Israel: The First Hundred Years

Part 1: Problems of collective identity: Israel 1948-98 1. Purpose and predicament in history Moredchai Nisan 2. The fracturing of the Jewish self-image - the end of "we are one"? Judith Elizur 3. The democratic faith in Israel - from worshipping the nation to venerating the individual and the universe Oz Almog 4. Zionism in the Israeli theatre Dan Urian Part 2: Politics: to fantasy and back again 5. David Ben-Gurion's first resignation, 1953, Yachiam Weitz 6. Labour and Likud - roots of their ideological-political struggle for hegemony over Zionism 1925-1935 Yaacov N. Goldstein 7. Likud and the search for Eretx Israel - from the Bible to the twenty-first century Colin Schindler 8. The delicate framework of Israeli democracy during the 1980s - retrospect and appraisal Raphael Cohen-Almagor 9. State-religion relations in Israel - the subtle issue underlying the Rabin assassination Efraim Ben-Zadok 10. Referenda in a post-consociational society - the case of Israel Dana Arieli-Horowiz Part 3: Society: Kibbutz or Moshav? 11. Priority changes of settlement types in Israel Dvora Ha-cohen 12. The IDF and the absorption of mass immigration Moshe Gat 13. Public service broadcasting v. public service broadcasting - the crisis in the service as the outcome of the clash between state and civil society - the 1982 Lebanon War Mira Mosha 14. The bank-shares regulation affair and illegalism in Israeli society David de Vries and Yoav Vardi