birth - one of the longest periods before the first recognition by Yad Vashem's database....
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Chgouri music and third-generation Israeli-Moroccan Jews Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Mohammed Elaloui
Using a sociocultural analytical approach, this article investigates the historical background, evolution, and contemporary relevance of Chgouri music for third-generation Moroccan Jews living in I...
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Walking the land: a history of Israeli hiking trails Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 David Rodman
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2024)
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Military service of home-schooled graduates in Israel Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Avishag Edri
How do home-schooled graduates cope with military service? This question is particularly significant in Israel where compulsory military service is a central part of Jewish-Israeli society. This ar...
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Sayeret Matkal: the greatest operations of Israel’s elite commandos Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 David Rodman
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2024)
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Understanding territorial withdrawal: Israeli occupations and exits Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 David Rodman
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2024)
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Centre-periphery relations in the Ottoman Galilee: the case of Akil Agha al-Hasi, 1840-70 Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Muhammad Suwaed
Akil Agha al-Hasi, a son of a Bedouin family, immigrated into Palestine from Egypt at the start of the 19th century. He was a dominant factor in the history of Galilee from the 1830s to the end of ...
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Turkey and Israel: Evolution of state identity and shifting relations Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Ayfer Erdoğan Şafak
Turkish-Israeli relations have been marked by constant fluctuations for over half a century, yet they have never ebbed so low as in the era under the AKP (Justice and Development Party). A closer l...
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Introduction Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Efrat Aviv
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024)
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Israelophobia: the newest version of the oldest hatred & what to do about it Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Roza I.M. El-Eini
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024)
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Ladders and ropes: Israeli–Turkish relations 2010–20 Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Efrat Aviv
While Turkey was the first Muslim majority state to recognise Israel, bilateral relations underwent many ups and downs in subsequent decades, peaking in the 1990s and experiencing a sharp deteriora...
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Turkish-Israeli economic relations in the new normalisation environment Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Fatma Sarıaslan
Normalization indicates that states have opened a new page in their bilateral relations, and while it does not cover some problematic areas in relations and does not offer a final solution, it serv...
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(In)sights: thirty years of peacemaking in the Oslo process Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Roza I.M. El-Eini
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024)
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Because it’s just and right: the untold back-story of the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moving the US embassy to Jerusalem Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Roza I.M. El-Eini
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024)
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Cooperation and conflict in Turkish–Israeli relations since the 1990s Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Nurlan Muminov
Turkish-Israeli relations, which achieved the level of strategic cooperation in the late 1990s, began to decline in the late 2000s, especially after Israel’s 2008–9 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. The...
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Can ‘the whole world’ be wrong?: lethal journalism, antisemitism and global jihad Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 David Rodman
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024)
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Ontological security-seeking in Turkish–Israeli relations: prospects and challenges of normalisation Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Enver Gülseven
This article examines the tensions in Turkish–Israeli relations during the 2010s as well as prospects and challenges of normalisation from an ontological security perspective. Emphasising the role ...
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Turkish-Israeli relations under AKP rule Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Lacin İdil Oztig
Turkey was the first Muslim state to recognise Israel in 1949. While Israeli-Turkish relations have been characterised by ups and downs, mainly due to the Palestinian issue, they reached an all-tim...
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Influence of Turkey-Israel relations on Turkish Jews businesspeople Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Kivilcim Romya Bilgin, S. Sezgin Mercan, Yelda Ongun, F. Senem Gungor, Haluk Karadag, Ahmet K. Han
Multidimensional relations have protected Turkey and Israel from the effects of political crises. The main question of this article is how Turkey-Israel relations impact Turkish Jews business repre...
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Revisiting the Turkish-Israeli alliance of the 1990s Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Nail Elhan, Başar Şirin
The Turkish-Israeli ‘honeymoon’ of the 1990s has been explained by different concepts such as alliance, strategic partnership, or cooperation and friendship, with these concepts often used intercha...
