The Tal Law
A Missed Opportunity for "Bridging Social Capital" in Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5707330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Etta Bick (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 298-322 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Church and State (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-969X • E-ISSN: 2040-4867 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jcs/csq051 |
| OpenAlex | W2046765011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Israel, a state that faces security challenges from determined enemies on its northern, eastern, and western borders, requires of its citizens extended military service as well as long-term service in the reserves. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) has characteristics of a “people's army,” with conscripts and reservists strongly outnumbering long-time service professionals.1 Able bodied men serve three years of compulsory service and then decades of service in the reserves (according to law until age fifty-four; in practice until age forty-five). Women serve a mandatory two years. The “citizen-soldier”2 has characterized Israel's adult male population and is a significant component of its national culture. In addition to its defense function, army service fills an integrative role as well. Army service engenders bonding social capital3 among those who serve, creating comradely networks between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, new immigrants and veteran Israelis, national-religious Jews and secular Jews, and bridging social capital between the dominant Jewish population and the minority Druze community. Shared army service creates bridges of friendship, social trust, and reliance in a diversified society of native born, veteran, and new immigrants, coming from the FSU, the United States, Latin America, North Africa, and Ethiopia.4
Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Friendship · Immigration · Judaism · Military service · Political science · Population · Service (business) · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2020 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |