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CONTENTS Introduction Walter P. Zenner and Kevin Avruch 1 PART I: THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT 1. Water in the Arab-Israeli Struggle: Conflict or Cooperation? Ofira Seliktar 9 2. Dialogue and National Consensus in the Pre-Madrid Period: Dilemmas of Israeli and Palestinian Peace Activists Mohammed Abu-Nimer 30 PART II: SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT 3. Neighborhood Renewal through the Establishment and through Protest Efraim Ben-Zadok 53 4. Israeli Courts and Cultural Adaptation Samuel Krislov 74 5. Modern Jerusalem: Politics. Planning. People Jeff Halper 93 PART III: RELIGION 6. Sephardic Religious Thought in Israel: Aspects of the Theology of Rabbi Haim David HaLevi Zvi M. Zohar 115 v vi Contents 7. Remembering the Sages of Aram Soba (Aleppo) Walter P. Zenner 137 8. Localizing Israeli Judaism Kevin Avruch 152 PART IV: LITERATURE AND CULTURE 9. Israeli Military Leadership During the Yom Kippur War: Reflections on the Art of Reflection Pnina Lahav 171 10. Sifrut HaMa'abarah rrransit Camp Literature): Literature of Transition Nancy E. Berg 187 11. Historical Memory: Israeli Cinema and Literature in the 1980s and 1990s Nurith Gertz 208 Notes on Contributors 227 ...

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