The Israeli State and Society: Boundaries and Frontiers

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS • NACHMAN BEN-YEHUDA is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Hebrew University ofJerusalem. He is the author of Deviance and Moral Boundaries: Witchcraft, the Occult, Science-Fiction, Deviant Sciences and Scientists (Chicago, 1985). He is currently working on a manuscript on politics and deviance, and is conducting a research project on political assassinations by Jews in Israel. ERIK COHEN is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Facuity of Social Sciences of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His major academic interests : the relation between sociology and philosophy, sociology of tourism, social structure of Thailand as well as Israel, and anthropology of ethnic arts. He has published numerous articles in these fields, and is the editor (with M. Lissak and U. Almagor) of Comparative Social Dynamics: Essays in Honour of Shmuel N. Eisenstadt (Boulder, Colo., 1985), and of a special issue of The Journal ofApplied Behavioral Science (1987) dedicated to the Removal of Israeli settlements from Sanai, and the author of "Expatriate Communities" in Current Sociology (1977). He is currently engaged in a study of social change in Thailand. MENACHEM FRIEDMAN is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Bar Ilan University of Ramat Gan. His work on the sociology of religion and social history has focused on the reaction of traditional Jewry to the processes of secularization and modernization . His publications include the Hebrew books Society and Religion: NonZionist Orthodoxy in Eretz-Israel (jerusalem, 1968) and The Poster People: Growth and Segregation of the Ultra-Orthodox Community ofJerusalem (Tel-Aviv, forthcoming ). CHARLES W. GREENBAUM is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University ofJerusalem. He has performed research in social, organizational , and cross-cultural developmental psychology, and is currently interested in the development of political concepts in children, and in parentchild relations. 285 CONTRIBUTORS SHOSHANA HARPAZ holds the M.A. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is currently a clinical psychologist at the Ilan Child Guidance clinic, Jerusalem. DAN HOROWITZ is Professor of Sociology and Political Science of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has written numerous articles on national security, political theory, military sociology, and sociology of Israel, and is co-author of three books (with E. Luttwak) The Israeli Army (London, 1975), (with M. Lissak) Origins of Israeli Polity (Chicago, 1978) and (with the same co-author) Overburdened Politics (Albany, forthcoming). BARUCH KIMMERLING is a senior faculty member of the Department of Sociology and Director of the Center for Study and Documentation of Israeli Society at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publication and research interests include sociology of military and war, the Arab-Jewish conflict as well as the Zionist movement. Among other works, he is the author of Zionism and Territory (Berkeley, CA, 1983), Zionism and Economy (Cambridge , Mass., 1983) and The Interrupted System: Israeli Civilians in War and Routine Times (New-Brunswick, N.J., 1985), and numerous articles in his fields. LEON MANN is Professor of Psychology at Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide. He is the author of Social Psychology and a co-author of Decision Making. He has performed research in decision-making, the behavior of crowds, cross-cultural studies of groups, and the development of decision rules in children. JOEL S. MIGDAL is Professor and Chair of International Studies at the University of Washington's Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies . His publications include Peasants, Politics and Revolution (Princeton, 1974), Palestinian Society and Politics (Princeton, 1980), and Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and States' Capabilities in the Third World (Princeton, 1988). He lives in Seattle with his wife Marcia and their three children. MICHAEL SHALEV holds a joint appointment as Senior Lecturer in sociology and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was educated in New Zealand, Britain and the United States, and specializes in the political economy of labor markets and labor movements. He is the author of Labor and Political Economy of Israel. (Oxford, forthcoming) as well as other works, and has written a number of articles on comparative labor movements and public policy in the western nations. 286 CONTRIBUTORS JUDITH T. SHUVAL is Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University ofJerusalem and Director of the Program in Medical Sociology. Her publications include the following books: Immigrants on the Threshold (New York, 1963), Social Functions ofMedical Practice (San-Francisco, 1970), f<-fuering Medicine : A Seven Year Study ofMedical Education in Israel (Oxford, 1980), and Newcomers and Colleagues: Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel (Huston, 1983). Shuval's research has focused on immigration, ethnic relations, professionals and professional socialization as well as the sociology of health. She is the recipient of the Israel Prize in Social Sciences (1965), and has served as Chair of the Israeli Sociological Association. 287 ...