U Lebel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 9390 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | U Lebel |
| NOMBRES | U |
| APELLIDO | Lebel |
| FIRMA | LEBEL U |
| AFILIACIONES | Ariel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0964-019X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 135 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Israel in an era of political victimisation
This special issue is published two years after 7 October 2023 and the start of the ‘Iron Swords’ War – the first war in Israeli history taking place in parallel to a divisive social climate. On 6 ...
Health and Victimology – a discipline evolution based on three Generational Research Communities
Dying Was Never a Preference’ – Post-War Ethical Discourse (PWED)
Modern case studies are presented to show how the idea of war in Western societies is legitimized through an ethical script by which war and warfare result in few losses to both sides. A Post-War Ethical Discourse model is used to describe the prevalent postwar condition of casualty aversion, by which modern leaderships attempt to convince the public of the need to justify the idea of military empowerment and to legitimize the idea of war, throug…
Sexual liberation and religious obligation – the ‘liquid authenticity’ of ‘traditionalist’ bachelorettes in the Israeli dating scene
Following Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of ‘Liquid Modernity’, the term ‘Liquid Authenticity’ is ascribed to a community that holds a type of identity known in Israel as ‘traditional’ and does not purely conform with either the secular or religious identity categories. This concept is examined through an ethno-phenomenological study of female university students who identify with this category and go out on numerous dates through dating apps. These wo…
The Chain of Hebrew Soldiers”
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the educational and religious tensions that emerged during a five-day biblical seminar run by the Israel Defense Forces’ Identity and Jewish Consciousness Unit. We argue that despite the official focus on professionalization as a pedagogical parameter, the seminar participants themselves reacted to biblical narratives in ways that indicate a distinct kind of personal and individualized discourse. …
Life Scripts, Counter Scripts and Online Videos
Life Scripts and Counter Scripts are used to illustrate the struggle by Israel's Nationalist-Ultra-Orthodox Rabbinical authorities within the Zionist-religious community against military service for women. Following years in which the army had been out of bounds for the normative life scripts of the community's women, the enlistment of women was relatively legitimized and normalized (although still far from becoming mainstream). These women ident…
Chinese ‘Soft Power Pipelines Diffusion’ (SPPD) to the Middle Eastern Arab Countries 2000-2018
The article examines China’s ‘soft power’ invested in Middle Eastern countries from 2000 to 2018 by offering three main ‘Soft Power Pipelines Diffusion’ (SPPD): the media, popular culture and education. The paper focuses not only on China’s soft presence but also on the response and reception of its power in Middle Eastern Arab countries. China’s soft power presence and efforts were found to be efficient and to contribute to China’s image in the …
Chinese Soft-Power in the Arab world – China’s Confucius Institutes as a central tool of influence
Confucius Institutes are one of the major ways China invests Soft-Power in the world. This paper will examine the Confucius Institutes in universities in Arabic speaking countries from 2006 to 2020. It will focus on the response and reception of China’s Soft-Power in these countries. An initial index for examining the success of these institutes will be offered, which can also be applied to educational-cultural institutes in general. The followin…
Influence from within? Senior managers from the Religious-Zionist community in the public administration – a phenomenological research
The article examines whether or not senior managers in public administration who belong to the Religious-Zionist community operate as effective Policy Injection Agents – adopting the ‘Influence from within’ ethos that makes them a part of a policy community – or whether they perceive this discourse in another way. Thirty-five interviews with senior public administrators pertaining to the Religious-Zionist community were analysed based on the prin…
Mahapach!’
