Notes on Contributors
Oren Barak is a Lecturer in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent publications include "Israel's 'Security Network' and its Impact: An Exploration of a New Approach," (co-authored with Gabriel Sheffer) International Journal of Middle East Studies, 38.2, 2006; "The Failure of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, 1993–2000," Journal of Peace Research, 42.6 2005; "Towards a Representative Military? The Transformation of the Lebanese Officer Corps since 1945," Middle East Journal, 60.1 2006.
Uri Ben-Eliezer is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Haifa. His recent publications include In the Name of Security (co-authored with Majid Al-Haj) (Haifa, 2005) [Hebrew]; "Postmodern Armies and the Question of Peace and War: The Israeli Defense Forces in the 'New Times'," International Journal of Middle-East Studies, 36.1, 2004; "From military role-expansion to difficulties in peace-making: the Israel Defense Forces 50 years on," in Daniel Maman, Eyal Ben-Ari, Zeev Rosenhek (eds), Military, State, and Society in Israel (New Brunswick, NJ, 2001).
Stuart A. Cohen is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University. His recent publications include "The Changing Jewish Discourse on Armed Conflict: Themes and Implications," in Jonathan Fox and Shmuel Sandler (eds), Religion in World Conflict (London, 2006); "Between the Scroll and the Sword: The Development of Jewish Religious Law Respecting the Military and War in Modern Israel," Iyunim Bitkumat Yisrael, 15 (2005) [Hebrew]; "'Unlicensed War' in Jewish Tradition," Journal of Military Ethics, 4 (2005).
Yuval Feinstein is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His master's thesis was on "Between the Security Fence and the Apartheid Wall" in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa. [End Page 215]
Noa Harel completed her master's thesis on "Playing the Military: The Culture of preparation for the Army in a Private Course and in the Gadna" at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Yagil Levy is a political sociologist, Open University of Israel. His recent publications include "The Right to Fight: A Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of Recruitment Policy toward Gays and Lesbians," Armed Forces & Society, 33.2, 2006; "The War of the Peripheries: A Social Mapping of IDF Casualties in the Al-Aqsa Intifada," Social Identities, 12.3, 2006; "Social Convertibility and Militarism: Evaluations of the Development of Military-Society Relations in Israel in the Early 2000s," Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 31.1, 2003; Other Army of Israel—Materialist Militarism in Israel (Tel-Aviv, 2003) [Hebrew].
Edna Lomsky-Feder is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her recent publications include "The Bounded Female Voice in Memorial Ceremonies," Qualitative Sociology, 28.3, 2005; "The Memorial Ceremony in Israeli Schools: Between State and Civil Society," British Journal of Sociology of Education, 25.3 2004; "Life Stories, War and Veterans: On the Social Distribution of Memories," Ethos, 32.1, 2004.
Kobi Michael is a researcher at the Jerusalem Institution for Israel Studies and the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent publications include Military Fights Peace—Military and Peacemaking—The Influence of the IDF Over the Transition Process from Peace to War—The Israeli Case (Tel-Aviv, 2007) [Hebrew]; "Civil-Military Relations—The Israeli Case," in Pinchas Yehezkely (ed), ReciprocationBetween The Civil-Political and the Military Echelons (Tel-Aviv, 2005) [Hebrew]; Israeli-Palestinian Joint Patrols in Gaza, 1994–96: A Forgone Failure? (Jerusalem, 2004).
Amiram Oren is a Geographer, University of Haifa. His recent publications include "Competing Land Uses: The Territorial Dimension of Civil-Military Relations in Israel," (with David Newman) Israel Affairs, 12.3, 2006; "A Land in Khaki—Land Uses for Security Needs in Israel," (with Rafi Regev) Karka, 60, 2005 [Hebrew].
Yoram Peri is Director of The Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society, Tel-Aviv University. His recent publications include [End Page 216] Generalsin the Cabinet Room: How the Military Shapes...
