Israel After Begin

Contributors

Contributors zyxwvutsrponmlkihgfedcbaZYWVUTSR Myron J. Aronoff is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University. He is the author of Frontiertown: The Politics of Community Building in Israel (Manchester University Press, 1974), Power and Ritual in the Israeli Labor Party (Van Gorcum, 1977), and most recently Israeli Visions and Divisions (Transaction, 1989). He has edited six books and is editor of the Transaction series on Political Anthropology. Robert O. Freedman is Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Graduate School at Baltimore Hebrew University. He is the author of Soviet Policy Toward the Middle East Since 1970 (Praeger, 1982), now in its third edition, and is the editor of Israel in the Begin Era (Praeger, 1982), The Middle East Since the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon (Syracuse University Press, 1986), and The Middle East Since the lran-Contra Affair (Syracuse University Press, 1990). George E. Gruen is director of the Israeli and Middle East Affairs Division of the American Jewish Committee and is also an associate of the Columbia University Seminar on the Middle East. He is the editor and a coauthor of The Palestinians in Perspective: Implications for Mideast Peace and U.S. Policy, as well as a collection of essays on The Resurgence of Islam and the Jewish Communities of the Middle East and North Africa. His major monographs include Water and Politics in the Middle East, Refugees of Arab-Israel Conflict, and Turkey Between East and West. Hanna Herzog is senior lecturer in Sociology at Tel­Aviv University. She is the author of Political Ethnicity: The Image and Reality and Content of Symbols: The Sociology of Election Campaigns Through Israeli Ephemera, as well as other monographs and articles on ethnicity 345 Contributors 346 and gender in Israeli politics. During 1989­1990 she was a visiting associate at the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University. zyxwvutsrp Ann M. Lesch is associate professor of Political Science at Villanova University and has published widely in the field of Middle Eastern politics. Her recent books include Political Perceptions of the Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza Strip (Middle East Institute, 1980), and most recently, Israel, Egypt, and the Palestinians : From Camp David to Intifadah, coauthored with Mark Tessler, (Indiana University Press, 1989). Gregory S. Mahler is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Mississippi. Among his many books and journal articles are several dealing with Israeli politics, including The Knesset: Parliament in the Israeli Political System (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981), Readings on the Israeli Political System (University Press of America, 1982), Bibliography of Israeli Politics (Westview, 1985) and most recently Israel: Government and Politics in a Maturing State (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989). Laurie Mylroie is a Bradley Fellow at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. She received her B.A. from Cornell and her Ph.D. from Harvard. She has a book forthcoming on regional security in the Persian Gulf. Ilan Peleg is head of the Department of Government and Law of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He has published several books and articles on Israeli foreign policy and weapons policies in the Middle East. His most recent books include Begin's Foreign Policy, 1977 - 1983: Israel's Move to the Right (Greenwood Press, 1987), and The Emergence ofBinational New Israel: The Second Republic in the Making, coedited with Ofira Seliktar (Westview Press, 1988). Yakir Plessner is senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and prepared this paper while he was a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College. He has worked as deputy governor of the Bank of Israel, as an economic advisor to the Minister of Finance of Israel, and as a research consultant at the Development Research Center of the World Bank, as well as consulting for numerous government agencies in Israel. His recent publications have dealt with inflation, debt, and economic stabilization in Israel. Contributors Aaron D. Rosenbaum is president of Aaron Rosenbaum and Associates, a Washington, D.C. consulting firm specializing in international politics and defense. Gary S. Schiff is president and professor of Middle East studies at Gratz College in Philadelphia. He is the author of Tradition and Politics: The Religious Parties of Israel (Wayne State University Press, 1977), and numerous articles, monographs, and book chapters on Israeli politics and society. He has previously taught at the City University of New York and Yeshiva University. Michal Shamir is...