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This book illustrates the dynamic nature of Israel's security concerns, and the ways in which they have evolved in response to changes in the country's diplomatic and geo-strategic environment, changes that have been further fueled by technological, economic and demographic transformations.

These papers are an edited selection from the BESA conference of 1998. They present an overview of transformations in societal-military relations in the western world, and the specific manifestations in Israel.

Soldiering, which for almost two millennia was almost entirely foreign to Jewish thought and practice, has by virtue of universal conscription become a rite of passage to citizenship in the Jewish state. For practicing orthodox Jews in Israel this change generates dilemmas that are intellectual as well as behavioural, and has necessitated both doctrinal and institutional adaptations. At the same time, the responses thus evoked are forcing Isra...

Nicht mich will ich retten, sondern meine Idee' Irène Cohen-Janca hat die Geschichte vom polnischen Arzt Janusz Korczak und seinen fast 200 Waisenkindern sehr kindgerecht und gleichzeitig poetisch für unsere Zeit aufgeschrieben, und Maurizio A. C. Quarello hat sie mit außergewöhnlich anrührenden Bildern illustriert. Auf einer großen Ausklappseite hat der Künstler den Auszug der Kinder gezeichnet - ein unvergessliches Bild. Im August 1942 wurd...

Constitutes the first attempt at a comparative international analysis of the transformations that are affecting the composition of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and their place in Israeli society.

Soldiering, which for almost two millennia was almost entirely foreign to Jewish thought and practice, has by virtue of universal conscription become a rite of passage to citizenship in the Jewish state. For practicing orthodox Jews in Israel this change generates dilemmas that are intellectual as well as behavioural, and has necessitated both doctrinal and institutional adaptations. At the same time, the responses thus evoked are forcing Isra...

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These papers are an edited selection from the BESA conference of 1998. They present an overview of transformations in societal-military relations in the western world, and the specific manifestations in Israel.

This edited book constitutes the first detailed attempt at a comparative international analysis of the transformations that are currently affecting the composition of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and their place in Israeli society.

Analyzes the strategic, societal and organizational aspects of the (Israeli Defence Force) IDF, identifying the key changes occurring in Israel's military framework, and exploring their potential implications.

Examines scholarly interest in the historical origins and manifestations of Jewry's distinctive traditions of constitutional thought and political action.

The Jewish national revival of our times has stimulated scholarly interest in the historical origins and manifestations of Jewry's distinctive traditions of constitutional thought and political action. This study is a contribution to that inquiry. Focusing on the structures of communal rule forged during the first five centuries of the common era, the book presents a novel analysis of the processes whereby the rabbis and their disciples replac...