Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2247728
D. Beck, E. Vigoda-Gadot
ABSTRACT Stakeholder-orientation is useful for managing conflicts between stakeholders and strategizing urban sustainability. This qualitative meta-analysis explores the characteristics and challenges of stakeholder-orientation in the governance of Israeli cities and local communities. Main findings: (1) migrants and immigrants, third sector and civil society movements, and religious groups are more protagonists in the Israeli urban governance in comparison to general urban contexts; (2) Though influenced by communicative planning, more effort should be made to strengthen stakeholder-orientation as a sustainable urban strategy; and (3) The power of networks has its attention increased in Israeli urban governance as in other contexts worldwide.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2247656
T. Laor, Ofer Muchtar
ABSTRACT 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 may operate the radio stations with high motivation and self-fulfilment since they determine the content of the programs. Inmates may also acquire work-related tools and habits and strengthen their self-confidence, which allows adopting constructive behavioural patterns. Therefore, empowering prisoners through radio station activities may encourage their normative reintegration into society.
{"title":"“The Shawshank Redemption”: an analysis of prisoner and prison radio","authors":"T. Laor, Ofer Muchtar","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2247656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2247656","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT 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 may operate the radio stations with high motivation and self-fulfilment since they determine the content of the programs. Inmates may also acquire work-related tools and habits and strengthen their self-confidence, which allows adopting constructive behavioural patterns. Therefore, empowering prisoners through radio station activities may encourage their normative reintegration into society.","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47278349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2247658
Nir Rozmann, Limor Yehuda
ABSTRACT 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 perceived Israeli-Arab threat, frustration leading to aggression, and intergroup violence justification. The findings indicate that there is a significant correlation between perceived realistic threat and intergroup violence justification, whereas no significant correlation was found between frustration leading to aggression and intergroup violence justification. These results suggest the need to better understand intergroup conflicts in the field of international relations.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2247654
Gil Cohen
ABSTRACT 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 categories and protect the over 60 years old savers from the occurrence of a financial crisis close to their retirement. We find that all the over 60 years old funds have outperformed the financial market according to their preferred level of risk. On the other hand, because the financial market blossomed in recent years, they lost a yearly potential return of 1.64%. The pension tracks for under 50 years old savers have gained an extra of 0.73% return per year; however, not all funds in this age category have outperformed the market benchmarks. The reform did not have a substantial impact on the 50–60 years old track since the risk ingredient has not changed dramatically.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2247659
Erez Cohen
ABSTRACT 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 development pace of this work pattern in Israel during the pandemic and the various regulatory processes enacted in this context. It shows that, rather than a result of planned public policy by policymakers, telework is spreading in Israel as a result of limitations, constraints, and needs in the domestic labour market, on the one hand, and external elements to the Israeli economy, on the other. Hence, while the proportion of teleworkers in Israel’s labour market is clearly on the rise, it has not yet been properly legislated and is evident mainly in the private sector on a voluntary basis.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-15DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2247670
D. Rodman
{"title":"Capturing Eichmann: the memoir of a MOSSAD spymaster","authors":"D. Rodman","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2247670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2247670","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41829867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-15DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2247673
D. Rodman
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Pub Date : 2023-08-15DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2247674
D. Rodman
{"title":"Ahab’s house of horrors: a historiographic study of the military campaigns of the House of Omri","authors":"D. Rodman","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2247674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2247674","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42653702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-15DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2247675
D. Rodman
and Schreiner do not dwell upon the battle of Qarqar, in which a coalition of small states led by the Kingdom of Israel defeated the mighty Assyrian Empire, temporarily interrupting the latter’s effort to expand its borders to the Mediterranean Sea. Not only do the authors seek to make a substantive case on behalf of the ‘greatness’ of the Omride dynasty, but also they seek to make a methodological case on behalf of the Hebrew Bible as a source of authentic, if incomplete, historical information. Indeed, Greenwood and Schreiner illustrate very effectively how the biblical text and contemporary extra-biblical sources complement each other nicely to paint a fuller picture of the military achievements of the Omride dynasty than one that is composed by relying only on the biblical text or only on the extra-biblical sources. Their methodological case on behalf of the search for convergences between the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical sources of information is both sensible and solid. Greenwood and Schreiner’s book, in short, presents a compelling, though quite technical in many spots, account of the Omride dynasty’s military history. Whilst perhaps not the best place to start for novices interested in this history, their work should find a wide readership amongst specialists whose focus is on ancient Israel during the era of the Divided Monarchy.
{"title":"The arc of a covenant: the United States, Israel, and the fate of the Jewish people","authors":"D. Rodman","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2247675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2247675","url":null,"abstract":"and Schreiner do not dwell upon the battle of Qarqar, in which a coalition of small states led by the Kingdom of Israel defeated the mighty Assyrian Empire, temporarily interrupting the latter’s effort to expand its borders to the Mediterranean Sea. Not only do the authors seek to make a substantive case on behalf of the ‘greatness’ of the Omride dynasty, but also they seek to make a methodological case on behalf of the Hebrew Bible as a source of authentic, if incomplete, historical information. Indeed, Greenwood and Schreiner illustrate very effectively how the biblical text and contemporary extra-biblical sources complement each other nicely to paint a fuller picture of the military achievements of the Omride dynasty than one that is composed by relying only on the biblical text or only on the extra-biblical sources. Their methodological case on behalf of the search for convergences between the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical sources of information is both sensible and solid. Greenwood and Schreiner’s book, in short, presents a compelling, though quite technical in many spots, account of the Omride dynasty’s military history. Whilst perhaps not the best place to start for novices interested in this history, their work should find a wide readership amongst specialists whose focus is on ancient Israel during the era of the Divided Monarchy.","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47865687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2223882
Tali Tadmor-Shimony
A school is an important tool in constructing identity, used in various ways. The functionalist approach to education seeks to shape a portrait of the graduates who will be active and useful citizens in their society. The norms and learned knowledge in the curriculum is transferred to students. The curriculum, as Grant and Sleeter put it, ‘always represents somebody’s version of what constitutes important knowledge and a legitimate worldview’. This approach claims that every display of knowledge results from a conscious or unconscious choice at a given time. The choice and organisation of the knowledge are made by those who determine and define which knowledge is valid and important and which is of secondary worth. The primary written curriculum tool is the textbook, seen by providers and receivers alike as the best means of learning and garnering information. The textbooks strike a balance between various social voices seeking to disseminate their points of view. Israeli curricular development from 1948 to date has passed through three main periods.
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