As simplistic and self-evident as it may seem, the 1977 political upheaval in Israel is important on two different levels, each in itself sufficient for defining it as one of the most dramatic mome
Exempted soldiers’ in the ‘New Sensitivity Military’
In recent decades (the ̳post-heroic‘ condition) - threats of widespread selective conscientious objection have become a political tool to advance opposing political agendas in Israel. This article examines attitudes amongst the Israeli public concerning the legitimacy of demands that different groups of soldiers be exempted from military operations to which they are ideologically opposed (such as serving in the occupied territories or, conversely…
Backstage Autonomy
The article examines the coping mechanisms of state widows belonging to Israel’s Religious-Zionist sector, whose husbands died at an early age either during military service or in terrorist attacks. While the national bereaved community’s collective unconscious expects the widows to dedicate their lives to institutionalized commemoration of their dead husband, Jewish tradition expects them to remarry to rehabilitate their family and children. The…
De-militarization as political self-marginalization
In the elections for the 19th and 20th Knesset, the Labor Party fared badly. The party list for these two election campaigns was almost completely devoid of ‘bithonistim’ – members of the Israeli security elite (MISEs). The article examines the placement of MISEs on the Labor Party list from 1977 up until the 2015 elections. It shows how, from the establishment of the state, the Labor Party was the natural home of MISEs, thereby becoming the domi…
The 'immunized integration' of Religious-Zionists within Israeli society
The article examines the process of establishment of pre-military academies amongst Religious-Zionist society in Israel. The phenomenon is discussed as a transition from a model of a gated community to an ‘immunized’ community. Through institutionalization of psycho-social ideological preparation, the community leadership is trying to ensure that community members maintain their identity and loyalty when they integrate into general society. The a…
Settling the Military
The article describes the establishment of the pre-military academies in Judea and Samaria as cultural agents preceding the militaristic habitus of these areas. It follows the development of the security epistemic community in these areas which formed a new identity of the settlers. The increase of religious-Zionist youth in combat units and officer courses in the IDF due to these academies altered the positioning of the settlers and all religiou…
Introduction
Ever since the Six Day War (1967), the way in which the territories in Judea, Samaria and Gaza are viewed has been a central issue in Israeli politics. Even the name given to these areas is a bone
Blackmailing the army' - 'Strategic Military Refusal' as policy and doctrine enforcement
The study shows how ‘strategic military refusal’ in Israel developed as a rational and institutional means to influence security policies. As opposed to the perspective that sees military refusal as a spontaneous individual act, the study illustrates how organizations operate to distribute military refusal in order to pressure decision-makers to change their military policies. This strategy has proven to be effective when the military is involved…
Politics of Memory
This book illustrates how a dominant political party, the Mapai, under the leadership of P.M. David Ben-Gurion, chose to ‘hug,’ honor and commemorate ‘Her Fallen’ and ‘Her Bereaved Families,’ whilst simultaneously ignoring the fallen that were identified with the rival political party, Herut, led by Menachem Begin. Designing legislation and cultural policy designated for Teaching the public that those who sacrificed themselves in the Israeli War …
Second Class Loss”
Israeli families of terrorist victims have undertaken initiatives to include their dearest in the national pantheon. The objections opposed the penetration of "second-class loss" into the symbolic closure of heroic national bereavement. The "hierarchy of bereavement" is examined through the lens of political culture organized around the veneration held for the army fallen and their families, which has symbolic as well as rehabilitative outcomes. …
Penetrating the ‘black‐box’ of ‘remembrance day’ playlist
This article examines the musical repertoire broadcast onIsraeli state radio stations onRemembranceDay. Commencing with the firstRemembranceDay,Israeli radio stations have refrained from broadcasting songs that do not contribute to the glorification of the military mythology or failure to reinforce the consensual perception of national loss. In view of globalization – it might be assumed thatRemembranceDay songs would undergo changes in tune with…
Politicizing Memory
This paper argues that hegemonic memorial ceremonies are typically based on the practice and discourse of de-politicization of the 'Israeli condition'. Three mechanisms serve such de-politicization: rendering death meaningful; idealizing the fallen and focusing on their transcendental as opposed to their corporeal side and the sanctification of time. Ceremonies featuring these mechanisms are paradigmatic events that perpetuate the hegemonic model…
