Eyal Lewin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3937060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eyal Lewin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eyal |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewin |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ariel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5461-6634 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Intifada on the Hudson: Why young westerners are turning away from Israel
Lenin, Putin, and Rage Guy: Internet memes in the discourse of a Russian far-right community
A Resilience–Innovation–Education Model as a Key for Survival and Success: A Comparative Israeli Case Study
Start-up and high-tech companies in Israel are recognized as crucial drivers of the nation’s economy and are often viewed as national emblems. Israel ranks third globally in the number of university graduates per capita and boasts the highest concentration of scientists per capita. This technological progress appears paradoxical, considering Israel’s enduring status as a conflict zone since its establishment, along with the significant influx of …
Frying bacon’ or ‘drinking smoothies’? Disparagement humor in the wartime discourse of a Russian far-right online community
The article analyzes the online humorous practices and discursive conventions of a far-right Russian Telegram community during a sociopolitical crisis. A sample of 130 disparagement jokes is examined to find out how existential uncertainty, created by the outbreak of a full-scale war, affects the far-right humorous othering. The jokes were published in a Local Crew channel a month before and a month after two moments of the most acute sociopoliti…
One war of many battles: Reframing Israel’s long conflict in Lebanon, 1968–2000
The Independence of Israeli Local Authority in Times of Emergency: Holon Municipality During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the critical role of local authorities in managing public health crises, especially within the constraints of centralized policies. In Israel, this raised questions about the appropriate level of local autonomy during emergencies. This study examines Holon Municipality as a case study, using Andreas Ladner’s Local Autonomy Index ( LAI ) and interviews with twelve senior municipal managers conducted in early 2022.…
The non‐dormant beast: Antisemitism in communities of Russian nationalists on Vkontakte
The article explores the specifics of Russian antisemitic discourse of recent years using the example of three nationalist communities on Vkontakte, the most popular Russian social networking site, by means of critical discourse analysis. The main strategies they employ to frame the Jews online are stereotyping Jews as ungrateful and greedy, labelling the liberal opposition as Jews and using conspiracy narratives of Jews controlling the elites. T…
Palestinian society in the West Bank: Trust and self-sacrifice
analysts strive to predict future scenarios of the Palestinian-israeli conflict, concentrating on the question of whether Palestinians will be willing to pay the costs of violent struggle.in contrast with various policy assessments, this paper takes political trust as a factor that enables us to anticipate Palestinian social reactions as a point of departure.We interviewed 90 West Bank inhabitants, focusing on six major issues: the armed struggle…
The manipulative evolution of Muslim and Jewish narratives regarding the Temple Mount
For decades now, Jerusalem has been the point of collision between Israeli and Palestinian narratives, leading to perpetual rounds of violence. This research is concerned with the spiritual origins of this violence. Therefore, its purpose is to explore the evolution of Jewish and Muslim narratives regarding the Temple Mount. Inquiring into the various layers of these narratives, particularly their religious components, one finds how some were gra…
Right-Wing Safe Space' Versus 'Comrade Major: Media Ideologies of Far-Right Russian Social Media Users
A significant part of far-right activities worldwide take place within the media ecosystem formed by accounts and communities on social media platforms. Drawing on the media ideology approach, this study investigates how far-right Russian internet users perceive various social media platforms and how their sociopolitical beliefs affect these perceptions. Based on a series of in-depth semi-structured interviews, we argue that far-right users asses…
The Arab Woman In Israel In A Tight Spot: Academia And Career Versus Marriage And Family
This study concentrates on the impact that marriage has on the personal development of Israeli Arab women in the field of higher education and employment. These women are a minority within a minority as they belong to Israel's Arab ethnic community but are also a gender-segregated minority within their patriarchal society. Whereas other studies touch on the overall struggle of Arab women to reach personal fulfillment despite intense family life, …
Bridging the gaps between Holocaust accounts: Fieldwork evidence for compromising forms of narrative
This research discusses whether various educational approaches can bridge the wide gaps between national narratives of the Holocaust, augmented by the Act on the IPN: 44, and the reactions that followed it in Israel, Poland, and the West. We start with a brief account of the Polish narrative of the World War II experience, and the Israeli narrative of the Holocaust. We then give an account from the field: during January and February 2020, we visi…
Israeli Students’ Evaluations Regarding Leadership Education in Post-Primary Schools
This article examines the way students attending middle and high schools in Israel evaluate leadership education in their schools and the extent to which it contributes to their leader self-efficacy. Based on 376 questionnaires completed by teenage girls (n = 243) and boys (n = 133) who attend middle and high school in the public education system in Israel, it focuses on their perceptions regarding their school as their main leadership developmen…
