2 The Yishuv's Early Capabilities: Organization, Leadership, and Policies

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Ivory Tower and Embassy: Interview with Itamar Rabinovich 7
5. History, Economics, and Politics
6. The Yishuv's Early Capabilities: Organization, Leadership, and Policies 29
7. The Transition to a Market Economy: The Road Half Taken 47
8. Israel as a Liberal Democracy: Civil Rights in the Jewish State 63
9. "Normal" or "Special"? Israel's Relationships with America and Germany in Historical Perspective 81
10. Society and Culture
11. Mythmaking and Commemoration in Israeli Culture 99
12. Prophecy of Wrath: Israeli Society as Reflected in Satires for Children 119
13. Women's Issues in the Literary Marketplace: Anthologies of Israeli Women Writers 137
14. Yemenite Jews on the Zionist Altar 153
15. Israel in the Region
16. Policy Transformation in the Middle East: Arms Control Regimes and National Security Reconciled 173
17. Palestinian Sovereignty and Israeli Security: Dilemmas of the Permanent-Status Negotiations 193
18. The Domestic-International Confluence: The Challenge of Israel's Water Problems 221
19. Views of Israel from the Arab World
20. On Opposite Sides of the Hill: Syrian and Israeli Perspectives 241
21. Egyptian Representation of Israeli Culture: Normalizing Propaganda or Propagandizing Normalization? 263
22. Arab-Israeli Economic Relations and Relative Gains Concerns 283
23. The Debate over Normalization: Adonis and His Arab Critics 309
24. Contributors 317
25. The Editors 321