Militarism versus Security? The Double-Bind of Israel's Culture of Bereavement and Hierarchy of Sensitivity to Loss
Can there be any contradiction between militarism and security? This paper explores the implications of a derivative of cultural militarism in Israel – the panic set off by military casualties – and shows that it undermines the value of security and, in the process, prevents the army from providing civilians with security. Recent research into military policy and doctrine and conduct cites the phenomenon of phobia over losses, with accompanying m…
Panopticon of Death
Individual behaviors, such as loss-coping and 'grief work' are affected in organizational contexts. In everything pertaining to coping with trauma in general, and loss more particularly, the individual is 'trapped' within a political psychology that enforces the habitus and expectations of institutional dominance on the ostensibly intimate and private response. Regimes have perceived bereavement over battlefield deaths as a form of social capital…
Casualty Panic”
This article addresses the issue of what defines “Casualty Panic,” which in recent years has impacted upon military policy in liberal-democratic states. The author claims that the hesitation to enter into military engagements for fear of incurring casualties is a consequence of “moral panic” among the political and military leadership. This moral panic is engendered by elite groups who have ready access to the media and key political decision-mak…
Perceptions of suicide and their impact on policy, discourse and welfare
In recent years, there has been an increase in suicide rates throughout the Western world. However, psycho-social responses to the problem are limited, as is public awareness of suicide and its consequences. This article presents findings from a survey on public attitudes toward suicide in Israel. The survey was conducted among a representative sample, and examined the extent to which the problem is a public priority for developing interventions …
Second Class Loss”
Israeli families of terrorist victims have undertaken initiatives to include their dearest in the national pantheon. The objections opposed the penetration of "second-class loss" into the symbolic closure of heroic national bereavement. The "hierarchy of bereavement" is examined through the lens of political culture organized around the veneration held for the army fallen and their families, which has symbolic as well as rehabilitative outcomes. …
Civil Society versus Military Sovereignty
From its inception and throughout the military sovereignty era, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were endowed with a religious status. In Israeli society, bereaved parents of fallen soldiers enjoyed a special relationship with the army, and their bereavement afforded them a unique place in the shaping of public opinion about security policy. However, as this paper shows, after the first Lebanon War (1982) cracks began to appear in this special uni…
Panopticon of Death
Individual behaviors, such as loss-coping and 'grief work' are affected in organizational contexts. In everything pertaining to coping with trauma in general, and loss more particularly, the individual is 'trapped' within a political psychology that enforces the habitus and expectations of institutional dominance on the ostensibly intimate and private response. Regimes have perceived bereavement over battlefield deaths as a form of social capital…
The Emotional Reengineering of Loss
This article deals with the role of bereaved parents' anger as a motivating force for political and public activism. After reviewing the place of anger in the experience of processing loss and bereavement and presenting anger as a factor that leads to public initiative, the article deals with the place that anger occupies in the bereaved sector of Israeli society. The claim is made that Israeli society has changed since its early years, when “the…
The 'immunized integration' of Religious-Zionists within Israeli society
The article examines the process of establishment of pre-military academies amongst Religious-Zionist society in Israel. The phenomenon is discussed as a transition from a model of a gated community to an ‘immunized’ community. Through institutionalization of psycho-social ideological preparation, the community leadership is trying to ensure that community members maintain their identity and loyalty when they integrate into general society. The a…
Settling the Military
The article describes the establishment of the pre-military academies in Judea and Samaria as cultural agents preceding the militaristic habitus of these areas. It follows the development of the security epistemic community in these areas which formed a new identity of the settlers. The increase of religious-Zionist youth in combat units and officer courses in the IDF due to these academies altered the positioning of the settlers and all religiou…
Postmortem Politics
This article discusses the connection between the political behaviour model of bereavement in Israel and the ability of the military to preserve its hegemonic standing under a veil of secrecy unchallenged by civil criticism. After the War of Independence (1948), with its heavy military death toll, a model of hegemonic bereavement made its appearance. A nationalist/collectivist ideology geared to nation‐building fostered widespread support of gove…