Female violence in terror attacks: A phenomenological analysis based on evidence from the “Intifada of the Individuals”
Was the 1982 Lebanon War a Deviation from Israeli Security Doctrine
On June 6, 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon with the aim of destroying the military infrastructure of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which was serving as a launching pad for terrorist infiltrations and Katyusha attacks into northern Israel. From its outset, the Israeli public considered the war an exceptional case and a deviation from the “proper” course of Israeli history. Allegedly, unlike other Israeli wars, the 1982 War did not rela…
The "Iron Swords" war and its effect on the perception of the Nakba among the younger generation in Arab society in Israel
This article examines the effect of the war between Israel and Hamas on the perception of the Nakba among members of the younger generation in the Arab society living in Israel. Although the research began before the outbreak of the war, the flight of more than a million Gazan Palestinians from their homes was a catalyst for the examination of this issue because the discourse of the Nakba against the background of scenes similar to those of the w…
National ethos and its role in preserving trauma communities: Observations from the Palestinian uprising 2000 to 2005
This paper sticks to the assumption that conflicts become intractable when contradicting sets of national ethos exist. Therefore, it is essential to comprehend the traits of national ethos. We contend that national ethos comprises three basic themes: a sense of collective victimhood, a feeling of victory, and a sense of universal justice. Based on this theoretical foundation, we took the Israeli and Palestinian mutually negating sets of ethos dur…
Revolution in military affairs - The operation mole cricket 19 as a case study for the technological race during the cold war
The article reviews the development of the modern idea of Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) whose buds appeared after the First World War, matured during the Cold War and demonstrated in 1982 in the First Lebanon War by the Israeli Air Force, and in 1991 in the Iraq War by the American Army. After analyzing the essence of RMA, with reference to the concept of both evolution and revolution of military technologies and doctrines, the article sug…
Military Leadership by Intellectual Officers: A Case Study of the IDF
Morris Janowitz believed that for an army to be victorious it needs to be led by as many intellectual forces as possible, just as any organization needs organizational intellectualism to prosper. It is agreed in scholarly literature that the intellectual must author various articles and manifestos to express their viewpoints, mindset, and philosophy in the public sphere. Based on Janowitz’s belief and using the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) as a c…
The 1982 Lebanon War 40 years on
Forty years after its occurrence, the 1982 Lebanon war remains academically understudied with the received wisdom about the conflict largely based on political and journalistic accounts. According to these accounts, the war was a political ploy by Defence Minister Ariel Sharon and Prime Minister Menachem Begin aimed at achieving far-reaching political goals rather than a defensive attempt to remove the terrorist threat to Israel’s northern areas.…
A Moral Assessment of the Polish Israeli Declaration Following the 2018 Polish Anti-Defamation Law
Aim: This paper focuses on the question to what extent the Netanyahu-Morawiecki joint declaration of June 27, 2018 was indeed a moral one. Ignoring the realpolitik versus ideal politics discourse, our goal is to find out whether solely on an ethical level one can judge the moral qualities of the political concession. Concept: To conduct an ethical judgement process, we took the following steps: (I) A review of the Israeli narrative. (II) A review…
The Social Component of Resilience in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Utilizing Wartime Strategies to Solve Current Problems
This article examines the social components of national resilience as the source of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ability to cope with possibly lethal blows and economic setbacks through four stages: (I) an account of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War and the surprising outcome that left Iran undefeated, (II) a review of several theories that can aid us to analyze Iran’s national resilience ability, (III) an analysis of Iran’s wartime survival using t…
The 1967 war as point of departure for the 1982 war in Lebanon: An uncommon interpretation
Israel’s 1982 war in Lebanon is one of the most controversial events in its history. It is considered the war of Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his defense minister, Ariel Sharon, and hence a war of choice. One of the historical questions concerning that war revolves around its origins. The widespread assumption is that the roots can be found in 1981, the year in which Israel was on the verge of war with both Syria and the PLO. However, this a…
The Use of Internal Governance in the Renewed Kibbutz as a Tool for Social Maintenance and Development
The kibbutzim were established over a century ago, obtaining their power from communist and socialist ideologies. In spite of enormous changes, all over the world as well as in Israel, particularly the collapse of Communism and the rise of a capitalistic liberal Western lifestyle, the kibbutzim have maintained their basic social structure. Consequently, the question this research examines is what exactly are the social mechanisms that have enable…
Post-Holocaust Studies in a Modern Context
"This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area of Post-Holocaust studies. It forms a basic building-brick in the present state of the art, advocating the construction of the newly-born multi-disciplinary discipline of Post-Holocaust studies. It explores this subject from the areas of history, psychology, education, communication, art, theology, and ethics"...
