Studies of modern Palestine and Israel usually highlight the struggle of European powers for control and the formation of Jewish and Palestinian nationalisms. This dissertation does otherwise. With a thesis centered on the physical "making of a Holy Land," this work combines the…
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U.S. evangelical Christians have historically been deeply invested observers of events in Israel. This dissertation focuses on U.S. church leaders and their views on mission in Israel/Palestine. The research shows two major themes shape their perspectives on this complex context…
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore technology startup failure in Israel and to identify themes that might indicate the reasons for the low rate of survival. A 2010 report published by Ministry of Industry and Trade in Israel (MITI) showed that …
This study explored the experiences of a small group of Israeli volunteers who responded to a short-term armed conflict affecting civilians. The participants were volunteers during the Second Lebanon War in northern Israel in the summer of 2006. Community-based crises are typica…
Israel has one of the most highly-developed hiking trail networks in the world. It covers the entire country, including the Golan Heights and the West Bank, and its history spans that of the modern State of Israel. However, despite the fact that the marked and mapped trail syste…
In Jewish Studies in general and Jewish literary studies in particular, the autobiography has taken on renewed significance in the twenty-first century. A recent wave of Hebrew autobiographical writing has reinvigorated long-standing debates about the connections between family …
This dissertation consists of three substantive essays. Each essay is rooted in the experiences that I had in conducting a qualitative study on survival within `precarious contexts', using Palestine/Israel as the geographical context. Essay One (Chapter 2) explores, through a co…
Health inequalities exist in many societies and mostly reflect inequalities between social and ethnic/racial groups. This dissertation consists of three independent studies of health inequalities. Each study examines a different source of inequality and focuses on a particular h…
This dissertation questions the making of the Israeli distinction between Arabs and Jews through the eyes of 3-6 year old children in a bilingual preschool program in the city of Be'er Sheva. The primary method used is a year-long ethnography of the school, consisting of partici…
This dissertation studies aesthetic, political and ethical dimensions of the representation of Holocaust perpetrators in Hebrew and Israeli fiction published since the mid-1940s. Drawing on recent scholarship by Holocaust historians, such as Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldh…
My dissertation investigates the nature of the religious culture of Israeli Jews who trace their ancestry to the Lands of Islam, commonly referred to collectively as "Sephardim," as it has been reconstructed within the elementary, middle, and high schools affiliated or associate…
Le conflit israélo-palestinien constitue l’un des thèmes les plus abordés par les chercheurs de plusieurs disciplines en sciences sociales et humaines. Cette thèse s’intéresse toutefois plus particulièrement à l’effet des restrictions frontalières israéliennes dans les territoir…
The goal of this thesis is to understand and measure strategic behavior in proportional representation systems. Chapter one provides an empirical strategy to quantify strategic voting in such systems. Using pre-electoral survey data, it measures the degree of strategic voting in…
In 1994 Israel passed the National Health Insurance Law (NHIL), guaranteeing universal and equal healthcare services to all citizens. Universal healthcare, while unprecedented in Israel, did not have a significant impact on the country's Jewish majority. Yet for minority citizen…
Since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Syria and Iran have maintained a strategic alliance. Syria supported Iran throughout the Iran-Iraq war and Iran has been one of Syria’s strongest supporters in the conflict with Israel. Throughout this period, the alliance has endured attemp…
President Lyndon Baines Johnson was responsible for decisively turning American policy towards the State of Israel from one of lukewarm acceptance and recognition of its right to exist towards an unabashedly pro-Israeli stance that sought to take partial responsibility for Israe…
Throughout history, walls and fences have served to secure and defend populations by reconfiguring the political-economic sphere. The objective of this thesis is to identify and examine the various functions of border security walls in the contemporary solidification of capitali…
The purpose of the present thesis is to investigate how socially embedded interpretations of Israeli identity influence Israel's warring foreign policy towards Palestinians and conversely, how this warring foreign policy contributes to securing and stabilizing the underlying ide…
Religion and spirituality are important to many and can have both positive and negative influences on psychological functioning and interpersonal relationships. While prior empirical studies suggest that religion generally influences relationships positively, differences in valu…