Ofra Bloch
Biographic Data
| ID | 6504717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ofra Bloch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ofra |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloch |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCH O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pass Over
I hate Passover. But, given that Passover commemorates liberation, a core value that I wanted to introduce to my son when he turned five, I decided to read the Passover Haggadah to him. We sat at o
Countering authoritarian populists’ legal theory
How should legal academics respond to authoritarian populists? What shape should their public interventions take? To address these questions, this article reframes the activism of legal scholars against populism as a struggle over competing legal theories. It is well documented that authoritarian populists make opportunistic use of democratic institutions, in particular constitutional reform and lawmaking by an elected legislature. This article d…
The Two Revolutions of Israel's National Identity
The judicial overhaul, designed to weaken the judiciary and unleash governmental power from its structural checks, should be understood, we argue, as part of a deeper transformation of Israel's constitutional identity. At its core, this transformation is not about ‘empowering the people’ but rather about questioning Israel's commitment to the fundamental principle of equal citizenship, mainly regarding the permissibility of preferring the interes…
National priority regions (1971–2022)
National Priority Regions (NPRs) are one of Israel’s most robust tools for redistribution: a resource allocation governmental plan that favors some regions over others, mostly according to their socioeconomic status and peripherality. Drawing on archival research, this article is the first to focus on this topic and provide a detailed description and analysis of this measure. It provides historical and theoretical accounts of NPRs, tracing their …
Hierarchical Inclusion
The history of Israel's relationship with its Palestinian-Arab minority during the founding decades, from 1948 to 1968, is often portrayed as a story of formal citizenship that concealed large-scale, state-sanctioned oppression under military rule. This article excavates an untold history of employment affirmative action for Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel during these two decades which does not fit neatly into this story. Drawing on original…
Hierarchical Inclusion
The history of Israel's relationship with its Palestinian-Arab minority during the founding decades, from 1948 to 1968, is often portrayed as a story of formal citizenship that concealed large-scale, state-sanctioned oppression under military rule. This article excavates an untold history of employment affirmative action for Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel during these two decades which does not fit neatly into this story. Drawing on original…
Hierarchical Inclusion
The history of Israel's relationship with its Palestinian-Arab minority during the founding decades, from 1948 to 1968, is often portrayed as a story of formal citizenship that concealed large-scale, state-sanctioned oppression under military rule. This article excavates an untold history of employment affirmative action for Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel during these two decades which does not fit neatly into this story. Drawing on original…
The Two Revolutions of Israel's National Identity
The judicial overhaul, designed to weaken the judiciary and unleash governmental power from its structural checks, should be understood, we argue, as part of a deeper transformation of Israel's constitutional identity. At its core, this transformation is not about ‘empowering the people’ but rather about questioning Israel's commitment to the fundamental principle of equal citizenship, mainly regarding the permissibility of preferring the interes…
National priority regions (1971–2022)
National Priority Regions (NPRs) are one of Israel’s most robust tools for redistribution: a resource allocation governmental plan that favors some regions over others, mostly according to their socioeconomic status and peripherality. Drawing on archival research, this article is the first to focus on this topic and provide a detailed description and analysis of this measure. It provides historical and theoretical accounts of NPRs, tracing their …
Countering authoritarian populists’ legal theory
How should legal academics respond to authoritarian populists? What shape should their public interventions take? To address these questions, this article reframes the activism of legal scholars against populism as a struggle over competing legal theories. It is well documented that authoritarian populists make opportunistic use of democratic institutions, in particular constitutional reform and lawmaking by an elected legislature. This article d…
Pass Over
I hate Passover. But, given that Passover commemorates liberation, a core value that I wanted to introduce to my son when he turned five, I decided to read the Passover Haggadah to him. We sat at o
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Affirmative action (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work)