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Turkey and the Palestinian and Jerusalem issues Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Michael B. Bishku
Turkish governments and their actions regarding both Israel and the Palestinians have appeared to tilt in favour of one or the other depending on Turkey’s security concerns (both political and econ...
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Turkish-Israeli relations: ‘the golden years’, 1991–2000 Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Jonathan Ghariani
In 1949, Turkey became the first Muslim country to formally recognize Israel. Initially, relations were limited to trade and transportation; a partnership to counter the United Arab Republic’s pan-...
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Land law and policy in Israel: a prism of identity Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 David Rodman
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 29, No. 6, 2023)
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The Knesset activity of the United Arab List (Ra’am), 1996–2020 Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Gadi Hitman
This article analyses the interaction between Mansour Abbas, leader of the Islamist United Arab List (Ra’am), and the Zionists parties. It explores Ra’am’s legislative activity since its foundation...
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The last “Mapainik” and the “Iron Wall”: Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian issue 2009-21 Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Kobi Michael, Ori Wertman
The strategy led by Prime Minister Netanyahu during his 12-year rule (2009–21) was not just a military-security strategy but a grand-strategy of national security. Effectively adopting Mapai’s ‘pra...
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Antisemitism or political purge? Stalin’s Jewish policies revisited Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Yu Xiao, Ji Zeng
The persecution of Jews under Stalin’s regime has been widely taken as proof that antisemitism was an innate element of Stalinism. Reexamination of the tyrant’s Jewish policies, domestic and intern...
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From a peripheral town to the Silicon Valley of northern Israel Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Osnat Akirav, Gil Cohen
This article examines how the small peripheral town of Yoqneam became one of the largest high-tech centres in Israel. It does so by using official data analysis and in-depth interviews with key fig...
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Ayatollah Khomeini’s approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its longstanding ramifications Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Doron Itzchakov
This article examines the long term efforts made by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to create revolutionary opposition to the rule of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, while exploiting the evolving relations...
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The massacre that never was: the myth of Deir Yassin and the creation of the Palestine refugee problem Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Elad Ben-Dror
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 29, No. 6, 2023)
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The meaning of multicultural evaluation and meaningful evaluation: the importance of multifaceted responsive evaluation in higher education Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Shira Soffer-Vital, Idit Finkelstein, Yael Shraga-Roitman, Revital Cohen-Liverant, Tsfira Grebelsky-Lichtman
The interplay between evaluation, pedagogy, and curriculum has been researched extensively. But evaluation is often treated as an isolated component in academic settings, also neglecting multicultu...
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The history of Galilee, 1538–1949: mysticism, modernization, and war / Zionism and land tenure in Mandate Palestine Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Roza I. M. El-Eini
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 29, No. 6, 2023)
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The influence of foreign wars on U.S. domestic military policy: the case of the Yom Kippur War Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 David Rodman
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 29, No. 6, 2023)
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Israel and the cyber threat: how the startup nation became a global cyber power Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 David Rodman
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 29, No. 6, 2023)
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Mobile phone distraction and its effects on academic performance of Israeli college students Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Gila Albert, Shimon Fridkin, Or Delevski
This article focuses on evaluating the connection between academic achievements and the receipt of text messages. A total of 106 students with ADHD were randomly divided into groups: the ‘Turned of...
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Dancing your Aliyah passage: An Anthropological Inquiry into the Acclimatisation and Integration of Turkish Jewish Immigrants in Israel Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Elazar Ben-Lulu
Anthropologists and sociologists explore dance as a political and cultural performance to express beliefs, ideologies and social ideas. This article examines the impact of Israeli folk dance on the...
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Sexual liberation and religious obligation – the ‘liquid authenticity’ of ‘traditionalist’ bachelorettes in the Israeli dating scene: a phenomenological study Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Udi Lebel, Moran Pollack
Following Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of ‘Liquid Modernity’, the term ‘Liquid Authenticity’ is ascribed to a community that holds a type of identity known in Israel as ‘traditional’ and does not purel...
