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Prof. Yechiam Weitz January 2021 CURRICULUM VITAE

1. PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Yechiam Weitz Place and Date of Birth: , Jan. 20, 1951 Marital Status: Married + 3 children Citizenship and Identity Card Number: 5032246 Home Address: He-Halutz St, 16 Jerusalem 9692113 Home Telephone number: 04-8110889 Office Address and Phone: Dept. of Eretz Yisrael Studies, University No. Tel. 04-8240476 Telefax Number: 04 – 8240959

2. HIGHER EDUCATION

Period of Study Name of Institution Degree Date of Degree and Department 1972 – 1977 General History and B.A. 1977 General Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Degree 1977 – 1981 History and Contemporary awarded cum 1981 Jewry, The Hebrew laude M.A University of Jerusalem 1982 – 1987 The Institute of Ph.D. Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

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3. ACADEMIC RANKS AND TENURE IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIG

HER EDUCATION

לחיצה על כפתור Tab – תוסיף שורות לטבלה. Dates Name of Institution and Rank/Position Department 1991 Eretz - Israel Studies Dept. , lecturer

University of Haifa 1997 Eretz - Israel Studies senior lecturer Dept., University of Haifa tenure

2002 Eretz- Israel Studies Dept., Associate Professor

University of Haifa 2010 University Haifa Full Professor 4. OFFICES IN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION

The Chair of the Department of Eretz - Israel studies, University of Haifa. (2005 – 2007) Member of the Editorial Board, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1999 - 2005 ) M. A. Advisor, Department of Eretz - Israel Studies (1999 - 2002 ) The Chair of Eretz-Israel's Studies Center, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and University of Haifa (1997-2001) B.A. Advisor, Department of Eretz Yisrael Studies (1991 - 1997)

5 . SCHOLARLY POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY 1984-1986 Research Fellow, The Shaul Avigur Inter-University Project for the Study of Illegal Immigration 1988 - 1989 Herzl Fellow, The Institute for the Study of Zionism and the Yishuv, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1991 - Research Fellow at the Seminar on Israeli Society During the 1950's, The Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. 3

1982 - 1991 Assistant Editor, Yahadut Zemanenu - A Research Annual, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1992 – 2001 Chief Editor, Yahadut Zemanenu - A Research Annual, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Herzl Institute, Haifa University 1996 - Research Fellow, The Ben-Gurion Research Center, Sde-Boker 1997 Research Fellow, The Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 1999 - 2005 Member of the Editorial Board, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi) 2003 Research Follow, Dunov Institution, Leipzig, Germany

.6. Participation in Scholarly Conferences

Date Name of Conference Place of Conference Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments 1. 2010 The Leadership in Ben-Gurion The Leadership of Ben-Gurion Israel in the 50th Institute , Sde- And Begin in the 50th 1.2009 Ben-Gurion- New Look Boker The Attitude of Ben-Gurion Ben-Gurion towards the Revisionist Institute, Sde- Movement Boker 9.2008 History and Law The Place of Hausner in Yad Ben-Zvi Eichmann Trial

7.2008 The Third Decadence Yad Ben-Zvi Golda Meir as the 4th Prime of Israel Minister of Israel 2.2008 History and Law University of “Ha-Olam Ha-Ze” and Haifa Eichmann Trial 1.2008 1948 Generation The Hebrew The Political Dimension University Of the Generation

1.2008 The History of “Yair”’ University of Between and Haifa “Yair” (Abraham Stern) 4.2007 The World of Ben- Bar-Ilan Ben-Gurion and Eichmann Trial Gurion University 3.2007 15 years to Begin’s University of Begin’s Disappear in 1951 Death Haifa 4