Penetrating the Shields of Institutional Immunity
To understand and overcome the tendency of public organizations to conceal information, this article analyses the dynamic interaction between a new social movement and the Israeli defence establishment. The study shows how parents whose children were killed in training and operational accidents while serving in the military form social movements to force the latter to release information concerning these accidents. In doing so parents define pers…
The Post-Oslo Israeli Populist Radical Right in Comparative Perspective
This paper analyses transformations within the Israeli radical right in the era of the “Oslo war”: Palestinian terror attacks which began as a response to the Oslo agreements. Those terror activities have reshaped the Israeli political right wing, which transferred itself to what we call the “new” Israeli right. Politically and socially the “new right” became similar to right-wing movements that emerged in Europe in the nineties. The paper examin…
De-militarization as political self-marginalization
In the elections for the 19th and 20th Knesset, the Labor Party fared badly. The party list for these two election campaigns was almost completely devoid of ‘bithonistim’ – members of the Israeli security elite (MISEs). The article examines the placement of MISEs on the Labor Party list from 1977 up until the 2015 elections. It shows how, from the establishment of the state, the Labor Party was the natural home of MISEs, thereby becoming the domi…
The Creation of the Israeli ‘Political Bereavement Model’—Security Crises and their Influence on the Public Behaviour of Loss
Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 the matter of bereavement has constituted a central plank in the shaping of relations between civil society and the defence and political esta
Chinese Soft-Power in the Arab world – China’s Confucius Institutes as a central tool of influence
Confucius Institutes are one of the major ways China invests Soft-Power in the world. This paper will examine the Confucius Institutes in universities in Arabic speaking countries from 2006 to 2020. It will focus on the response and reception of China’s Soft-Power in these countries. An initial index for examining the success of these institutes will be offered, which can also be applied to educational-cultural institutes in general. The followin…
Casualty Panic”
This article addresses the issue of what defines “Casualty Panic,” which in recent years has impacted upon military policy in liberal-democratic states. The author claims that the hesitation to enter into military engagements for fear of incurring casualties is a consequence of “moral panic” among the political and military leadership. This moral panic is engendered by elite groups who have ready access to the media and key political decision-mak…
Chinese ‘Soft Power Pipelines Diffusion’ (SPPD) to the Middle Eastern Arab Countries 2000-2018
The article examines China’s ‘soft power’ invested in Middle Eastern countries from 2000 to 2018 by offering three main ‘Soft Power Pipelines Diffusion’ (SPPD): the media, popular culture and education. The paper focuses not only on China’s soft presence but also on the response and reception of its power in Middle Eastern Arab countries. China’s soft power presence and efforts were found to be efficient and to contribute to China’s image in the …
Backstage Autonomy
The article examines the coping mechanisms of state widows belonging to Israel’s Religious-Zionist sector, whose husbands died at an early age either during military service or in terrorist attacks. While the national bereaved community’s collective unconscious expects the widows to dedicate their lives to institutionalized commemoration of their dead husband, Jewish tradition expects them to remarry to rehabilitate their family and children. The…
Blackmailing the army' - 'Strategic Military Refusal' as policy and doctrine enforcement
The study shows how ‘strategic military refusal’ in Israel developed as a rational and institutional means to influence security policies. As opposed to the perspective that sees military refusal as a spontaneous individual act, the study illustrates how organizations operate to distribute military refusal in order to pressure decision-makers to change their military policies. This strategy has proven to be effective when the military is involved…
Penetrating the ‘black‐box’ of ‘remembrance day’ playlist
This article examines the musical repertoire broadcast onIsraeli state radio stations onRemembranceDay. Commencing with the firstRemembranceDay,Israeli radio stations have refrained from broadcasting songs that do not contribute to the glorification of the military mythology or failure to reinforce the consensual perception of national loss. In view of globalization – it might be assumed thatRemembranceDay songs would undergo changes in tune with…
Militarism versus Security? The Double-Bind of Israel's Culture of Bereavement and Hierarchy of Sensitivity to Loss
