Contributors
- Contributors
Allan Arkush is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Binghamton University. Recent publications include ‘Rethinking Zion and Modernity, Jewish Social Studies, 9.1 (2002); “The Jewish State and its Internal Enemies; Yoram Hazony versus Martin Buber and his “Ideological Children,”’ Jewish Social Studies, 7.2 (2001) and Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment (New York, 1994).
Dan Bar-On is Professor of Psychology at the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Recent publications include Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich (Harvard, Mass., 1989); Fear and Hope: Three Generations of Holocaust Survivors’ Families (Harvard, Mass., 1998) and The Indescribable and the Undiscussable (New York, 1999).
Gal Dor practices civil litigation with the national law in California. She is author of ‘Constitutional Dialogues in Action: Canadian and Israeli Experiences in Comparative Perspective’, Indiana International and Comparative Law Review, 11.1, 2000.
Alan Flashman M.D. teaches pediatrics, child psychiatry and emotional responses to the Gaza Disengagement in Beer Sheva. He is co-editor with Hannah Avnet of Therapeutic Communication with Adolescents (Jerusalem, 2005) [Hebrew].
Isabella Ginor is a research fellow of the Truman Institute, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her publications include “’Under the Yellow Arab Hemet Gleaned Blue Russian Eyes’: Operation Kavkaz and the War of Attrition, 1969–70,” Cold War History, 3.1, 2002 and ‘The Russians Were Coming: The Soviet Military Threat in the 1967 Six-Day War,’ Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) 4.4, 2000.
Menachem Hofnung is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent publications include: co-authored with Yoav Dotan, “Legal Defeats—Political Wins: Why Do Elected Representatives Go to Court?”, Comparative Political Studies, 38.1, 2005; “Fat Parties—Lean Candidates: Funding Israeli Internal Party Contests” in Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Elections in Israel 2003 (Somerset, NJ 2004). Forthcoming, “Campaign Finance Law in Israel”, in Tom Grant, Foreign Corrupt Practices Worldwide: Navigating the Laws, Regulations and Practices of National Regimes.
Mahmoud Kayyal is a Lecturer in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel-Aviv University, and in the Faculty of Education in Haifa University. He is author of Translation in the Shade of Confrontation: Translational Norms in the Translations of Modern Hebrew Literature into Arabic between 1948–1990 (Jerusalem, 2006) and ‘Intercultural Relations between Arabs and Israeli Jews as Reflected in Arabic Translations of Modern Hebrew Literature’, Target, 16:1 (2004).
Theodor Or, served as Judge on Israel’s Supreme Court from 1989 to 2004. He headed the State Commission of Inquiry into the Events of October 2000.
Elie Rekhess is a senior Research Fellow in the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel-Aviv University where he also heads the Konrad Adenauer Program on Jewish-Arab Cooperation in Israel. His recent publications include Clans, Sectarianism and Political Parties (Tel-Aviv, 2005) [Hebrew]; The Arabs in Israel: A National Minority in a Jewish Nation State The Municipal Elections in the Arab and Druze Sector (Tel-Aviv, 2003) [Hebrew] and “The Arabs in Israel after Oslo: Localization of the National Struggle,” Israel Studies 7.3 (2002).
Gideon Remez is a specialist on United States history and foreign policy. He recently retired as Head of the Foreign News Desk at Israel Radio, where he edited and presented an award-winning daily program on world affairs.
Theodore Sasson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College and Senior Scholar at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University. He is co-author with Katherine Beckett of The Politics of Injustice: Crime & Punishment in America (Second Edition, London, 2004) and Crime Talk: How Citizens Construct a Social Problem (London, 1995).
Kenneth Waltzer is Professor of History in James Madison College at Michigan State University and is Director of Jewish Studies at Michigan State University. His is currently writing a book on The Rescue of Children at Buchenwald.
Havatzelet Yahel is a lawyer and Department Director of the Land Title Settlement Unit, in the Southern District Attorney (civil matters) at the Ministry of Justice. She is a Lecturer on land law at the Institute for Legal Training of Attorneys and Legal Advisors.