5.2006 The Civil Society in Yad Ben-Zvi The Political Arena in 1948 1948 8.2005 Fifty Years to The World Kastner Trial in History Kastner’s Murder Congress of Perceptive Jewish Studies 3.2005 100 years to Enzo The Hebrew Sereny as a Political Figure Sereny’s Death University 3.2005 Forty Years to Adenauer Adenauer in Ben-Gurion’s eyes Diplomat Connotation Institute between Germany and Israel 11.2004 “Lavon Affair” University of “Lavon Affair”- New Sight Haifa 5.2004 “The Jeckes” Adenauer The Place of the “Jeckes” in Institute the Reparation’s Process 5.2005 60th years after the Paris Kastner Trial" and the Israeli Holocaust in Hungary society

3.2004 60th to the IZL’s Revolt University of From IZL to “Herut Movement” Haifa 3.2002 Ten Years to Begin’s University of The Attitude of Begin towards Death Haifa the Holocaust 6.2000 120 to Jabotinsky’s Ben-Gurion The Struggle on Jabotinsky’s Death University Heritage in the Revisionist Movement 12.1999 University of Sharett and the Reparation Moshe Sharett’s Haifa from Germany Heritage 11.1998 The Historian and the The Hebrew The Involvement of the Society University Intellectuals in the Lavon Affair 6.1998 Judging and Judgment Tel-Aviv The Law for Punishment of the in the Shadow of the University Nazis and their Collaborators Holocaust as an Expression of the Israeli Society's Attitude Toward the Holocaust in the 1950’s

4.1998 Fifty Years to the State Van Leer Ben-Gurion’s Final Resignation in 1963 2.1996 A Hundred Years to The Hebrew The Debate Concerning the 5

Hebrew Culture University Role of Culture in the State's First Years 7.1995 History and Law University of The Kastner Trial, the Haifa Eichmann Trial and the Israeli Society, 12.1994 A Hundred Years of University of Towards an Understanding of Historiography of Haifa the Term of the Beginning of Zionism , the State of Israel 3.1994 From Selective Aliya Bar-Ilan The Awareness Concerning the to Mass Aliya University Holocaust and the Dilemma of Selective Immigration 10.1993 Crisis and Reaction: Creighton Was Israel Kastner a Hero? The Hero in Jewish University History 6.1993 The World Congress of The Hebrew Mapai Faces the Election the Jewish Studies University Results to the Third 6.1993 The International Yad Vashem Shaping the Memory of the Scientific Conference Holocaust in Israeli Society of of Yad Vashem the 1950’s 3.1993 Fifty to Warsaw The Ghetto Regarding the Term Ghetto’s Rebellion Fighters House “Resistance” in the “Kastner Trial”,

6.1992 The History of the University of Kastner Trial and Herut Revisionist Movement Haifa Movement 5.1992 Cathedra Discussion Yad Ben-Zvi Changing Conceptions of the Holocaust: The Kastner Case 8.1991 The Israeli Society in Oxford Centre for Mapai and Kastner Trial the 50th Postgraduate Hebrew Studies

6.1991 The History of the University of New Approaches in the Study Revisionist Movement Haifa of the Revisionist Movement 6.1990 The History of the University of The Revisionist Movement and Revisionist Movement Haifa the 4th Aliya 8.1989 The World Congress of The Hebrew The Roots of the Mass Jewish Studies University Immigration 5.1989 Cathedra Discussion Yad Ben-Zvi The Jewish Refugees in the Zionist Policy during the 6

Holocaust, 1.1989 Mythos and History Van Leer Yishuv, Diaspora, and Holocaust - Myth and Reality 6.1987 The Youth Movements The Ghetto The Struggle for the Image of in the Holocaust Fighters House 'Hechalutz' in the Labor Movement in Palestine, 1943- 1945,

6.1986 Society and Culture in The Open The Yishuv's Self-Image and the Yishuv and the University the Reality of the Holocaust, State 10.1985 The International Yad Vashem Mapai's Programs Regarding Scientific Conference She'erit Hapletah of Yad Vashem

8. SCHOLARSHIPS, PRIZES , RESEARCH GRANTS PRIZES 2015 - Jabotinsky Prize 2007 Hilel Kook Prize 2005 - Prime Minister Menacham Begin Prize 2005 - Ben-Zvi Prize