Can there be any contradiction between militarism and security? This paper explores the implications of a derivative of cultural militarism in Israel – the panic set off by military casualties – and shows that it undermines the value of security and, in the process, prevents the army from providing civilians with security. Recent research into military policy and doctrine and conduct cites the phenomenon of phobia over losses, with accompanying m…
Exile from national identity
Historiography and national memory are not social institutions that formed spontaneously, democratically or pluralistically, but rational projects featuring power relationships, shaped by actors promoting political interests through it and legitimizing their preferential social status and political dominance. The research follows the Israeli Labor Movement's attempts to present the statehood project and the war for independence as achievements ow…
When parents lay their children to rest
A hermeneutic-phenomenological study of 13 bereaved parents of fallen soldiers or victims of terrorism describes their grief, anger, and forgiveness in relation to their struggle with personal loss. The findings indicate anger as a major variable among participants, aroused by three sources: (i) the circumstances of the loss; (ii) the institutionalized response to the loss; and (iii) a certain policy and its makers. A salient finding is that the …
Parental Discourse and Activism as a Response to Bereavement of Fallen Sons and Civilian Terrorist Victims
This study is a phenomenological exploration of bereavement among a population of Israeli parents who became demonstratively activist following the death of their offspring either as soldiers in the line of duty or as victims of terrorism. It illuminates how an anger-forgiveness continuum gives a politically charged significance to the bereavement experience regardless of party or ideological orientation. Strong nationalist identification with th…
Exempted soldiers’ in the ‘New Sensitivity Military’
In recent decades (the ̳post-heroic‘ condition) - threats of widespread selective conscientious objection have become a political tool to advance opposing political agendas in Israel. This article examines attitudes amongst the Israeli public concerning the legitimacy of demands that different groups of soldiers be exempted from military operations to which they are ideologically opposed (such as serving in the occupied territories or, conversely…
From ‘Fighting Family’ to ‘Belligerent Families
The army–family relationship is vital for control by a state aware that the family is the central agent influencing their son to enlist. A historically 'affectionate' relationship prevailed between Israel's army and families. During and after the Yom Kippur War, families of captive and missing soldiers, and bereaved families, adopted 'new' social behaviors. They organized in an institutionalized manner, clashing with the establishment. Our resear…
Marshalling a second career
This article discusses a phenomenon that gained prominence in the 1990s, namely the entry of retired senior Israeli army officers as managers into the educational system. This development will be analyzed through an exposure of the socio‐educational mechanisms contributing to this process and an examination of the motivations underlying it. These motivations appear to be related to two circumstances encountered by the military profession in the 1…
Influence from within? Senior managers from the Religious-Zionist community in the public administration – a phenomenological research
The article examines whether or not senior managers in public administration who belong to the Religious-Zionist community operate as effective Policy Injection Agents – adopting the ‘Influence from within’ ethos that makes them a part of a policy community – or whether they perceive this discourse in another way. Thirty-five interviews with senior public administrators pertaining to the Religious-Zionist community were analysed based on the prin…
Penetrating the Shields of Institutional Immunity
To understand and overcome the tendency of public organizations to conceal information, this article analyses the dynamic interaction between a new social movement and the Israeli defence establishment. The study shows how parents whose children were killed in training and operational accidents while serving in the military form social movements to force the latter to release information concerning these accidents. In doing so parents define pers…
Marshalling a second career
This article discusses a phenomenon that gained prominence in the 1990s, namely the entry of retired senior Israeli army officers as managers into the educational system. This development will be analyzed through an exposure of the socio‐educational mechanisms contributing to this process and an examination of the motivations underlying it. These motivations appear to be related to two circumstances encountered by the military profession in the 1…
Parental Discourse and Activism as a Response to Bereavement of Fallen Sons and Civilian Terrorist Victims
This study is a phenomenological exploration of bereavement among a population of Israeli parents who became demonstratively activist following the death of their offspring either as soldiers in the line of duty or as victims of terrorism. It illuminates how an anger-forgiveness continuum gives a politically charged significance to the bereavement experience regardless of party or ideological orientation. Strong nationalist identification with th…
