In response to Ian Lustick’s article on Israel’s migration balance in the previous issue of Israel Studies Review, I question the author’s (lack of) theoretical frame, data handling, and conclusions, all set up against a robust narrative. I show that, until 2010, Israel displayed a positive, if weakened, migration balance and that immigration trends continued to reflect conditions among Diaspor...

Working at the intersection of exchange theory, urban anthropology, and ethnic racial studies, this article offers an original perspective on role local patrons’ networks in constructing place belonging during change. Inspired by a middle-ground approach to reciprocity, embodying both solidarity distrust within same community, manifested interracial context, proposes integrative term strategic ...

This article looks at six months of the author's repeated attempts to obtain approval three Helsinki Committees (HCs, Israeli hospitals’ research ethics committees) conduct ethnographic with Palestinian physicians in hospitals. While was eventually approved and carried out two these institutions, correspondence HC representatives, as well evidence their informal moves institutions’ management, ...