T he fi rst kibbutz, called Degania, was established southwest of the Sea of Galilee in 1910, but the vast majority of kibbutzim were established in the 1930s and 1940s, shortly before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The stereotypical view emphasizes that the founders of kibbutzim were often socialist idealist Jews from Eastern Europe. They migrated to the area of the Middle East t...

This article delves into the transformative decade between 1999 and 2009, exploring intricate web of Jewish-Arab relations in Israel consequential impact tensions on Arab politics voter behavior Israeli elections. During this decade, internal factors, such as generational shift, leadership changes, political pluralism, played a pivotal role reshaping societal landscape sector. On other hand, ex...

The origins of the political thought neo-conservative movement stem from non-American European references, and non-Christian Jewish theological beliefs, especially ideas Leo Strauss, German thinker, Trotsky, Russian thinker who formulated idea ​​the with this conclusion that drew its horizons to world, Middle East In order achieve greatness American Empire, hegemony sovereignty over whole becau...

The colonial visual archive has occupied in recent decades the work of scholars and artists from indigenous racial minority communities, who revealed it as a major apparatus historical meta-narratives. This article aims at pushing forward this preoccupation by revealing an additional scene: art Mizrahi women, descendants Jewish communities Arab Muslim countries. Relying on culture approach focu...

The socialization of the Ethiopian Jewish community, known as Beta Israel in Israeli society, is marked by performing cultural customs and rituals to establish its unique tradition collective ethnic narrative. Sigd a holiday that celebrated on 29th Hebrew month Heshvan, when community marks devotion Zion renewing covenant between people, God, Torah. This narrative return homeland also expressed...

This article examines the rise and fall of the Peace Process and questions the reason for which the United States of America was successful in bringing the two sides to the negotiating table during the 1990s. It investigates the reason for which the process ultimately failed, as well as the reason for which Washingtonwas unsuccessful in restarting the peace process in the past decade. It is arg...

This article discusses the establishment of Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem 1951. My claim is that missionary plan Mission to Jews was mitigated towards a programme biblical studies. Several factors contributed this transformation. The change facilitated relations with Israeli authorities. Another challenge overcome common Christian negative comprehension Zionism as mere materialisti...

Nazi Germany and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, future government of Israel official representative Zionist Organization (ZO), entered a contractual transactional relationship from 1933 to 1939. In 1952 Federal Republic (FRG) State Israel, on behalf all Jews, signed an agreement that paved way Germany’s unconditional support Israel. No suggestion is being made here FRG are same; assumed respo...