The Post-Oslo Israeli Populist Radical Right in Comparative Perspective
This paper analyses transformations within the Israeli radical right in the era of the “Oslo war”: Palestinian terror attacks which began as a response to the Oslo agreements. Those terror activities have reshaped the Israeli political right wing, which transferred itself to what we call the “new” Israeli right. Politically and socially the “new right” became similar to right-wing movements that emerged in Europe in the nineties. The paper examin…
Beyond the Pantheon
Drawing upon Hobsbawm's explorations of the invention of tradition, this study illustrates the ways and means by which Israel's Mapai party, which dominated the State's political institutions during its first three decades, formulated ritualized frameworks for bereavement and commemoration of the military dead. Two objectives infused state remembrance of the fallen: a conscious effort to associate Mapai, under the leadership of David Ben-Gurion, …
“Whom to blame?” The Culture of Loss Following Crisis
This article delineates three models of public behavior exhibited by parents of fallen soldiers in Israel: the "hegemonic bereavement model" that emerged after the War of Independence (1948); the "political bereavement model" that appeared in the wake of the Yom Kippur War (1973); the "no‐confidence model" that materialized following major accidents and revelations of negligence during the 1990s. These paradigmatic behaviors emerge in the wake of…
Postmortem Politics
This article discusses the connection between the political behaviour model of bereavement in Israel and the ability of the military to preserve its hegemonic standing under a veil of secrecy unchallenged by civil criticism. After the War of Independence (1948), with its heavy military death toll, a model of hegemonic bereavement made its appearance. A nationalist/collectivist ideology geared to nation‐building fostered widespread support of gove…
The Creation of the Israeli ‘Political Bereavement Model’—Security Crises and their Influence on the Public Behaviour of Loss
Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 the matter of bereavement has constituted a central plank in the shaping of relations between civil society and the defence and political esta
When parents lay their children to rest
A hermeneutic-phenomenological study of 13 bereaved parents of fallen soldiers or victims of terrorism describes their grief, anger, and forgiveness in relation to their struggle with personal loss. The findings indicate anger as a major variable among participants, aroused by three sources: (i) the circumstances of the loss; (ii) the institutionalized response to the loss; and (iii) a certain policy and its makers. A salient finding is that the …
Civil Society versus Military Sovereignty
From its inception and throughout the military sovereignty era, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were endowed with a religious status. In Israeli society, bereaved parents of fallen soldiers enjoyed a special relationship with the army, and their bereavement afforded them a unique place in the shaping of public opinion about security policy. However, as this paper shows, after the first Lebanon War (1982) cracks began to appear in this special uni…
Exile from national identity
Historiography and national memory are not social institutions that formed spontaneously, democratically or pluralistically, but rational projects featuring power relationships, shaped by actors promoting political interests through it and legitimizing their preferential social status and political dominance. The research follows the Israeli Labor Movement's attempts to present the statehood project and the war for independence as achievements ow…
The Emotional Reengineering of Loss
This article deals with the role of bereaved parents' anger as a motivating force for political and public activism. After reviewing the place of anger in the experience of processing loss and bereavement and presenting anger as a factor that leads to public initiative, the article deals with the place that anger occupies in the bereaved sector of Israeli society. The claim is made that Israeli society has changed since its early years, when “the…
From ‘Fighting Family’ to ‘Belligerent Families
The army–family relationship is vital for control by a state aware that the family is the central agent influencing their son to enlist. A historically 'affectionate' relationship prevailed between Israel's army and families. During and after the Yom Kippur War, families of captive and missing soldiers, and bereaved families, adopted 'new' social behaviors. They organized in an institutionalized manner, clashing with the establishment. Our resear…
Casualty Panic”
This article addresses the issue of what defines “Casualty Panic,” which in recent years has impacted upon military policy in liberal-democratic states. The author claims that the hesitation to enter into military engagements for fear of incurring casualties is a consequence of “moral panic” among the political and military leadership. This moral panic is engendered by elite groups who have ready access to the media and key political decision-mak…
