Yossi Yonah
Biographic Data
| ID | 791470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yossi Yonah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yossi |
| FAMILY NAME | Yonah |
| SIGNATURE | YONAH Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reclaiming Diaspora: The Israeli State, Migration, and Ethnonationalism in the Global Era
This article offers an analysis of Israel’s migration policies toward Soviet Jews and argues, based on patterns it reveals, that “the compression of relations of time and space” characterizing the global era do not necessarily render the nation-state weaker, let alone idle or irrelevant. It discusses Israel’s attempts to construct these potential Jewish migrants, while they were still in the Soviet Union, as its conationals, and to facilitate the…
Citizenship, Education and Social Conflict
Preface Introduction: Theories of Conflict in Citizenship Education Hanan A. Alexander, Halleli Pinson and Yossi Yonah Part I: Conflict Theories in Citizenship Education 1. The Emergence of Citizenship as a Political Problem in an Era of Globalization Seyla Benhabib 2. Becoming a Critical Citizen: A Marxist-Humanist Critique Juha Suoranta, Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo 3. Education, Power and the State: Dilemmas of Citizenship in Multicult…
Family Structure: Intractable Eurocentric Fantasies in Contemporary Israel
This article offers a critical study of the iteration and reiteration of Israel’s national identity. Thus this study falls within a well charted research terrain. And like many studies falling within its purview, it is also intended to do more than just describe attempts to impose uniform collective identity on obdurate social and cultural diversity. It is intended to examine the national project as ‘a form of cultural elaboration’ entrapped with…
Benhabib on Democratic Iterations in a Global Order
Seyla Benhabib s article, Twilight of Sovereignty or the Emergence of Cosmopolitan Norms offers a penetrating analysis of the contemporary global order and suggests a normative approach by which to mend its structural failures viewed from the democratic ideal of popular sovereignty and guided by what she calls cosmopolitan norms. The authors take issue with Benhabib's position on both the descriptive and the normative grounds, and make three crit…
The Palestinian minority in Israel: When common core curriculum in education meets conflicting national narratives
This paper starts with a brief survey of how the Israeli education system has handled the issue of the existence of an Arab community in Israel’s collective identity, and how this was affected by reforms that were initiated in the education system throughout the years. The second part of the paper examines various possibilities regarding how the inclusion of the Arab collective identity can best be accommodated in the education system and its cur…
Neo‐liberal reforms in Israel's education system: The dialectics of the state
This paper offers a reading of the Dovrat Report with the aim of assessing the convoluted and dialectical manifestations of the state – ‘the weak and the strong state’ – in the era of global neo‐liberalism. The Dovrat Report (Ministry Of Education 2005 Ministry Of Education. 2005. The national task force (‘The Dovrat Committee’) [in Hebrew], Jerusalem: The Ministry Of Education and Culture. [Google Scholar]) includes a set of recommendations aimi…
Reclaiming Diaspora: The Israeli State, Migration, and Ethnonationalism in the Global Era
This article offers an analysis of Israel’s migration policies toward Soviet Jews and argues, based on patterns it reveals, that “the compression of relations of time and space” characterizing the global era do not necessarily render the nation-state weaker, let alone idle or irrelevant. It discusses Israel’s attempts to construct these potential Jewish migrants, while they were still in the Soviet Union, as its conationals, and to facilitate the…
Political Liberalism and Religious Zionism: Tentative alliance
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relevance of political liberalism, as articulated by John Rawls, to Israeli society. Being essentially political—and not philosophical—these principles, according to Rawls, may gain the support of groups who embrace different philosophical doctrines. Can religious groups really embrace political liberalism without forfeiting their religious doctrines? I address this question in relation to the political…
The Wavering Luck of Girls: Gender and Pre-Vocational Education in Israel
This research study is a development of our previous study about the pre-vocational training program introduced to the Israeli education system in the 1950s. However, while in the previous study we examined the role this program played in making Israel’s ethnoworking class, in the present work we examine this program’s gender implications. In addition to the role it played in the emergence of the ethno-working class, the program significantly con…
De-arabization of the bedouin: A study of an inevitable failure
Pre‐vocational education: The making of Israel's ethno‐working class
