Pub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2182466
Yuval Arbel, Gil Cohen
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationships between 21 fiat currencies to Bitcoin price movements using daily data from the beginning of 2012 to the end of March 2021. We use a two-stage analysis. The first stage excludes currencies, which are uncorrelated with the daily returns of the Bitcoin. The second stage is to run a Granger-causality test on the remaining six currencies to examine whether lagged excess returns on the Bitcoin Granger-cause the excess returns on the currencies or vice versa. Results support the conclusion that the return on Bitcoin Granger-Cause the return on the Israeli Shekel (ILS), but not vice versa. A possible explanation of these outcomes is the susceptibility of financial investors in Bitcoin and the ILS to the Israeli economy.
{"title":"What caused what? The Israeli Shekel and cryptocurrencies","authors":"Yuval Arbel, Gil Cohen","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2182466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2182466","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the relationships between 21 fiat currencies to Bitcoin price movements using daily data from the beginning of 2012 to the end of March 2021. We use a two-stage analysis. The first stage excludes currencies, which are uncorrelated with the daily returns of the Bitcoin. The second stage is to run a Granger-causality test on the remaining six currencies to examine whether lagged excess returns on the Bitcoin Granger-cause the excess returns on the currencies or vice versa. Results support the conclusion that the return on Bitcoin Granger-Cause the return on the Israeli Shekel (ILS), but not vice versa. A possible explanation of these outcomes is the susceptibility of financial investors in Bitcoin and the ILS to the Israeli economy.","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44275709","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 : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2182086
Ola Abu-Hasan Nabwani, M. Sharabi
ABSTRACT This article compares work-family conflict (WFC) among more than 2000 married Israeli Jewish and Arab women. The data was taken from Israel Social Surveys and included varied life-course variables that allowed to explore in depth relationships between WFC and family formation. Our findings reveal that Arab women experienced WFC more than Jewish women. Delaying first marriage and first birth and having more children are related to higher WFC. Furthermore, WFC was associated positively with women’s wage and work experience. The implications of the research and recommendations for public policymakers are discussed.
{"title":"Predictors of work-family conflict among married women in Israel","authors":"Ola Abu-Hasan Nabwani, M. Sharabi","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2182086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2182086","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article compares work-family conflict (WFC) among more than 2000 married Israeli Jewish and Arab women. The data was taken from Israel Social Surveys and included varied life-course variables that allowed to explore in depth relationships between WFC and family formation. Our findings reveal that Arab women experienced WFC more than Jewish women. Delaying first marriage and first birth and having more children are related to higher WFC. Furthermore, WFC was associated positively with women’s wage and work experience. The implications of the research and recommendations for public policymakers are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47786676","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 : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2182089
Mor Sobol
ABSTRACT While there has been a growing interest in Israel and Taiwan in intensifying the relationship between the two states and peoples, little heed is being paid by the research literature, which remains scarce and scattered across disciplines (and languages). By way of filling this lacuna, this article offers the first comprehensive overview of the existing Israel-Taiwan literature while illustrating the room for further theory and policy-oriented research and making recommendations as to how to further develop the study area.
{"title":"From Jerusalem to Taipei: literature review and future research agenda","authors":"Mor Sobol","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2182089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2182089","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While there has been a growing interest in Israel and Taiwan in intensifying the relationship between the two states and peoples, little heed is being paid by the research literature, which remains scarce and scattered across disciplines (and languages). By way of filling this lacuna, this article offers the first comprehensive overview of the existing Israel-Taiwan literature while illustrating the room for further theory and policy-oriented research and making recommendations as to how to further develop the study area.","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43934704","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 : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2182461
Eyal Berelovich, R. Kark
ABSTRACT Though forming having taken an active part in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns of the World War I, the Bedouin tribes are rarely mentioned. This is due in part to the scarcity of documentation, especially having none from the Bedouins themselves. This article seeks to fill in some of the gaps in the research on the war in the Sinai Peninsula and southern Palestine, and to examine the contribution of the Bedouin tribes in that area to the Ottoman military campaign. It argues that the Ottoman perception of the Bedouins as a fighting force changed during the war from being seen as force multiplier to being employed only in scout and reconnaissance roles.
{"title":"The Sinai Bedouins and the Ottoman army in World War I","authors":"Eyal Berelovich, R. Kark","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2182461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2182461","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Though forming having taken an active part in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns of the World War I, the Bedouin tribes are rarely mentioned. This is due in part to the scarcity of documentation, especially having none from the Bedouins themselves. This article seeks to fill in some of the gaps in the research on the war in the Sinai Peninsula and southern Palestine, and to examine the contribution of the Bedouin tribes in that area to the Ottoman military campaign. It argues that the Ottoman perception of the Bedouins as a fighting force changed during the war from being seen as force multiplier to being employed only in scout and reconnaissance roles.","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47839182","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 : 2023-02-23DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2182473
D. Rodman
{"title":"For the freedom of Zion: the great revolt of Jews against Romans, 66–74 CE","authors":"D. Rodman","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2182473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2182473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43040664","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 : 2023-02-23DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2182091
Oren Asman, Ido Zelkovitz
ABSTRACT The activity of the Shari’a Court in Israel reflects a complex reality of ‘legal hybridity’. The Muslim tribunal serving the traditional Arab community is influenced by local circumstances and processes of internal change alongside the influence of Western modern culture. As a result, legal rulings and Shari’a terms that may sometimes express conservative perceptions operate alongside general state law that may sometimes reflect other perceptions. In this article, decisions of Shari’a courts in Israel are examined on questions of ‘legal competence’ in a sample of 24 cases from four Israeli local Shari’a courts as well as a couple of decisions from the Shari’a Court of Appeals (between 1993 and 2009). In view of competence being a key legal issue, examining the court decisions on this issue makes it possible to examine the complexity of the application of Israeli law and Shari’a law within a system of courts that on the one hand, are integral to the state’s formal legal system while on the other they see themselves as representatives of the Muslim minority and its culture.
