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Aplicando estadísticas demográficas y datos de encuestas, el profesor Jonathan Rynhold examina lúcidamente la política de Israel a través de los lentes de la diversidad étnica, religiosa y cultural. El concluye que la sociedad israelí y sus prioridades políticas están en cambio constante, como lo demuestra la formación en junio de 2021 de la coalición gubernamental más étnicamente y políticamente diversa de Israel que jamás se haya formado.

Assembled by Ken Stein and Michele Freesman Emory University, Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and Center for Israel Education kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu Sultan Althari, “It’s time to bring a realist perspective to Middle Eastern foreign affairs,” Al-Arabiya, July 13, 2021, https://english.alarabiya.net/views/news/middle-east/2021/07/13/It-s-time-to-bring-a-realist-perspective-to-Middle-Eastern-foreign-affairs  Oula A. Alrifai and Ali Alleile, “Iran and Russia Are Exploiting America’s […]

An invaluable glimpse at Palestine’s population: gaping socio-economic distances and vast communal differences between Muslims, Christians and Jews that set the strong preferences for separation of the populations.

Since the 1920s the Sacred Esplanade of Jerusalem came to symbolise the bone of contention in the conflict over Palestine. The maintenance and even definition of the lines of division between the communities was a clear aim of the British authorities from 1920-1948. The communal/religious conflicts intensified after 1967 with the Israeli capture of East Jerusalem and other Arab-populated territory, which left neither side fully content.

In “The Arabs and the Approaching War with Israel, 1945-1948,” Yaacov Shimoni reviews in detail the period from the early 1940s to May 1948, examining decisions made by Arab leaders toward Palestine and Zionism. He concludes that disunity among Arab states, jealousies, and disorganization plagued Arab preparations for the expected coming war with the Zionists.

Assembled by Ken Stein and Michele Freesman Emory University, Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and Center for Israel Education  kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu Elliot Abrams, “Can Democracy Help Solve the Problem of Gaza?” Council on Foreign Relations, June 15, 2021, https://www.cfr.org/blog/can-democracy-help-solve-problem-gaza  AJC Staff, “AJC 2021 Survey of American Jewish Opinion,” AJC, June 14, 2021, https://www.ajc.org/news/survey2021  Dr. […]

¿Que es la cultura?Un sistema de creencias, valores, costumbres, ideas, comportamientos, símbolos, rasgos, mitos y tradiciones compartidos que los miembros de un grupo definen como propios y utilizan para enfrentarse a su mundo, a los demás, a los extranjeros y extraños, y de alguna manera transmitirlo de generación en generación. Ver PowerPoint

On September 9, 1993, four days before Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Accords on the White House Lawn, Israel and the PLO signed mutual recognition Letters. Joel Singer, who significantly assisted the negotiation of both the MRA and the Oslo Accords, as well as earlier agreements with Egypt, recalled that the MRA was “a massive leap forward in Israeli-Palestinian relations.”

Herzog recognizes the gap between Israel and American Jews, proclaiming the critical and immediate need for education of each community of the other.

Support for Israel is important to most members of the U.S. Jewish community, but advocacy is effective only when it begins with a foundation of deep, nuanced Israel education.

In the second half of a conversation recorded June 16, 2021, during the 20th annual Enrichment Workshop on Modern Israel held by CIE and the Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, people involved in education at various levels respond to former American Jewish Committee official Steven Bayme’s thoughts about the differences between the world’s two largest Jewish populations.

Former longtime American Jewish Committee official Dr. Steven Bayme combines the framework of books by Peter Beinart and Daniel Gordis with recent survey data to gain insights into the differences between the world’s two largest Jewish communities.

How can adults and students alike know what information to trust about Israel and the Middle East, especially when it comes to social media? How can any of us learn to be critical consumers of the flood of information available in the world? In this June 16, 2021, session from the 20th annual Enrichment Workshop on […]

Prime Minister Bennett outlines and offers details for meeting domestic and foreign policy challenges facing Israel. He asks all the citizens of Israel to forge together under the banners of realism and practical solutions.

In a 40-minute video recorded June 14, 2021, Dr. Yaron Ayalon of the College of Charleston and Rich Walter of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta delve into the history and the political and cultural influence of the diverse group of Israeli Jews collectively known as the Sephardim or the Mizrahim. Representing a majority of […]

Published by the British Administration of Palestine, this summary emphasizes attempts at impartiality in governing the Mandate. It notes that in 1922, the Jewish community already possessed ‘national’ characteristics, while the Arab community’s composition was sociologically and economically divided and to a large degree impoverished by the war.

During the May 2021 Israeli-Palestinian clashes, Arab citizens of Israel clashed with Jewish- Israelis. By comparison in October 2000, similar clashes were longer, more intense with similar underlying causation. Read the context with the findings of the Or Commission Report that investigated them.

Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli SperlingEmory University and Center for Israel Educationkenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu Adnan Abu Amer, “Palestinian factions mull next steps after Abbas calls off elections,” Al-Monitor, May 7, 2021. https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/05/palestinian-factions-mull-next-steps-after-abbas-calls-elections Anan Abu Baker, “Postponed Palestinian Elections: Causes and Repercussions,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, May 11, 2021. https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/84509 Associated Press, “World Bank: Lebanon’s crisis […]

Isaac “Bougie” Herzog’s election as Israel’s 11th president on June 2 was such “big” news that it was all but impossible to find on the home page of The Times of Israel a day later. That’s because reporting on a largely ceremonial position was overwhelmed by the end of a two-year wait for the monumental announcement of an eight-party government coalition, including Islamist Arabs and religious Zionist Jews, to unseat the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history.

On June 2, 2021, Isaac Herzog was elected over Miriam Peretz to a seven-year term as Israel’s 11th president. When he takes office in July, succeeding Reuven Rivlin, he will become the first second-generation Israeli president: His father, Chaim, held the position from 1983 to 1993. How was he elected? What was the process to […]

¿Que es la cultura? Un sistema de creencias, valores, costumbres, ideas, comportamientos, símbolos, rasgos, mitos y tradiciones compartidos que los miembros de un grupo definen como propios y utilizan para enfrentarse a su mundo, a los demás, a los extranjeros y extraños, y de alguna manera transmitirlo de generación en generación. Ver Powerpoint

Tras una semana de la guerra de junio de 1967, el Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Israel Abba Eban relató con gran exactitud el porqué Israel utilizó sus fuerzas armadas contra los estados árabes para prevenir la destrucción del estado judío.

The Center for Israel Education’s “Israel: In Context and on the Ground” webinar series May 28, 2021, features a 54-minute discussion among Dr. Ken Stein, Dr. Sara Feuer and Rabbi Mario Karpuj to put the 11 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas into the larger context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israeli and Palestinian politics, Middle Eastern diplomacy, and media coverage. A bibliography for further study is included.

Esta cronología omite las guerras de 1948 y 1956 y cualquier mención de las tensiones crecientes árabe-israelíes desde 1947 hasta mayo de 1967. Ese contexto es esencial para comprender la aversión apasionada que Egipto y otros estados y poblaciones árabes tenían por Israel antes de la guerra de junio de 1967, así como el nivel […]

Professor Kenneth Stein, Center for Israel Education, Dicembre 2020 Gli eventi e le citazioni qui citati dimostrano l’importanza politica e religiosa, nonché l’attrazione di Gerusalemme per il cristianesimo, l’islam e l’ebraismo, e quando nel tempo ognuno dei tre monoteismi ha controllato parti della città. Altre voci qui riportate fanno notare quando, e/o perché, califfi, chiese, […]

Profesor Kenneth Stein, Center for Israel Education10 de mayo de 2021 Elementos anteriormente presentes en los éxitos de las negociaciones árabe-israelíes  Nueve condiciones previas que permitieron que las negociaciones árabe-israelíes se desarrollaran con éxito en los años 70 y 90 no están presentes hoy en día. Los acuerdos egipcio-israelíes y jordano-israelíes se produjeron porque las […]

Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli SperlingEmory University and Center for Israel Educationkenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu Christophe Abi-Nassif, “The Unfolding struggle for political survival in Lebanon,” Middle East Institute, April 27, 2021. https://www.mei.edu/publications/unfolding-struggle-political-survival-lebanon Naama Barak, “In Tel Aviv, amazing Brutalist architecture hides in plain sight,” Israel21c, April 21, 2021. https://www.israel21c.org/in-tel-aviv-amazing-brutalist-architecture-hides-in-plain-sight/   Katherine Bauer and Matthew Levitt, “Hamas Fields […]

Nine pre-conditions that enabled Arab-Israeli negotiations to unfold successfully in the 1970s and 1990s are not present today. Egyptian-Israeli and Jordanian-Israeli agreements occurred because the respective sides wanted them and needed them.

Newsworthy stories unfold in Israel at breathtaking rates. Repeated elections, COVID-19 responses, path-breaking Supreme Court decisions, the Abraham Accords — all are worthy of community discussion and age-appropriate student exploration. Yet few Jewish students and their parents possess sufficient understanding or discussion skills to explain them beyond a passing headline.

Existe uma conexão entre o autogoverno do povo judeu na diáspora, a autonomia política sionista durante o Yishuv e a cultura política israelense atual. Da mesma forma, as origens da democracia israelense remontam desde o período de centenas de anos em que ocorreram as diásporas judaicas, durante a transição ao movimento sionista até a criação do Estado judeu; a partir das aliyot anteriores ao Mandato da Palestina até a consolidação do Estado e desde 1948.