This article deals with pre‐vocational education that was first implemented in Israel's educational system in 1955 in 7th and 8th grades of elementary school. The purpose of the article is to examine the role that this education played in making Israel's ethno‐working class. This role emerged, we argue, through conflicting dynamics involving two opposite rationales: universalistic and particularistic. On the one hand, pre‐vocational education was…
Israel As a Multicultural Democracy: Challenges and Obstacles
The purpose of this paper is to examine possible implications should Israel incorporate multicultural principles in its ‘basic structure’. The paper divides into two main sections. In the first section I will embark on a short theoretical discussion concerning the relationship between claims of recognition and claims of distribution. In the second section I will assess the implications of this discussion for Israeli society, focusing on the main …
Flexible Control’: Towards a conception of personal autonomy for postmodern education
Israel's immigration policies: The Twofold Face of the 'Demographic Threat
This article deals with the discursive practices employed in various public sites of Israeli society to support and legitimise the immigration policy towards prospective immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) from 1989 to 1990. During those years Israeli society witnessed one of the country's biggest immigration waves. However, like many state policies, Israel's immigration policy towards prospective immigrants from the FSU has not been ca…
The Politics of Lands and Housing in Israel: A Wayward Republican Discourse
Being a settler society — a society dominated by a non-indigenous settler group — Jewish Israel has always been intensely preoccupied with issues of land and housing. These matters have, in consequence, had important rami cations for the very construction of Israel’s national identity and its de nition of citizenship, alongside the practices of national exclusion and ethnic marginalisation they necessarily entail. The Zionist movement had a pench…
Jewish-Arab relations in Israel: Perceptions, emotions, and attitudes of university students of education
This study reports on the perceptions, emotions and attitudes of 172 Jewish and Arab undergraduate and graduate students of education concerning their own national identity, the intergroup relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and the desired political solution for the Arab minority in Israel. Against the background of the continuously changing political situation that involves advances and drawbacks in the peace process between Israel and …
Israel's ‘constitutional revolution’: The liberal–communitarian debate and legitimate stability
In the early 1990s Israel underwent a so-called constitutional revolution. According to the champions of this revolution, Israel has essentially become, as a result of this momentous event, a constitutional democracy, upholding individual freedom and liberties and allowing for judicial review of parliamentary legislation. Despite the congratulatory rhetoric, it is generally agreed upon that the constitution is still in need of some essential supp…
Israel's Political Stability: A Matter of Principle
In 1992, the Israeli parliament enacted two Basic Laws that directly involved basic individual rights: Freedom of Occupation, and Human Dignity and Liberty. The enactment of these laws prompted the head of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, to declare that Israel had undergone a "constitutional revolution" and that it had finally become a fully-fledged "constitutional democracy." 1 Experts and critics of Israel's political system fiercely contest t…
Parental Choice in Israel's Educational System: Theory vs. Praxis
Identity and Political Stability in an Ethnically Diverse State: A Study of Bedouin Arab Youth in Israel
This study deals with the relationship between the state of Israel and its Arab minority, with a particular focus on the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev. This relationship has been problematic from the outset, given the discrepancy between the corporate national identity of Israel as a Jewish state, and the actual composition of its population (a 17 per cent non-Jewish minority). The Bedouin are one of the segments of the Arab population that the gove…
Ubi Patria – Ibi Bene”: The Scope and Limits of Rousseau's Patriotic Education
Fifty Years Later: The Scope and Limits of Liberal Democracy in Israel
Well-being, Categorical Deprivation and the Role of Education
“How should a person lead her life?” The purpose of this paper is to suggest some principles (not a complete list) which will serve us ‘intellectual instruments’ for assessing forms of life. These principles are utilitarian in nature, and, as I will argue, essential to a reasonably rich account of personal well-being. The principles suggested are not instrumental, that is, they determine the worthiness of a form of life led by an agent irrespecti…
Categorical Desires and the Future
One of the most frequently recurring debates about practical reason concerns the roles of reason and the passions in explaining human motivation and behaviour. The debate focusses on two related questions: (1) Are desires necessary in explaining human motivation and behaviour? (2) Can reason suffice to motivate an action
The quest for the good life in Rousseau's Emile: An assessment
Neo‐liberal reforms in Israel's education system: The dialectics of the state