Organizational processes and gender integration in operational military units: An Israel Defense Forces case study
This study examines collective action by men and women in operational military units deployed on Israel's borders. Gender integration is generally perceived by soldiers and commanders in these units as a trivial matter rather than an issue for discussion or a disadvantage. The integration results from organizational qualities, which include military leadership with accumulated experience in gender integration; division of labour between men and w…
Kibbutz Under Fire: Back to the Days of Sickle and Bayonet
For two months during the war in Gaza (summer of 2014) Hamas bombarded the kibbutzim in the vicinity using rockets and mortar shells, and exercising tunnel warfare. A century after its establishment dilemmas about kibbutz life similar to those arising during the decades of struggle were raised by members when they had to stand the test of survival under fire: with rockets and mortars landing should they stay or leave? Consequently, should those w…
The 1967 war as point of departure for the 1982 war in Lebanon: An uncommon interpretation
Israel’s 1982 war in Lebanon is one of the most controversial events in its history. It is considered the war of Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his defense minister, Ariel Sharon, and hence a war of choice. One of the historical questions concerning that war revolves around its origins. The widespread assumption is that the roots can be found in 1981, the year in which Israel was on the verge of war with both Syria and the PLO. However, this a…
The Use of Internal Governance in the Renewed Kibbutz as a Tool for Social Maintenance and Development
The kibbutzim were established over a century ago, obtaining their power from communist and socialist ideologies. In spite of enormous changes, all over the world as well as in Israel, particularly the collapse of Communism and the rise of a capitalistic liberal Western lifestyle, the kibbutzim have maintained their basic social structure. Consequently, the question this research examines is what exactly are the social mechanisms that have enable…
Right-Wing Safe Space' Versus 'Comrade Major: Media Ideologies of Far-Right Russian Social Media Users
A significant part of far-right activities worldwide take place within the media ecosystem formed by accounts and communities on social media platforms. Drawing on the media ideology approach, this study investigates how far-right Russian internet users perceive various social media platforms and how their sociopolitical beliefs affect these perceptions. Based on a series of in-depth semi-structured interviews, we argue that far-right users asses…
National Resilience During War: Refining the Decision-Making Model
In political science, war is generally considered the most traumatic event a nation faces, often posing threats to a nation’s very existence. The challenge of surviving the war may, therefore, prove central to the life of a nation. However, national resilience during war has not yet been fully investigated. National Resilience during War: Refining the Decision-Making Model, by Eyal Lewin, searches for the mechanisms of national resilience through…
Ethos Clash in Israeli Society
Constructive Patriotism in Wartime
As opposed to blind patriotism, a moderate form of constructive patriotism has been depicted in previous research and empirically observed. The major distinction between blind patriotism and constructive patriotism lies in the latter’s capacity for criticism. Our research suggests, however, an additional distinction dividing constructive patriotism into two forms: one form is capable of practical judgment (hence, political constructive patriotism…
The 2013 Israeli elections and historic recurrences
The 2013 election campaign in Israel shows, at first glance, some unanticipated results and unexpected reactions of several political actors. Three events in particular can be noted: (1) the rise of a significant centrist middle-class party; (2) the association of the newly elected right-wing Prime Minister with his left-wing rivals; and (3) the revival of a national religious party after years of decline. A broad overview, however, reveals that …
The Importance of National Ethos in Military Victories
When nations are violently threatened, the choices that they make in order to cope with the challenge of war reflect different alternative possible reactions. They may choose to fiercely fight their battles; they may prefer to surrender, and sometimes the options lay in-between. One puzzle is, therefore, what makes nations fight, and more importantly—what causes them eventually to win or to lose the war. In search for an answer, this study inquir…
The mental cleavage of Israeli politics
In societies marked by numerous diversities, like the Jewish-Israeli one, understanding social cleavages might show a larger picture of the group and form a broader comprehension of its characteristics. Most studies concentrate on somewhat conventional cleavages, such as the socioeconomic cleavage, the ethnic cleavage, the religious or the political one; this article, by contrast, suggests a different point of view for the mapping of social cleav…
Comparative Perspectives on Civil Religion, Nationalism, and Political Influence
"This book investigates how belief systems, political behavior, and public action impact the general populace, featuring theoretical concepts and empirical research across pertinent topic areas"...
