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
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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
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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.
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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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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2223888
T. 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 elements and a deep-seated and critical perception of the rule of law as part of special enrichment programmes in the state education system. These paths give voice to those who call for local legal education and see a need to look current legal reality in the eye.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2223898
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 were manifested in the readers through the selection of texts as well as the editorial divisions into ideological and aesthetic categories. This article explores these transformations by discussing dominant readers while focusing on the artistic elements, genres, and literary forms.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2223887
Renana Kristal, Y. Seltenreich
ABSTRACT Disabilities were hardly and indirectly represented in Israeli school readers in 1953–67. This article proposes an integrative reconsideration of this attitude. Indeed, while disabled persons are represented as sensitive, their encounters remain sterile with no mention of either physical or emotional contact, without crossborders discussions. Normative persons address their disabled counterparts as seemingly helpless, neither willing nor able to help themselves. School readers offer a compassionate but a cold and distant glance. The whole period lacks empathy, and the disabled represent a specific aspect of that attitude. Israeli normative society emerges from school readers as elitist, ready to accept only those who conform to its high standards. For that reason, the readers abound with immigrant narratives, potentially able to integrate, but not with the disabled, of which readers seemingly despair. Even those who became disabled during military service are absent from the readers, for which they are of no educational use.
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