This paper offers a reading of the Dovrat Report with the aim of assessing the convoluted and dialectical manifestations of the state – ‘the weak and the strong state’ – in the era of global neo‐liberalism. The Dovrat Report (Ministry Of Education 2005 Ministry Of Education. 2005. The national task force (‘The Dovrat Committee’) [in Hebrew], Jerusalem: The Ministry Of Education and Culture. [Google Scholar]) includes a set of recommendations aimi…
Pre‐vocational education: The making of Israel's ethno‐working class
This article deals with pre‐vocational education that was first implemented in Israel's educational system in 1955 in 7th and 8th grades of elementary school. The purpose of the article is to examine the role that this education played in making Israel's ethno‐working class. This role emerged, we argue, through conflicting dynamics involving two opposite rationales: universalistic and particularistic. On the one hand, pre‐vocational education was…
Fifty Years Later: The Scope and Limits of Liberal Democracy in Israel
Israel As a Multicultural Democracy: Challenges and Obstacles
The purpose of this paper is to examine possible implications should Israel incorporate multicultural principles in its ‘basic structure’. The paper divides into two main sections. In the first section I will embark on a short theoretical discussion concerning the relationship between claims of recognition and claims of distribution. In the second section I will assess the implications of this discussion for Israeli society, focusing on the main …
The Politics of Lands and Housing in Israel: A Wayward Republican Discourse
Being a settler society — a society dominated by a non-indigenous settler group — Jewish Israel has always been intensely preoccupied with issues of land and housing. These matters have, in consequence, had important rami cations for the very construction of Israel’s national identity and its de nition of citizenship, alongside the practices of national exclusion and ethnic marginalisation they necessarily entail. The Zionist movement had a pench…
Jewish-Arab relations in Israel: Perceptions, emotions, and attitudes of university students of education
This study reports on the perceptions, emotions and attitudes of 172 Jewish and Arab undergraduate and graduate students of education concerning their own national identity, the intergroup relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and the desired political solution for the Arab minority in Israel. Against the background of the continuously changing political situation that involves advances and drawbacks in the peace process between Israel and …
Identity and Political Stability in an Ethnically Diverse State: A Study of Bedouin Arab Youth in Israel
This study deals with the relationship between the state of Israel and its Arab minority, with a particular focus on the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev. This relationship has been problematic from the outset, given the discrepancy between the corporate national identity of Israel as a Jewish state, and the actual composition of its population (a 17 per cent non-Jewish minority). The Bedouin are one of the segments of the Arab population that the gove…
Family Structure: Intractable Eurocentric Fantasies in Contemporary Israel
This article offers a critical study of the iteration and reiteration of Israel’s national identity. Thus this study falls within a well charted research terrain. And like many studies falling within its purview, it is also intended to do more than just describe attempts to impose uniform collective identity on obdurate social and cultural diversity. It is intended to examine the national project as ‘a form of cultural elaboration’ entrapped with…
The Palestinian minority in Israel: When common core curriculum in education meets conflicting national narratives
This paper starts with a brief survey of how the Israeli education system has handled the issue of the existence of an Arab community in Israel’s collective identity, and how this was affected by reforms that were initiated in the education system throughout the years. The second part of the paper examines various possibilities regarding how the inclusion of the Arab collective identity can best be accommodated in the education system and its cur…
Israel's Political Stability: A Matter of Principle
In 1992, the Israeli parliament enacted two Basic Laws that directly involved basic individual rights: Freedom of Occupation, and Human Dignity and Liberty. The enactment of these laws prompted the head of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, to declare that Israel had undergone a "constitutional revolution" and that it had finally become a fully-fledged "constitutional democracy." 1 Experts and critics of Israel's political system fiercely contest t…
Israel's immigration policies: The Twofold Face of the 'Demographic Threat
This article deals with the discursive practices employed in various public sites of Israeli society to support and legitimise the immigration policy towards prospective immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) from 1989 to 1990. During those years Israeli society witnessed one of the country's biggest immigration waves. However, like many state policies, Israel's immigration policy towards prospective immigrants from the FSU has not been ca…