Kibbutz Under Fire: Back to the Days of Sickle and Bayonet
For two months during the war in Gaza (summer of 2014) Hamas bombarded the kibbutzim in the vicinity using rockets and mortar shells, and exercising tunnel warfare. A century after its establishment dilemmas about kibbutz life similar to those arising during the decades of struggle were raised by members when they had to stand the test of survival under fire: with rockets and mortars landing should they stay or leave? Consequently, should those w…
Post-Holocaust Studies in a Modern Context
"This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area of Post-Holocaust studies. It forms a basic building-brick in the present state of the art, advocating the construction of the newly-born multi-disciplinary discipline of Post-Holocaust studies. It explores this subject from the areas of history, psychology, education, communication, art, theology, and ethics"...
The Polish-Jewish Lethal Polka Dance
Aim. This paper analyses the inherent paradoxes of Jewish-Polish relations. It portrays the main beliefs that construct the contradicting narratives of the Holocaust, trying to weigh which of them is closer to the historic truth. It seeks for an answer to the question whether the Polish people were brothers-in-fate, victimized like the Jews by the Nazis, or if they were rather a hostile ethnic group. Concept. First, the notion of Poland as a have…
Organizational processes and gender integration in operational military units: An Israel Defense Forces case study
This study examines collective action by men and women in operational military units deployed on Israel's borders. Gender integration is generally perceived by soldiers and commanders in these units as a trivial matter rather than an issue for discussion or a disadvantage. The integration results from organizational qualities, which include military leadership with accumulated experience in gender integration; division of labour between men and w…
A Moral Assessment of the Polish Israeli Declaration Following the 2018 Polish Anti-Defamation Law
Aim: This paper focuses on the question to what extent the Netanyahu-Morawiecki joint declaration of June 27, 2018 was indeed a moral one. Ignoring the realpolitik versus ideal politics discourse, our goal is to find out whether solely on an ethical level one can judge the moral qualities of the political concession. Concept: To conduct an ethical judgement process, we took the following steps: (I) A review of the Israeli narrative. (II) A review…
The Social Component of Resilience in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Utilizing Wartime Strategies to Solve Current Problems
This article examines the social components of national resilience as the source of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ability to cope with possibly lethal blows and economic setbacks through four stages: (I) an account of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War and the surprising outcome that left Iran undefeated, (II) a review of several theories that can aid us to analyze Iran’s national resilience ability, (III) an analysis of Iran’s wartime survival using t…
The 1967 war as point of departure for the 1982 war in Lebanon: An uncommon interpretation
Israel’s 1982 war in Lebanon is one of the most controversial events in its history. It is considered the war of Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his defense minister, Ariel Sharon, and hence a war of choice. One of the historical questions concerning that war revolves around its origins. The widespread assumption is that the roots can be found in 1981, the year in which Israel was on the verge of war with both Syria and the PLO. However, this a…
The Use of Internal Governance in the Renewed Kibbutz as a Tool for Social Maintenance and Development
The kibbutzim were established over a century ago, obtaining their power from communist and socialist ideologies. In spite of enormous changes, all over the world as well as in Israel, particularly the collapse of Communism and the rise of a capitalistic liberal Western lifestyle, the kibbutzim have maintained their basic social structure. Consequently, the question this research examines is what exactly are the social mechanisms that have enable…
National ethos and its role in preserving trauma communities: Observations from the Palestinian uprising 2000 to 2005
This paper sticks to the assumption that conflicts become intractable when contradicting sets of national ethos exist. Therefore, it is essential to comprehend the traits of national ethos. We contend that national ethos comprises three basic themes: a sense of collective victimhood, a feeling of victory, and a sense of universal justice. Based on this theoretical foundation, we took the Israeli and Palestinian mutually negating sets of ethos dur…
