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This article seeks to measure the potential risk tolerance in tourism and to determine whether individuals’ rationality in daily life is consistent with their choice of destination for foreign travel. Findings of the research, carried out among Israeli students, indicate such a consistency: individuals with higher general risk aversion also have higher risk aversion in tourism. These results can give tourism service providers greater insight into how tourists make decisions, thus enabling them to offer destinations that are personally adapted to the travel experience and general risk tolerance of tourists.
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Violent political conflict results in socioeconomic fragmentation and hampers economic development. In contrast, trade crucially depends on cooperation. The article empirically analyses at the micro-level whether economic interactions affect political attitudes. Trading relations between Israelis and Palestinians are found to be extensive despite the conflict. Education and personal social networks facilitate contacts. Israeli traders do not see themselves as affected by the conflict, but wish for its quick settlement. This lends support to the Rational Group Conflict Theory and the Theory of Liberal Peace. Daily contacts are found to create positive functional interdependence which may be effective in fostering reconciliation in the Middle East.
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160292
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For the first 28 years of Israel’s existence, the Arab minority was represented in the Knesset by a series of ‘satellite lists’ affiliated mainly with the Mapai party and, later, with the Alignment (Labour). This article explores the role of the satellite lists in the early years of the state, and the reasons for their ultimate demise. The fate of these lists would be inextricably tied to the overall political development and political liberation of their constituencies. Their relative success was intimately connected to the disarray of Palestinian Arab society after the 1948 war, the political isolation of the Arab minority and a belief held by the Jewish leadership that the traditional Arab notability could be co-opted. The satellite lists could not survive for long once these factors were mitigated and a more authentic alternative leadership had evolved.
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160298
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A coalition of women from all walks of life was common in women’s activism at the beginning of the twentieth century. The recognition of the importance of the empowerment of women through autonomous, public activity was also shared among the women’s organisations that decided to cooperate in the political arena in Eretz Israel. Their collaboration indicates the importance they attached to the commitment to united action that was based on the acceptance of Zionist principles, on the one hand, and their aspiration to overcome what separated them, on the other. The women’s coalition overcame geographical distance and differences in class or political and social orientation, while challenging the old consensus and the boundaries of exclusion and inclusion prevailing in Zionist society. This article focuses on the collaboration between women’s organisations of labour Zionism and middle-class Zionism of various national affiliations, thus forming a transnational coalition in the build-up to statehood. Their claims, activities and modes of operation in the fields of politics and economics are analysed alongside the results and the effect of their efforts.
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160297
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The detailed analysis of articles on Israeli literature that appeared in a wide range of French publications between 2000 and 2012 allows for exploration of the degree of politicisation in the critical reception in France of contemporary Israeli literature. The diversity of approaches to Israeli literature, and its evolution into a more intimate art form, shows a less politicised critical reception of Israeli literature than is commonly believed.
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160293
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Israeli academic literature on Taiwan depicts the relations between the two states in the most favourable terms, assuming a mutually beneficial partnership between the Jewish state and the East Asian country, seen as free of any anti-Semitism. The Israeli literature understands Taiwan solely as a small democratic, modern high-tech country surrounded by enemies. This projection of the own country image onto Taiwan leads to a romanticised and false idea of it. In fact, Taiwan is a highly anti-Semitic country with a poor human rights record and fascist tendencies. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is right to say that ‘it is obvious that Taiwan has a problem’. So, too, have many Israeli writings on the country which ignore the rather unsettling reality.
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160295
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Israel’s image in the world and its attempts at public diplomacy have always provoked intense discussion and criticism at home and abroad. Through analysis of reports, official documents, and protocols, this article shows how weaknesses in public policymaking undermine the establishment of Israel’s public diplomacy. Israel’s weakness in public policymaking and crisis of governance preclude the possibility of encompassing official measures for an efficient decision-making process, or for long-term strategic planning. This ‘institutional void’ is filled by the IDF, creating a process that causes the ‘security mindset’ to triumph over all other foreign policy factors. The outcome is a less effective Hasbara, which also affects broader diplomatic considerations.
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160290
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Suicide is the ultimate outcome of a tragic and pessimistic view of life, so prevalent in ancient Greek writings. Indeed, over 16 suicides and self-mutilations can be found in the 26 surviving tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides. In contrast, only six suicides can be found in the Hebrew Scriptures. This article examines evidence regarding seven risk factors for suicide. It contrasts biblical and Greek narratives regarding each of these factors respectively: (1) Elijah against Ajax; (2) Job against Zeno; (3) David against Coriolanus; (4) Jonah against Narcissus; (5) Moses against Oedipus; (6) Rebecca against Phaedra; and finally (7) Ruth against Antigone. All these Greek narratives lead to self-destructive behaviours while biblical narratives provide a hopeful positive psychology, and a safe way out these dilemmas. It is high time to develop a biblical psychology and psychotherapy commensurate with the restored land of Israel and a Hebrew civilisation.
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160289
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Israel was established as a welfare state that sought to provide social justice to its citizens. From 1948 to the late 1970s the political system was run by a social-democratic party that envisioned the creation of a ‘just’, ‘egalitarian’ and ‘inclusive’ society. In 1977, the Likud party gained power and Israelis expected the new government to change the rules of the game, removing existing welfare systems and drastically reducing government control of the economy. Though very few, if any, of the anticipated changes were carried out, broad sectors of the Israeli public believed that the Likud government had changed the face of the Israeli economy and society. This article examines the characteristics of the Israeli welfare system and suggests an explanation for the gap between the way it is viewed and what exists on the ground
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This article presents findings from investigations of acclaimed gender employment changes in Israeli journalism, focusing on two main questions: Is the feminisation process of Israeli journalism continuing? Is it improving women’s employment and occupational status? Data were gathered from two international surveys that included Israel. The study found that while women are integrated in a variety of news areas, such as news presentation, and play a significant role in management, their roles and salaries are unequal to men. These findings shed light on gender (in)equality and identify some of the mechanisms that exclude Israeli women from the labour market.
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