Conflict tends to harm the economy, but voters may not fully internalize these risks. Can exposure to broader financial markets change attitudes towards conflict, and even voting decisions? Can this happen even in the context of persistent ethnic conflict? Prior to the 2015 Israeli elections, we randomly assigned financial assets to likely voters and gave them incentives to actively trade for u...

Building upon psychological conflict theory, on the one hand, and item-response models, on the other, the present paper develops an integrated methodology that aims at differentiating the various ways of criticizing Israel. An application of this methodology to the Anti-Semitism and Criticism of Israel (ASCI) survey found two ways of criticizing Israel resulting from two different and antipodal...

Abstract The Palestinian refugee problem is considered one of the most intractable and complex issues surrounding Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This article examines gaps between Israel Palestinians concerning considers whether back-channel diplomacy can help promote possible lasting solutions. To answer this question, several sets peace negotiations are presented that involved communications o...

OBJECTIVE Since September 2000 Israeli society has been subjected to numerous deadly terror attacks. Few studies have studied the comparative mental health vulnerability of minorities and majorities to continuous terror attacks. METHOD Two telephone surveys (N = 512 and 501) on two distinct representative samples of the Israeli population after 19 months and after 44 months of terror. The Ara...

This paper explores classical and war-related factors associated with human insecurity reports in the Gaza Strip following the winter 2008-09 Israeli attack. A cross-sectional survey was conducted six months after the Israeli attack with adults from 3017 households. Results demonstrate that persons with greater human capital and socioeconomic resources were somewhat protected from human insecur...