{"title":"Legal competence in Shari’a courts in Israel","authors":"Oren Asman, Ido Zelkovitz","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2182091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2182091","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The activity of the Shari’a Court in Israel reflects a complex reality of ‘legal hybridity’. The Muslim tribunal serving the traditional Arab community is influenced by local circumstances and processes of internal change alongside the influence of Western modern culture. As a result, legal rulings and Shari’a terms that may sometimes express conservative perceptions operate alongside general state law that may sometimes reflect other perceptions. In this article, decisions of Shari’a courts in Israel are examined on questions of ‘legal competence’ in a sample of 24 cases from four Israeli local Shari’a courts as well as a couple of decisions from the Shari’a Court of Appeals (between 1993 and 2009). In view of competence being a key legal issue, examining the court decisions on this issue makes it possible to examine the complexity of the application of Israeli law and Shari’a law within a system of courts that on the one hand, are integral to the state’s formal legal system while on the other they see themselves as representatives of the Muslim minority and its culture.","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48788504","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 : 2023-02-23DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2181592
E. Friesel
ABSTRACT The social and cultural integration of the Jews into Western society was a central paradigm of modern Jewry. Presently, ideological changes in sectors of ‘progressive’ Western society regarding the Jewish state and the Jews, as well as political and cultural tendencies in Israel, are unsettling the parameters of that paradigm, bringing up new tensions between non-Jews and Jews and changing Jewish profiles. Such multifaceted developments should be understood in the framework of the broader tendencies in Jewish history.
{"title":"Jewish identity in the early 21st-century: the fissures in the integration paradigm","authors":"E. Friesel","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2181592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2181592","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The social and cultural integration of the Jews into Western society was a central paradigm of modern Jewry. Presently, ideological changes in sectors of ‘progressive’ Western society regarding the Jewish state and the Jews, as well as political and cultural tendencies in Israel, are unsettling the parameters of that paradigm, bringing up new tensions between non-Jews and Jews and changing Jewish profiles. Such multifaceted developments should be understood in the framework of the broader tendencies in Jewish history.","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42220170","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 : 2023-02-23DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2182087
A. K. Gupta
ABSTRACT In the wake of the October 1973 war, Moscow sought superpower collaboration that would ensure its participation in the nascent Arab-Israel peace process, but the direct Israeli-Egyptian negotiations that culminated in the September 1978 Camp David Accords foiled this plan. As a result, the Soviets launched a diplomatic offensive against the deal and tried to forge an Arab front to isolate Egypt, only to see Cairo and Jerusalem signing a fully fledged peace treaty in March 1979. Then came the Iran–Iraq war (1980–88) and further shattered Moscow’s Middle Eastern stance as fears of Tehran’s hegemonic designs led to Egypt’s reincorporation into the Arab fold.
{"title":"Moscow and the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David Accords","authors":"A. K. Gupta","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2182087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2182087","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the wake of the October 1973 war, Moscow sought superpower collaboration that would ensure its participation in the nascent Arab-Israel peace process, but the direct Israeli-Egyptian negotiations that culminated in the September 1978 Camp David Accords foiled this plan. As a result, the Soviets launched a diplomatic offensive against the deal and tried to forge an Arab front to isolate Egypt, only to see Cairo and Jerusalem signing a fully fledged peace treaty in March 1979. Then came the Iran–Iraq war (1980–88) and further shattered Moscow’s Middle Eastern stance as fears of Tehran’s hegemonic designs led to Egypt’s reincorporation into the Arab fold.","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44228981","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 : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2182470
D. Rodman
{"title":"David Ben-Gurion and the foundation of Israeli democracy","authors":"D. Rodman","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2182470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2182470","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42299742","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 : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2181597
Nimrod Tal
ABSTRACT Unearthing a key chapter in the development of Israeli history education, this article explores history-teaching at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, one of Israel’s foremost schools, in the wake of the 1973 Yom Kippur War and against the backdrop of attempts made by the Ministry of Education to reform history education in Israel. It shows that in the context of the great social changes that occurred in Israeli society, Reali history teachers felt that their primary mission was to ensure that their students remained closely connected to their collective past.
{"title":"Keepers of the past: history teaching at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in the 1970s","authors":"Nimrod Tal","doi":"10.1080/13537121.2023.2181597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2023.2181597","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Unearthing a key chapter in the development of Israeli history education, this article explores history-teaching at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, one of Israel’s foremost schools, in the wake of the 1973 Yom Kippur War and against the backdrop of attempts made by the Ministry of Education to reform history education in Israel. It shows that in the context of the great social changes that occurred in Israeli society, Reali history teachers felt that their primary mission was to ensure that their students remained closely connected to their collective past.","PeriodicalId":45036,"journal":{"name":"Israel Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44103669","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}