Ubi Patria – Ibi Bene”: The Scope and Limits of Rousseau's Patriotic Education
Parental Choice in Israel's Educational System: Theory vs. Praxis
The quest for the good life in Rousseau's Emile: An assessment
Well-being, Categorical Deprivation and the Role of Education
“How should a person lead her life?” The purpose of this paper is to suggest some principles (not a complete list) which will serve us ‘intellectual instruments’ for assessing forms of life. These principles are utilitarian in nature, and, as I will argue, essential to a reasonably rich account of personal well-being. The principles suggested are not instrumental, that is, they determine the worthiness of a form of life led by an agent irrespecti…
Categorical Desires and the Future
One of the most frequently recurring debates about practical reason concerns the roles of reason and the passions in explaining human motivation and behaviour. The debate focusses on two related questions: (1) Are desires necessary in explaining human motivation and behaviour? (2) Can reason suffice to motivate an action
Ubi Patria – Ibi Bene”: The Scope and Limits of Rousseau's Patriotic Education
Fifty Years Later: The Scope and Limits of Liberal Democracy in Israel
Israel's Political Stability: A Matter of Principle
In 1992, the Israeli parliament enacted two Basic Laws that directly involved basic individual rights: Freedom of Occupation, and Human Dignity and Liberty. The enactment of these laws prompted the head of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, to declare that Israel had undergone a "constitutional revolution" and that it had finally become a fully-fledged "constitutional democracy." 1 Experts and critics of Israel's political system fiercely contest t…
Parental Choice in Israel's Educational System: Theory vs. Praxis
Identity and Political Stability in an Ethnically Diverse State: A Study of Bedouin Arab Youth in Israel
This study deals with the relationship between the state of Israel and its Arab minority, with a particular focus on the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev. This relationship has been problematic from the outset, given the discrepancy between the corporate national identity of Israel as a Jewish state, and the actual composition of its population (a 17 per cent non-Jewish minority). The Bedouin are one of the segments of the Arab population that the gove…
Jewish-Arab relations in Israel: Perceptions, emotions, and attitudes of university students of education
This study reports on the perceptions, emotions and attitudes of 172 Jewish and Arab undergraduate and graduate students of education concerning their own national identity, the intergroup relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and the desired political solution for the Arab minority in Israel. Against the background of the continuously changing political situation that involves advances and drawbacks in the peace process between Israel and …
Israel's ‘constitutional revolution’: The liberal–communitarian debate and legitimate stability
In the early 1990s Israel underwent a so-called constitutional revolution. According to the champions of this revolution, Israel has essentially become, as a result of this momentous event, a constitutional democracy, upholding individual freedom and liberties and allowing for judicial review of parliamentary legislation. Despite the congratulatory rhetoric, it is generally agreed upon that the constitution is still in need of some essential supp…
The Politics of Lands and Housing in Israel: A Wayward Republican Discourse
Being a settler society — a society dominated by a non-indigenous settler group — Jewish Israel has always been intensely preoccupied with issues of land and housing. These matters have, in consequence, had important rami cations for the very construction of Israel’s national identity and its de nition of citizenship, alongside the practices of national exclusion and ethnic marginalisation they necessarily entail. The Zionist movement had a pench…
De-arabization of the bedouin: A study of an inevitable failure
Pre‐vocational education: The making of Israel's ethno‐working class
This article deals with pre‐vocational education that was first implemented in Israel's educational system in 1955 in 7th and 8th grades of elementary school. The purpose of the article is to examine the role that this education played in making Israel's ethno‐working class. This role emerged, we argue, through conflicting dynamics involving two opposite rationales: universalistic and particularistic. On the one hand, pre‐vocational education was…
Israel As a Multicultural Democracy: Challenges and Obstacles
The purpose of this paper is to examine possible implications should Israel incorporate multicultural principles in its ‘basic structure’. The paper divides into two main sections. In the first section I will embark on a short theoretical discussion concerning the relationship between claims of recognition and claims of distribution. In the second section I will assess the implications of this discussion for Israeli society, focusing on the main …
Flexible Control’: Towards a conception of personal autonomy for postmodern education
Israel's immigration policies: The Twofold Face of the 'Demographic Threat
