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IsraelStudies

Volume 18 Number 3 Fall 2013

Special Section: Roundtable on the Status of Women in Israel Today

ContentsVolume 18 Number 3 Fall 2013

Special Section—Roundtable on the Status of Israeli Women TodayIntroduction

Pnina Lahav 1From Law to Politics: The Path to Gender Equality

Noya Rimalt 5The Self-Defeating Nature of “Modesty”— Based Gender Segregation

Zvi Triger 19Men’s Groups as a New Challenge to the Israeli Feminist Movement: Lessons from the Ongoing Gender War over the Tender Years Presumption

Dafna Hacker 29

ArticlesIsraeli Approved Textbooks and the 1948 Palestinian Exodus

Rafi Nets-Zehngut 41The Imagined Audience of Israeli Army Radio: An Historical Perspective

Oren Soffer 69The Swiss Armed Forces as a Model for the IDF Reserve System—Indeed?

Yitzhak Greenberg 95“Mom, I’m Home”: Israeli Lebanon-War Films as Inadvertent Preservers of the National Narrative

Yuval Benziman 112

From Philanthropy to Shaping a State: Hadassah and Ben-Gurion, 1937–1947

Zohar Segev 133Teaching Israel at American Universities: Growth, Placement, and Future Prospects

Annette Koren, Janet Krasner Aronson, 158 Leonard Saxe

Notes on Contributors 179Guidelines for Contributors 182

The cover: (see Noya Rimalt, “From Law to Politics: The Path to Gender Equality” in the Special Section: Roundtable on the Status of Women in Israel Today

Women in Israel Female Members of Knesset from left to right: Karin Alharrar (Yesh Atid); Michal Biran (Avoda); Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid); Rina Frenkel (Yesh Atid); Zahava Gal-On (Meretz); Gila Gamliel (Likud Beitenu); Yael German (Yesh Atid); Tzipi Hotovely (Likud Beitenu); Yifat Kariv (Yesh Atid); Fania Kirshenbaum (Likud Beitenu); Adi Koll (Yesh Atid); Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid); Orly Levi-Abekasis (Likud Beitenu); Limor Livnat (Likud Beitenu); Tzipi Livni (Hatenua); Merav Michaeli (Avoda); Shuli Moalem-Refaeli (HaBayit HaYehudi); Miri Regev (Likud Beitenu); Michal Rozin (Meretz); Stav Shafir (Avoda); Ayelet Shaked (HaBayit HaYehudi); Orit Strock (HaBayit HaYehudi); Penina Tamanu-Shata (Yesh Atid); Shelly Yachimovich (Avoda); Tamar Zandberg (Meretz); Hanin Zoabi (National Democratic Assembly); Sofa Landver (Likud Beitenu). [Photos from the Knesset website] Courtesy of the Knesset

IsraelStudies

Volume 18 Number 3 Fall 2013

EditorsS. Ilan Troen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / Brandeis University

Natan Aridan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Edna Oxman, Copy Editor

Editorial BoardMajid Al-Haj, Haifa University

Gannit Ankori, Brandeis UniversityArnold J. Band, University of California, Los Angeles

Uri Bialer, The Hebrew University of JerusalemAlain Dieckhoff, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris

Eliezer Don-Yehiya, Bar-Ilan UniversityAlan Dowty, University of Notre Dame

Tuvia Friling, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevDaniel Kurtzer, Princeton University

Pnina Lahav, Boston UniversityMoshe Lissak, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Amos Oz, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevDerek Penslar, Oxford University

Shulamit Reinharz, Brandeis UniversityGabi Sheffer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Moshe Shemesh, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevEugene Sheppard, Brandeis University

Ofer Shiff, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevColin Shindler, S.O.A.S, University of London

Russell A. Stone, American University, Washington, D.C.Chaim I. Waxman, Rutgers University

Alex Weingrod, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevYael Zerubavel, Rutgers University

Ronald Zweig, New York University