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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Pub Date : 2023-06-16DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2224144
R. El‐Eini
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Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2223885
Orit Oved
ABSTRACT This article discusses the ‘love of humanity’ value and its meanings in Hebrew-language and literature school readers (textbooks) in state elementary schools, grades 2–6, from 1954 to the present day. The changes that took place over seven decades reflect educational and sociocultural developments in Israel and the world, as manifested in three central aspects: (a) Definition of the ‘Other’; (b) The types of texts chosen by policymakers or editors; and (c) The value-based educational approach.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2223890
Mirit Bat-Horin Di-Nour, Emir Galilee
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the representations of rural and urban cultural landscapes in the primary educational tool during Israel’s formative decades – Mikraot Israel readers – in an attempt to provide a better understanding of the overt and tacit messages intended for the target audience. By way of doing so, the article proceeds along two main axes: a) The ideological tension between frontier/periphery and the centre/city; and b) A historic-chronological exploration of the different representations throughout Israel’s history. Finally, the article compares between original and translated literature.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2224146
R. El‐Eini
Zionists quickly endorsed the majority report, with its larger Jewish state. In the chapter on the roles and attitudes of the different committee members, Ben-Dror uses as a title the description by Guatemala’s representative Jorge García-Granados of the committee members’ personal views, ‘eleven committees of one man each’, and the author summarises each individual view and the proliferation of such incautious ideas as that for the establishment of two Jewish states, one in Palestine and the other in Italian Somalia. Ben-Dror concludes with a discussion of superpower behaviour in respect of UNSCOP. He remarks that ‘everyone involved in UNSCOP’ believed that the USSR ‘was pulling strings behind the scenes to influence the committee’s decisions’. The Americans, too, were certainly active. These attempted manipulations led to questions about the independence of even the most independent of the committee members, Swedish chairman Justice Emil Sandström, and demonstrates the representatives’ mindfulness of the different opinions and policies of their own governments and of the great powers. The author wrote that he hopes UNSCOP and the Arab–Israeli Conflict will ‘give UNSCOP the place it deserves, as the real engine of the UN partition resolution’ (6). Ben-Dror’s book eloquently accomplishes this task by showing how the inevitable partition of Palestine was formalised in the UNSCOP-influenced UN Resolution to create an Arab and a Jewish state, a resolution taken with the great powers' unrelenting interference.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2223889
Shlomit Aharoni Lir
ABSTRACT This article examines latent ideologies in the teaching of health and cleanliness in the Israeli educational system. It compares second-grade school readers before and after the turn of the millennium, posing three questions: What pedagogical approaches were used in both periods to instil the values of health and cleanliness? In what ways have the topics of health and cleanliness changed over time? How has the teaching of these topics acknowledged diversity with respect to ethnicity and skin tone in each period? The findings reveal a significant shift from an education based on fear to one based on safety, from colourism to inclusiveness, and from particularism to universalism. However, the findings also indicate that prioritising universalism over multiculturalism in new readers may overlook the diverse and complex nature of Israeli society and potentially uphold existing social hierarchies and enhance a sense of alienation among children.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2224022
D. Rodman
{"title":"Entebbe declassified: the untold first-hand stories of the legendary rescue operation","authors":"D. Rodman","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2224022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2224022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45313848","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 : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2223995
D. Rodman
as he himself candidly acknowledges. That said, at least one general conclusion immediately stands out on the basis of the information highlighted by the author. Whilst Israel has thus far been reasonably efficient in defending itself against Iran and its proxies, countering their efforts to harm the country in the short term through military and intelligence operations of different kinds, the Jewish state has thus far not been able to prevent them from steadily upgrading their capabilities to inflict such harm in the long term. Whilst Israel has thus far disrupted the Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile programmes from time to time, it has not been able to prevent the Islamic Republic from making progress towards achieving its ultimate objectives here: the production of a nuclear weapon and a reliable delivery system for that weapon, respectively. And, whilst Israel has battered Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other Iranian proxies from time to time, it has not been able to prevent these proxies from continuing to improve their military capabilities, particularly insofar as concerns their capabilities to launch rocket/missile attacks on the Israeli home front. Eilam’s monograph, in short, delivers a very useful introduction to the Israeli–Iranian conflict. Anyone with an interest in this conflict, professional or layperson alike, is sure to benefit by giving due consideration to his work.
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