This article deals with the discursive practices employed in various public sites of Israeli society to support and legitimise the immigration policy towards prospective immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) from 1989 to 1990. During those years Israeli society witnessed one of the country's biggest immigration waves. However, like many state policies, Israel's immigration policy towards prospective immigrants from the FSU has not been ca…
The Wavering Luck of Girls: Gender and Pre-Vocational Education in Israel
This research study is a development of our previous study about the pre-vocational training program introduced to the Israeli education system in the 1950s. However, while in the previous study we examined the role this program played in making Israel’s ethnoworking class, in the present work we examine this program’s gender implications. In addition to the role it played in the emergence of the ethno-working class, the program significantly con…
Reclaiming Diaspora: The Israeli State, Migration, and Ethnonationalism in the Global Era
This article offers an analysis of Israel’s migration policies toward Soviet Jews and argues, based on patterns it reveals, that “the compression of relations of time and space” characterizing the global era do not necessarily render the nation-state weaker, let alone idle or irrelevant. It discusses Israel’s attempts to construct these potential Jewish migrants, while they were still in the Soviet Union, as its conationals, and to facilitate the…
Political Liberalism and Religious Zionism: Tentative alliance
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relevance of political liberalism, as articulated by John Rawls, to Israeli society. Being essentially political—and not philosophical—these principles, according to Rawls, may gain the support of groups who embrace different philosophical doctrines. Can religious groups really embrace political liberalism without forfeiting their religious doctrines? I address this question in relation to the political…
Benhabib on Democratic Iterations in a Global Order
Seyla Benhabib s article, Twilight of Sovereignty or the Emergence of Cosmopolitan Norms offers a penetrating analysis of the contemporary global order and suggests a normative approach by which to mend its structural failures viewed from the democratic ideal of popular sovereignty and guided by what she calls cosmopolitan norms. The authors take issue with Benhabib's position on both the descriptive and the normative grounds, and make three crit…
The Palestinian minority in Israel: When common core curriculum in education meets conflicting national narratives
This paper starts with a brief survey of how the Israeli education system has handled the issue of the existence of an Arab community in Israel’s collective identity, and how this was affected by reforms that were initiated in the education system throughout the years. The second part of the paper examines various possibilities regarding how the inclusion of the Arab collective identity can best be accommodated in the education system and its cur…
Neo‐liberal reforms in Israel's education system: The dialectics of the state
This paper offers a reading of the Dovrat Report with the aim of assessing the convoluted and dialectical manifestations of the state – ‘the weak and the strong state’ – in the era of global neo‐liberalism. The Dovrat Report (Ministry Of Education 2005 Ministry Of Education. 2005. The national task force (‘The Dovrat Committee’) [in Hebrew], Jerusalem: The Ministry Of Education and Culture. [Google Scholar]) includes a set of recommendations aimi…
Family Structure: Intractable Eurocentric Fantasies in Contemporary Israel
This article offers a critical study of the iteration and reiteration of Israel’s national identity. Thus this study falls within a well charted research terrain. And like many studies falling within its purview, it is also intended to do more than just describe attempts to impose uniform collective identity on obdurate social and cultural diversity. It is intended to examine the national project as ‘a form of cultural elaboration’ entrapped with…
Reclaiming Diaspora: The Israeli State, Migration, and Ethnonationalism in the Global Era
This article offers an analysis of Israel’s migration policies toward Soviet Jews and argues, based on patterns it reveals, that “the compression of relations of time and space” characterizing the global era do not necessarily render the nation-state weaker, let alone idle or irrelevant. It discusses Israel’s attempts to construct these potential Jewish migrants, while they were still in the Soviet Union, as its conationals, and to facilitate the…
Citizenship, Education and Social Conflict
Preface Introduction: Theories of Conflict in Citizenship Education Hanan A. Alexander, Halleli Pinson and Yossi Yonah Part I: Conflict Theories in Citizenship Education 1. The Emergence of Citizenship as a Political Problem in an Era of Globalization Seyla Benhabib 2. Becoming a Critical Citizen: A Marxist-Humanist Critique Juha Suoranta, Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo 3. Education, Power and the State: Dilemmas of Citizenship in Multicult…
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (23 works) · Law (22 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (11 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)