1993 - Randolph Braham Prize, University of Haifa SCHOLARSHIPS

2000 - Research Fellowship, R. Hecte Foundation (2000). 1999 - Research Fellowship, Littauer Foundation, New- York 1998 - Research Scholarship, Konrad Adenauer Foundation 1997 - Research Scholarship, Littauer Founation, New-York 1996 - Research Scholarship, Baden - Wurtemberg Government

The Memorial Foundation‘s Grants

1994 - 1995 (post-doctoral grant). 1993 - 1994 (post-doctoral grant). 1990 - 1991 (post-doctoral grant). 1987 - 1988 (special doctoral scholarship for outstanding students) 1986 - 1987 (doctoral scholarship). 1984 - 1985 (doctoral scholarship). 7

Yad Vashem’s Grants 1985 (Ph.D. award) 1980 (M.A. award)

9. Courses Taught in Recent Years

Year Name of Course Type of Course Degree

2003/4 From Ze’ev Jabotinsky into Menchem Begin – Seminar B.A. the History of the Revisionist Movement (1925-1948)

2003/4 The Crucial Decisions in the First Decade in Seminar M.A. the Israel (The Mass Immigration; The Reparation of West Germany; Sinai War; Eichmann Trail)

2004/5 From the “Esek Ha-Bish” (The Scandal in Seminar B.A. Egypt) to “Lavon Affair” (1954-1961)

2004/5 The Seminar M.A. Period of Levi Eshkol – the Third Prime Minister (1963-1969) 2005/6 The Debate about the Partition Plans from Peel Seminar B.A. Committee to the UN’s Decision (1937-1947)

2006/7 The Leadership in the Zionist Movement and in Seminar M.A. Israel (Weizmann, Ben-Gurion, Sharett, Eshkol, Meir, Begin) 2007/8 The Zionist Left between Socialist and Seminar B.A. Nationally: from “Gdud Ha-Avoda” (The Workers Battalion) to “Prague Trail”

2008/9 The Poet Natan Alterman as Political Seminar M.A Figure 10. Supervision of Graduate Students 8

Name of Student Title of Thesis Degree Date of Details of Completion / Publication in Progress

Tamar Gazit The Attitude of the Ha- M.A. 1999

Kibutz Ha-Memuhad toward

Germany, 1945-1959 Tal Fried Official Israeli Institutions M.A 2002 in Pursuit of Nazi War Criminals, 1945-1960 Oren - Mencham Begin as Leader M.A 2002 Rosenberg of Opposition Party (Herut Movement -1949- 1952) Amir Goldstein The Growth of the Myth of M.A. 2003 Zion 72/1 the Gallows in the (2006), pp. 63-90 Revisionist Movement

Merav Barzily Herut Movement in "Sulam"'s M.A. 2003 (With Prof. Y. Eyes Gelber) Eran Mozes The Political Way of Ahdut M.A. 2004 Ha-Avoda Party, 1954-1957 Nir Yessod The Way of Mati Peled (1973- M.A. 2005 1984 ) Yaniv Ben-Uzi The "General Zionists" Party, M.A. 2005 Cathedra 1948-1955 127 (April 2008), pp. 141-168 Ofira Grovyse – The Development of the Myth M.A. 2006 Kivonim Kovalsky of "Altalena" in “Herut” Hadasim Movement 14 (June 2006),

pp.193- 207 Rakefet Dayan Between Hannah and Saint M.A. 2007 Joan – Hannah Senesh : Between the Figure and Image Uri Schacham Abba Khoushy as Mayor of M.A. 2008 9

Haifa (1951-1959) Reut Ben-Arye Yitzhak Raphael as the Head M.A. 2009 of the Alliya Department in the Jewish Agency (1948-1953) Gilad Maniv The Place of the Individual in M.A. 2010 the Kibbutz Movement “Ha- Ichud” (1951-1968)

Lior Inbar The Attitude of Yitzhak M.A. 2010 Tabenkin

towards the Holocaust (1939-

1955) M.A 2010 Gal Hadari The Economic in the Eyes of

With Dr. Gal Ze’ev Jabotinsky

Gerson

Vered Shochat The Holocaust in “Davar M.A. 2012 Leyeladim” during the WWII

Asnat Bar Heruth Movement and “Lavon M.A. 2012 Affair”

