Haredi (ultra-orthodox) political parties in Israel, namely Yahadut HaTora and Shas, have been constantly affecting the domestic agenda state-religion relations general. Despite already flourished literature that covers various roles these play; security dimension is yet to be addressed so far. This paper aims analyse politics Israel identity-security nexus by questioning reflections of parties...

despite some stable factors in iran’s foreign policy , it has changed dramatically toward israel after the islamic revolution in iran. it was the case while these two countries had intensive strategic military and even economic relations before the islamic revolution. the main question this article seeks to answer is that among ir theory which of them can better explain this change in iran’s fo...

The Bene Israel Jewish community from West India is a unique population whose history before the 18th century remains largely unknown. Bene Israel members consider themselves as descendants of Jews, yet the identity of Jewish ancestors and their arrival time to India are unknown, with speculations on arrival time varying between the 8th century BCE and the 6th century CE. Here, we characterize ...

Boaz Tamir Department of Philosophy of Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.‡ Abstract The paper concerns the protection of the secrecy of ballots, so that the identity of the voters cannot be matched with their vote. To achieve this we use an entangled quantum state to represent the ballots. Each ballot includes the identity of the voter, explicitly marked on the ”envelope” containi...

Boaz Tamir Department of Philosophy of Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.‡ Abstract The paper concerns the protection of the secrecy of ballots, so that the identity of the voters cannot be matched with their vote. To achieve this we use an entangled quantum state to represent the ballots. Each ballot includes the identity of the voter, explicitly marked on the ”envelope” containi...

post-zionism is one of the intellectual trends and new discourses which has appeared in israel in recent decades. on the impacts of post-zionism on the future of israel, there are different opinions: some scholars say post-zionism is positive for israel and a resolution for all its problems, while others say it is negative for israel and may create bigger crises in the zionist state. with regar...

Nearly four decades after Iranian-Egyptian diplomatic relations were severed, the two countries are yet to restore them. This is a result of the predominance of certain negative emotional attachments embedded in Iranian and Egyptian identities, which have clouded their respective attitudes toward one another. Mired in resentment against Arabism, the national component of the Iranian state ident...