Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2206227
Justyna Łapaj-Kucharska
ABSTRACT Australia played an important role in the acceptance of the November 1947 UN Partition Resolution underpinning the establishment of the State of Israel, recognising the nascent Jewish state in January 1949 and presiding over its admission to the UN four months later. In subsequent decades, the two states have developed a close and warm relationship (albeit not without the odd political disagreement) and multifaceted political, economic, technological, and strategic collaboration. This article explores the nature and characteristics of this relationship as it evolved the past seven decades in an attempt to determine its underlying causes and most important driving forces.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2206247
David F. Burg, J. Ausubel
ABSTRACT This article re-examines Jewish population in what is now Israel using historical estimates from Ottoman, Mandatory British and United Nations sources and recent data from the Israeli census bureau. A logistic model generates backward extrapolations and forward projections. The model quantifies three waves of Jewish immigration totalling about 3.5 million. Subtracting immigrant data from total population numbers gives the main empirical trajectory for non-immigrant native-born population. A multi-logistic model combining migrant and native populations projects a Jewish population of about 10 million in 2050, a level low in the range of estimates made by others.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2206231
Yossef Charvit
ABSTRACT In July 1950, Moroccan Rabbi Yahya Ben Harosh wrote a letter to his students chastising those exposed to ultraOrthodox anti-Zionist influences for disparaging and denigrating Zionist leaders and the founders of the State of Israel. This article discusses the historical background to the letter, including the ideological foundation of the rabbi’s vigorous protest: from his position regarding the messianic concept to the religious affirmation of Zionism as a national-liberation movement. As such, Ben Harosh’s stimulating letter is not an isolated episode but a reflection of the longstanding religious and ideological antecedents of Zionism, dating back to the 16th century, which contained the main elements of the would-be Zionist endeavour. So much so that it is arguable that the 16th century set in motion a fundamental process worthy of being the departure point of Zionist historiography.
1950年7月，摩洛哥拉比Yahya Ben Harosh给他的学生写了一封信，谴责那些受到极端正统反犹太复国主义影响的人贬低和诋毁犹太复国主义领导人和以色列国的缔造者。本文讨论了这封信的历史背景，包括拉比强烈抗议的思想基础:从他对弥赛亚概念的立场到对犹太复国主义作为民族解放运动的宗教肯定。因此，本·哈罗什那封激动人心的信并不是一个孤立的事件，而是犹太复国主义长期存在的宗教和意识形态根源的反映，可以追溯到16世纪，其中包含了潜在犹太复国主义努力的主要因素。以至于可以说，16世纪开启了一个值得作为犹太复国主义史学起点的基本进程。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2206246
Oded Shay, R. Dorot
ABSTRACT The establishment of agricultural and natural history museums in Jerusalem (1920) and Tel Aviv (1925) by individual and institutional Jewish entrepreneurs was a corollary of the wave of exhibitions and fairs in Western countries that swept across Mandatory Palestine’s Jewish community (Yishuv) in the 1920s. Yet it also reflected Zionist ideals and perceptions and as such served as a catalyst for providing modern agricultural education to the Yishuv’s urban classes.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2206251
Tali Hayosh, Ilana Paul-Binyamin
ABSTRACT Teachers avoid controversial issues due to lack of knowledge and fear of being sanctioned. This article proposes a new theoretical perspective that views this phenomenon as a part of the neoliberal discourse. Interviewing 70 teachers suggests that whenever they were requested to discuss a controversial issue, they mostly individualised it while ignoring its social-political-civic contexts. These practices might indicate that the education system in Israel does not fulfill its educational duty, particularly in an age where many democracies are under threat. We recommend to re-include socially-oriented sociology in the field of education.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2206255
Nahshon Perez
ABSTRACT An internationally renowned scholar and theologian, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948–2020), longstanding Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth (1991–2013), suggested a direct discussion of the State of Israel. By way of exploring the way he viewed the modern State of Israel, this article discusses Rabbi Sacks’ overall communitarian, covenant based ideas before focusing on three categories: national narrative, the invigoration of civil society, and the place of religion. His most distinct criticism relates to the interrelationship between religion, the political system, and the state, illustrated inter alia by his insistence that ‘Judaism must be depoliticised and put back where it belongs, in civil society, far removed from all structures of power’.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2206250
R. Kenett, R. Gal, Eitan Adres, Nohad ‘Ali, H. Glickman
ABSTRACT The core of this article is the search for an ‘organizing principle’ for the State of Israel in the present era. To approach this core goal, it conducted 40 interviews with well-known and influential Israeli individuals and attempted to identify common grounds of Israeli society. Analysis of the interviews finds a broad common denominator among those with a wide variety of opinions, which is closely linked with the major principles of the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2206211
R. Freedman
ABSTRACT Relations between Moscow and Jerusalem have seen numerous ups and downs since the birth of Israel in 1948. Two main issues have dominated the relationship. The first is security, with the Soviet Union, then the Russian Federation providing diplomatic support and military aid to Israel’s enemies, especially, in recent years, to Iran and Syria. The second issue is the freedom of Jewish emigration to Israel. Finally, since the advent of Vladimir Putin, Israel has been very much the junior partner in the relationship giving Russia much more than it has received in return.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2206233
Massimiliano Fiore
ABSTRACT This article tells the extraordinary story of Fiorenzo Capriotti, the man behind the sinking of the Egyptian flagship the Emir Farouk in October 1948 and the birth of the Israeli navy commando unit. Using the same unconventional technique that the Italian navy special assault unit Decima Flottiglia MAS had pioneered against the British in World War II, the embryonic Israeli navy was able to defeat Egypt’s superior numbers and weaponry. Not only did Capriotti play a key role in the founding of the Israeli navy commando unit, but he also made a significant contribution in shaping the doctrine that the Israeli navy should overcome the unfavourable balance of power through the superiority of its naval commando units. The sinking of Emir Farouk in fact consolidated the notion that the Israeli navy should compensate for its small size relative to most of its enemies through greater agility and firepower.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2206228
Ofira Gruweis Kovalsky
ABSTRACT The tragic Altalena incident of June 1948, where prime minister and minister of defence David Ben-Gurion ordered the newly-formed Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to sink a ship laden with arms for one of Israel’s pre-state military underground groups, killing sixteen people and wounding many others, remains one of the most traumatic events in Israel’s history. This article re-examines the conduct of the key personalities involved in the incident and their attitude towards it in subsequent years.
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