Noga Cohavi The Debate between Ben-

Gurion and Goldmann about

The future of the Zionist M.A. 2013

Abraham Ben- Moshe Dayan as Minister of M.A. 2013 Meir Agriculture (1959-1964)

Tzzchi The Debate in Heruth Solomonovich Movement about the M.A. 2013

General Histadrut

Shlomi Nagar The Police in Jerusalem in M.A. 2013 1948

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Gil Litman The Attitude of Menachem M.A 2014 Begin and its Party toward the Ramat Ha-Golan

Itzhak Haviyo Prime Minister Menachem M.A 2015 Begin in the eyes of the Israeli

Press

Nadav Heidecker The Election of Municipalities M.A 2015 and its Significant Merav Sagi The Demjanjuk Trial and the M.A. 2016 Bar-Ilan Israeli Society University Noam Warsner The Place of Survives in the Knesset in the 50th M.A. 2016

Zvi Porat Minister of Defense Moshe M.A. 2017 Bar-Ilan Dayan in the eyes of the Israeli

University Press

Aryeh Dayan The Black Panthers Movement M.A. 2017 in Israel Ayelet Hillman Lohanei Ha-Geta’ot Kibbutz M.A. 2019 and its Museum Aryeh Shilo Zevulun Hammer as Political Bar-Ilan Figure M.A. 2020 University

Baz Ozacky The Attitude of Chaim Lazar M.A, 2020 With Dr. Ofira towards the Holocaust

Gruweis-

Kovalsk Israel Galili as the Leader of Tzachi Paz the Ha-Hagana M.A. In Progress Bar-Ilan University

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ה Amir Goldstein Heurt Movement - Liberal Ph. D. 2006

Party Block (Gahal) (1965- 1970) Arnon Levi Eshkol’s Rise to Power in Ph. D. 2008 Lammfromm Mapai (1944-1965) Ayala Nedivi The Palestine Office in Ph.D. 2009 (With Dr. R. Budapest (1943-1945 Vago) Ofira Gruweis– The Myths of the Herut Ph. D. 2009 Kovalsky Movement Cum launde

(With Prof. M. Azaryahu) Hagai Tsoref Golda Meirson (Meir) as the Ph. D. 2011 Minister of the Labor (1949-

1956) Luis Fisher The Development of the Peace Ph.D. 2015 Process with Egypt (1973-

Abraham Ben- 1979) Ph. D. 2016 Meir The End of the Mandate in

With Prof. Yoav Palestine (1945 – 1947 ) Gelber Noga Cohavi The Attitude of Moshe Sharett Ph.D. 2017 and Nachum Goldmann toward the Diaspora Ph.D. 2018 Leah Klatch The Women of Mapai in the University Knesset 1949 – 1977 Bar-Ilan Nadav Heidecker Between City and State in Ph. D. 2019 With Prof. Israel 1947-1951

Arnon Golan Yesha Akron The Arabic Unit of the Ph. D. 2019 With Prof. Areyh Phalmach (1941-1949) Kopsky

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Itzhak Heviyo The Defense Settlement Ph. D. 2019 With Prof. Organization (1967 – 1992) Arnon Golan

Gil Isaak Shamir as a Political Ph.D. 2020 Litman Figure 1970-1983

Ph. D In Progress Arnon Cohen The Political Way of Natan

With Dr, Ofira Yelin- Mor Ph. D. In Progress Gruweis- The Debate about the Military

Kovalsky Regime in Israel 1949-1966

The Survives and the Areyh Dayan Holocaust Ph. D. In Progress Institutes Aleyet Hilman The Second Israel North Ph. D. In Progress Kingdom – The Upper Galilee Ofer Beharal Regional Council Ph. D. In Progress With Prof. Amir The Peace Movement in Israel Goldstein (1977-1979) Yair Klaynboym With Prof. Yoav Gelber