The Handbook of Israel's Political System

Itzhak Galnoor is Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science (emeritus) at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Academic Director at the Chazan Center at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He has been a Visiting Professor at many international universities, and served on the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and edited its Advances in Political Science book series, published by Cambridge University Press. He is the co-author of Privatization Policy in Israel: State Responsibility and the Boundaries of Privatization (2015). In 2015, Galnoor was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association of Israel Studies (AIS) and in 2016, The Scholar Achievement Award of the Israel Political Science Association. Dana Blander is a senior researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) in Jerusalem, the editor of IDI's online magazine 'Parliament', and a clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on Israeli politics, specifically civic participation and deliberative democracy, referendums, anti-democratic legislation, public opinion and investigation committees. She received her degrees in Political Science and Psychology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Her doctoral thesis, 'Ambivalence as a Challenge to The Political Order', won the Hebrew University Berger Prize for academic excellence.