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The home-leaving experience of Gaza Envelope residents following the May 2021 Gaza War Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Sara Zamir, Lea Baratz
Since Israel’s unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and the consequent seizure of power by Hamas, there has been an ongoing military confrontation between Israel and the Islamist te...
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The role of the Arab world in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: interview with Marwan Muasher Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 29, No. 5, 2023)
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The obesity survival paradox and melanoma-related mortality Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Yuval Arbel, Yifat Arbel, Amichai Kerner, Miryam Kerner
ABSTRACT Melanoma is an increasingly common skin cancer with approximately 200,000 new cases discovered annually worldwide. This article seeks to estimate the relationships between mortality rate from melanoma, prevalence of obesity and annual new melanoma cases per 100,000 persons in the population. By way of doing so, it uses a quadratic model to examine the possibility of the obesity survival paradox
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Stakeholder-orientation in the Governance of Israeli cities and local communities: a qualitative meta-analysis Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Donizete Beck, Eran Vigoda-Gadot
Stakeholder-orientation is useful for managing conflicts between stakeholders and strategizing urban sustainability. This qualitative meta-analysis explores the characteristics and challenges of st...
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The Oslo disaster 30 years on Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Efraim Karsh
Thirty years after its euphoric launch, the ‘Oslo peace process’ between Israel and the PLO stands as the worst calamity to have afflicted Israelis and Palestinians since the 1948 war, and the most...
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The ‘preservation of the brethren’ principle among Druze Intergenerational Groups in Israel Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Shadi Halabi, Gabriel Ben-Dor, Peter Silfen, Anan Wahabi
This article examined whether Israel’s Druze society has fundamentally changed, as the literature on intergenerational conflicts suggests. Specifically, it explored the association between people’s...
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“The Shawshank Redemption”: an analysis of prisoner and prison radio Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Tal Laor, Ofer Muchtar
Israeli prisons have recently initiated a rehabilitation program known as Prison Radio. This article suggests that since prison radio shares similar characteristics with educational radio, inmates ...
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Aged-adjusted pension plan, evidence from Israel Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Gil Cohen
We investigate the results of the Israeli pension reform that started at the beginning of 2016. This reform created aged, adjusted pension plans that are aimed to fit better the different age categ...
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Telework in Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic and the related public policy Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Erez Cohen
The telework practice first appeared in the global employment market in recent years and accelerated significantly in 2020 with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article examines the deve...
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Justification of intergroup violence among Israeli Jews: the role of perceived threat Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Nir Rozmann, Limor Yehuda
This article investigated whether perceived threat is related to justifying intergroup violence based on integrated threat theory. Israeli-Jewish participants (n = 236) answered questions on percei...
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The arc of a covenant: the United States, Israel, and the fate of the Jewish people Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 David Rodman
Published in Israel Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Ahab’s house of horrors: a historiographic study of the military campaigns of the House of Omri Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 David Rodman
Published in Israel Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Who by fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 David Rodman
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 29, No. 5, 2023)
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Capturing Eichmann: the memoir of a MOSSAD spymaster Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 David Rodman
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 29, No. 5, 2023)
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Legal socialisation through literature in Israel’s education system Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Talia Diskin
ABSTRACT This article offers a preliminary characterization of the legal discourse in literary texts written for children and taught by the Israeli general secular (Mamlakhti) education system since the 1950s. It shows that while for quite some time this discourse did not receive proper attention in educational curricula and textbooks, pupils today can be exposed to texts involving prominent legal
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Introduction: school readers as reflection of public and academic discourse Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Tali Tadmor-Shimony
Published in Israel Affairs (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2023)
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The road from nationalism to individualism passes through aesthetics: changes in Israeli literature readers, 1950s-1990s Israel Affairs (IF 0.366) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Ayelet Gil-Ronen
ABSTRACT Literary readers express the pedagogical and literary perspectives that dominate a given era. This article examines Israeli readers for Junior High students from the 1950s when Zionist ideals were prioritised, to the 1970s – when literary studies promoted aesthetic and formalistic methods, to the 1990s, when textbooks highlighted the subjective response of the young readers. These changes