Perceptions of suicide and their impact on policy, discourse and welfare
In recent years, there has been an increase in suicide rates throughout the Western world. However, psycho-social responses to the problem are limited, as is public awareness of suicide and its consequences. This article presents findings from a survey on public attitudes toward suicide in Israel. The survey was conducted among a representative sample, and examined the extent to which the problem is a public priority for developing interventions …
Militarism versus Security? The Double-Bind of Israel's Culture of Bereavement and Hierarchy of Sensitivity to Loss
Can there be any contradiction between militarism and security? This paper explores the implications of a derivative of cultural militarism in Israel – the panic set off by military casualties – and shows that it undermines the value of security and, in the process, prevents the army from providing civilians with security. Recent research into military policy and doctrine and conduct cites the phenomenon of phobia over losses, with accompanying m…
Panopticon of Death
Individual behaviors, such as loss-coping and 'grief work' are affected in organizational contexts. In everything pertaining to coping with trauma in general, and loss more particularly, the individual is 'trapped' within a political psychology that enforces the habitus and expectations of institutional dominance on the ostensibly intimate and private response. Regimes have perceived bereavement over battlefield deaths as a form of social capital…
Politicizing Memory
This paper argues that hegemonic memorial ceremonies are typically based on the practice and discourse of de-politicization of the 'Israeli condition'. Three mechanisms serve such de-politicization: rendering death meaningful; idealizing the fallen and focusing on their transcendental as opposed to their corporeal side and the sanctification of time. Ceremonies featuring these mechanisms are paradigmatic events that perpetuate the hegemonic model…
Politics of Memory
This book illustrates how a dominant political party, the Mapai, under the leadership of P.M. David Ben-Gurion, chose to ‘hug,’ honor and commemorate ‘Her Fallen’ and ‘Her Bereaved Families,’ whilst simultaneously ignoring the fallen that were identified with the rival political party, Herut, led by Menachem Begin. Designing legislation and cultural policy designated for Teaching the public that those who sacrificed themselves in the Israeli War …
Second Class Loss”
Israeli families of terrorist victims have undertaken initiatives to include their dearest in the national pantheon. The objections opposed the penetration of "second-class loss" into the symbolic closure of heroic national bereavement. The "hierarchy of bereavement" is examined through the lens of political culture organized around the veneration held for the army fallen and their families, which has symbolic as well as rehabilitative outcomes. …
Penetrating the ‘black‐box’ of ‘remembrance day’ playlist
This article examines the musical repertoire broadcast onIsraeli state radio stations onRemembranceDay. Commencing with the firstRemembranceDay,Israeli radio stations have refrained from broadcasting songs that do not contribute to the glorification of the military mythology or failure to reinforce the consensual perception of national loss. In view of globalization – it might be assumed thatRemembranceDay songs would undergo changes in tune with…
Blackmailing the army' - 'Strategic Military Refusal' as policy and doctrine enforcement
The study shows how ‘strategic military refusal’ in Israel developed as a rational and institutional means to influence security policies. As opposed to the perspective that sees military refusal as a spontaneous individual act, the study illustrates how organizations operate to distribute military refusal in order to pressure decision-makers to change their military policies. This strategy has proven to be effective when the military is involved…
Settling the Military
The article describes the establishment of the pre-military academies in Judea and Samaria as cultural agents preceding the militaristic habitus of these areas. It follows the development of the security epistemic community in these areas which formed a new identity of the settlers. The increase of religious-Zionist youth in combat units and officer courses in the IDF due to these academies altered the positioning of the settlers and all religiou…
Introduction
Ever since the Six Day War (1967), the way in which the territories in Judea, Samaria and Gaza are viewed has been a central issue in Israeli politics. Even the name given to these areas is a bone
De-militarization as political self-marginalization
In the elections for the 19th and 20th Knesset, the Labor Party fared badly. The party list for these two election campaigns was almost completely devoid of ‘bithonistim’ – members of the Israeli security elite (MISEs). The article examines the placement of MISEs on the Labor Party list from 1977 up until the 2015 elections. It shows how, from the establishment of the state, the Labor Party was the natural home of MISEs, thereby becoming the domi…
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