Yoram Peri

• University of Maryland, College Park

David Greenblum, From the Heroism of the Spirit to the Sanctification of Power: Power and Heroism in Religious Zionism between 1948 and 1968 (Tel Aviv: Open University, 2016). Uri S. Cohen, The Security Style and the Hebrew Culture of War (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2017). Dan Arev, Dying to Watch: War, Memory, and Television in Israel 1967–1991...

Few countries receive as much attention as Israel and are at the same time as misunderstood. The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society brings together leading Israeli and international figures to offer the most wide-ranging treatment available of an intriguing country. It serves as a comprehensive reference for the growing field of Israel...

“Media systems are shaped by the wider context of political history, structure, and the culture” (Hallin and Mancini, 2004: 46). Indeed, anyone who wishes to understand the structure of Israel's media institutions today must adopt a broad historical perspective, covering almost ninety years. This journey begins with the formation of a Jewish politi...

Previous research has demonstrated that exposure to news media increases viewers’ concerns about national security, as well as their mistrust of politicians and government. However, the contribution of entertainment media to security concerns and trust in government has received only scant attention in previous research, conducted mainly in the Ame...

Relations between the media and military affairs, or the media and the security field, have been dramatically altered since 1973 and even more so since the early 1990s. Media outlets have transformed from subservient and deferential into a confrontational model, and the military ceased to be a "sacred cow". If, in the past, the media were only as a...

:In the summer of 2005 the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) carried out one of its largest military campaigns in many years. Fifty thousand soldiers were sent to confront an adversary numbering ten thousand. But unlike the past, the adversary was not an external enemy. It was a section of the Israeli population. Only once before had an Israeli governme...

In recent decades, audience options for current affairs information have been multiplying. Globalization and media segmentation present citizens with a variety of news outlets for political information in addition to those offered by the mainstream communication channels, which once dominated every nation state. In this article, survey data gathere...

The frequent referencing of service to the public interest as a core professional journalistic value raises the question of the correspondence between the perception of journalists and the public as to what constitutes good and bad journalism. In this study, a sample of Israeli journalists and a sample of the Israeli public were asked a series of q...

Since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995, a fierce struggle have taken place over his commemoration. This is a mnemonic dispute between interpretive communities about the process of commemoration and the forms of remembrance. The media, especially television, took part in this memory dispute. They became the...

While democratic theory calls for an civilian supervision of the military according to the instrumentalist model of political-military relations, Israel has adopted a different model: political-military partnership, a pattern that aroused due to the prolonged conflict with the Palestinians and the Arab states. The IDF's involvement in policy making...

The following is an edited transcript of the twenty-eighth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on March 22, 2002, in the Rayburn House Office Building with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., moderating.

This article examines whether the inauguration of peace between countries has a significant effect on how the news media cover the other side. It is argued that, due to the nature of news, leaders will generally find it easier to mobilize the media for conflict than for peace. However, the actual role the media will play in such attempts can be und...

Media‐security relations in Israel have changed over the past 50 years from deferential journalism and subordination to competition and finally, in the nineties, to the confrontational model. In this paper the causes of these changes are examined. They include technological innovations and new professional orientations, the decline of the security...

A study of the part played by the media in the 1996 elections in Israel reflects on the evolution of new practices of electronic journalism in segmenting democracies. Contrary to prevailing perceptions about the direct barrages of television influences - such as spot advertising, and the televisual promotion of politicians - we show the following:...

During the week following the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin in November 1996, the Israeli media were confronted with a liminal situation created by the unprecedented political violence. Among the problems that emerged were potential social disintegration and anomie. One of the major factors in re-establishing social integration was the reco...

During the week following the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin in November 1996, the Israeli media were confronted with a liminal situation created by the unprecedented political violence. Among the problems that emerged were potential social disintegration and anomie. One of the major factors in re-establishing social integration was the reco...

Israel Studies 1.2 (1996) 230-266 As israel approaches its jubilee, it has become an iconoclastic society. The myths established during its formative years are now being destroyed. The first to attack received truths since 1987 were the revisionist historians, followed by the critical sociologists. It is now the turn of the radical social scientist...

The Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied territories that began in December 1987 poses challenges of an unprecedented nature and difficulty for Israeli society. One of those challenges comes in the form of a conscientious objection to perform military service. Yet the intifada has not appreciably affected the high public support for the arm...

Since the Six-Day War in 1967 a profound transformation has occurred in political- military relations in Israel. National consensus in the security sphere has collapsed. The authority and legitimacy of the political leadership have been shaken, and the army has acquired direct political roles, mainly through the establishment of a military governme...

The protracted war and the centrality of security in Israel raises the Lasswellian question, can parliamentary democracy and political pluralism prevail under such conditions, without turning Israel into a Garrison State? The prevailing understanding of political-military relations in Israel is that the IDF is an instrumentalist army, that it serve...