Revolution in military affairs - The operation mole cricket 19 as a case study for the technological race during the cold war
The article reviews the development of the modern idea of Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) whose buds appeared after the First World War, matured during the Cold War and demonstrated in 1982 in the First Lebanon War by the Israeli Air Force, and in 1991 in the Iraq War by the American Army. After analyzing the essence of RMA, with reference to the concept of both evolution and revolution of military technologies and doctrines, the article sug…
Military Leadership by Intellectual Officers: A Case Study of the IDF
Morris Janowitz believed that for an army to be victorious it needs to be led by as many intellectual forces as possible, just as any organization needs organizational intellectualism to prosper. It is agreed in scholarly literature that the intellectual must author various articles and manifestos to express their viewpoints, mindset, and philosophy in the public sphere. Based on Janowitz’s belief and using the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) as a c…
The 1982 Lebanon War 40 years on
Forty years after its occurrence, the 1982 Lebanon war remains academically understudied with the received wisdom about the conflict largely based on political and journalistic accounts. According to these accounts, the war was a political ploy by Defence Minister Ariel Sharon and Prime Minister Menachem Begin aimed at achieving far-reaching political goals rather than a defensive attempt to remove the terrorist threat to Israel’s northern areas.…
Bridging the gaps between Holocaust accounts: Fieldwork evidence for compromising forms of narrative
This research discusses whether various educational approaches can bridge the wide gaps between national narratives of the Holocaust, augmented by the Act on the IPN: 44, and the reactions that followed it in Israel, Poland, and the West. We start with a brief account of the Polish narrative of the World War II experience, and the Israeli narrative of the Holocaust. We then give an account from the field: during January and February 2020, we visi…
Israeli Students’ Evaluations Regarding Leadership Education in Post-Primary Schools
This article examines the way students attending middle and high schools in Israel evaluate leadership education in their schools and the extent to which it contributes to their leader self-efficacy. Based on 376 questionnaires completed by teenage girls (n = 243) and boys (n = 133) who attend middle and high school in the public education system in Israel, it focuses on their perceptions regarding their school as their main leadership developmen…
Female violence in terror attacks: A phenomenological analysis based on evidence from the “Intifada of the Individuals”
Was the 1982 Lebanon War a Deviation from Israeli Security Doctrine
On June 6, 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon with the aim of destroying the military infrastructure of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which was serving as a launching pad for terrorist infiltrations and Katyusha attacks into northern Israel. From its outset, the Israeli public considered the war an exceptional case and a deviation from the “proper” course of Israeli history. Allegedly, unlike other Israeli wars, the 1982 War did not rela…
The "Iron Swords" war and its effect on the perception of the Nakba among the younger generation in Arab society in Israel
This article examines the effect of the war between Israel and Hamas on the perception of the Nakba among members of the younger generation in the Arab society living in Israel. Although the research began before the outbreak of the war, the flight of more than a million Gazan Palestinians from their homes was a catalyst for the examination of this issue because the discourse of the Nakba against the background of scenes similar to those of the w…
Palestinian society in the West Bank: Trust and self-sacrifice
analysts strive to predict future scenarios of the Palestinian-israeli conflict, concentrating on the question of whether Palestinians will be willing to pay the costs of violent struggle.in contrast with various policy assessments, this paper takes political trust as a factor that enables us to anticipate Palestinian social reactions as a point of departure.We interviewed 90 West Bank inhabitants, focusing on six major issues: the armed struggle…
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