A Century After Balfour: Vision and Reality

33rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ISRAEL STUDIES A CENTURY AFTER BALFOUR: VISION AND REALITY

June 12-14, 2017 | Brandeis University

33rd Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies A CENTURY AFTER BALFOUR: VISION AND REALITY JUNE 12-14, 2017 | WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIM GANS & SARA HIRSCHHORN BADI HASISI Zionism The Hebrew University of Jerusalem DAVID ELLENSON Chair AZIZA KHAZOOM & ESTHER AMAL JAMAL MEIR-GLITZENSTEIN Tel Aviv University RACHEL FISH Ethnic Identities Conference Coordinator PAULA KABALO ALEX SINCLAIR & OFRA BACKENROTH Sede Boqer, Ben-Gurion University GANNIT ANKORI & TAL DEKEL Education Visual Arts DEREK PENSLAR MICHAL SHAUL & YEHUDAH MIRSKY University of Oxford SHULAMIT REINHARZ & LILACH Religious Studies ROSENBERG-FRIEDMAN JOEL PETERS Gender Studies Virginia Tech CONFERENCE STAFF ANDRÉ LEVY & JUDITH GOLDSTEIN SCHUSTERMAN CENTER SECOND TERM BOARD Anthropology FOR ISRAEL STUDIES, MEMBERS, 2013-2017: BRUCE PHILLIPS & SERGIO BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY DELLA PERGOLA CONFERENCE COORDINATOR MICHAEL BRENNER Communal Studies RACHEL FISH American University and University of Munich ARYE NAOR & YORAM PERI ELI COHN Communications AYELET HAREL-SHALEV KEREN GOODBLATT Ben-Gurion University of the Negev SARA HOROWITZ & YARON PELEG Film and Theater ABBY HUBER JONATHAN MENDILOW ANINA SELVE Rider University MAOZ AZARYAHU & SHAY RABINEAU Geography RISE SINGER LILACH ROSENBERG-FRIEDMAN Bar-Ilan University NAOMI SOKOLOFF & TAMAR HESS Hebrew Literature BOARD OF DIRECTORS, GABRIEL SHEFFER ASSOCIATION FOR The Hebrew University DEREK PENSLAR & AVIVA HALAMISH ISRAEL STUDIES of Jerusalem History PRESIDENT: URIEL ABULOF & YAEL ARONOFF ILAN TROEN FORUM OF IMMEDIATE International Relations Brandeis University PAST PRESIDENTS:

LEN SAXE & JONATHAN RYNHOLD VICE-PRESIDENT: MENACHEM HOFNUNG Israel-Diaspora DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Smith College SUZANNE LAST STONE & RIFAT AZAM GAD BARZILAI Law EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: University of Washington and MOSHE NAOR University of Haifa 2011-2013 TAMARA COFMAN WITTES & STUART University of Haifa COHEN AVIVA HALAMISH National Security TREASURER: The Open University of ILAN BEN-AMI Israel 2009-2011 ILAN PELEG & AS’AD GHANEM The Open University of Israel Arabs in Israel EX OFFICIO JOEL MIGDAL & AYELET HAREL-SHALEV FIRST TERM BOARD Political Science MEMBERS, 2015-2019: YORAM PERI Editor, Israel Studies Review TAMIR SOREK & URI RAM YAEL ARONOFF Sociology Michigan State University PAUL SCHAM Managing Editor, Israel ELIE REKHESS & KHALIL SHIKAKI ODED HAKLAI Studies Review Arab-Israeli Conlict Queen’s University

MONDAY, 9:00-10:30 AM 11:00 AM-12:30 PM 2:00-3:30 PM JUNE 12TH SESSION A SESSION B SESSION C

MA1 MB1 MC1 OLIN-SANG 116 MANDEL G12 MANDEL G3 PANEL 1 Trauma, Victimization Roundtable: Israel-Diaspora Israel-US Relations: Diplomats and Victimhood in in Conversation and Lobbyists Contemporary Israel

MA2 MB2 MC2 MANDEL G11 OLIN-SANG 124 OLIN-SANG 116 PANEL 2 An Intricate Afair: Israel, Inluence of “Israeliness” Transnationalism and the Diaspora and their on the Diaspora Nationalism in Israeli Culture Intersections

MB3 MC3 MA3 OLIN-SANG 101 OLIN-SANG 112 OLIN-SANG 124 The Palestinian Arab Citi- PANEL 3 Contested Division, Disputed Fake-News, Epistemology, zens in Israel: Between Po- Uniication, Jerusalem: Uniica- Empathy, and Israel litical Divergence and Civil tion and Division Convergence

MC4 MB4 MA4 MANDEL G12 HELLER 163 OLIN-SANG 104 Actually Existing Zionism: Is PANEL 4 Hope, Expectation, and Perceptions Within the the State of Israel Not Lord Disillusion in the Making of Israeli-Palestinian Conlict Balfour`s “National Home for Hebrew and Israeli Culture the Jewish People,” After All?

MC5 MB5 MA5 OLIN-SANG 101 OLIN-SANG 104 PANEL 5 OLIN-SANG 112 Land, Nature, and the Innovative Approaches to Israel-US Relations Palestinian/Arab Other Teaching Israel Studies in Jewish Culture

MB6 MC6 MA6 HELLER G4 HELLER G3 MANDEL G12 The British Mandate and the Transforming Israel’s Traditional PANEL 6 Conceptualizations of Transformation of Palestine Societies: An Intersectional Colonialism into a Place to Call Home Perspective on Women’s for Jews Strategies of Change

MA7 MANDEL G10 MB7 MC7 Roundtable: Teaching PANEL 7 MANDEL G10 MANDEL G11 Israeli Politics to Minorities in Israel Zionism in Israel and Beyond North American Undergraduates CONFERENCE OVERVIEW CONFERENCE

~ 2 ~ MA8 MB8 MC8 HELLER G4 MANDEL G3 OLIN-SANG 124 PANEL 8 The Balfour Declaration Inluence of the Balfour Biography and the Building of and Jewish Military Power Declaration a Jewish State

MA9 MB9 OLIN-SANG 101 MC9 OLIN-SANG 116 PANEL 9 Oxford Handbook of HELLER 163 Israeli Security and Diplo- Israeli Politics and Society: Writing Israeli History macy Panel 1: Israel Society

MC10 MA10 MB10 HELLER G4 MANDEL G3 MANDEL G10 PANEL 10 Oxford Handbook of Israeli The Other Anniversary: 50 Israel and Diaspora: Do Politics and Society: Panel 2: Years of Occupation They Share Concerns? Political Institutions

MC11 MA11 MB11 MANDEL G10 HELLER G3 HELLER G3 PANEL 11 How to Teach Israel Studies in Understanding Israeli The Sick Man of Europe and an Age of Shrinking Enrollment National Identity Emerging National Identities in the Humanities

MA12 MB12 HELLER G163 OLIN-SANG 112 PANEL 12 100 Years after Balfour: New Perspectives on Israel Major Debates Military Personnel

MONDAY EVENTS LOCATION TIME

Usdan Student Center WELCOME RECEPTION 3:45 - 4:30 PM Courtyard

Usdan Student Center AWARDS CEREMONY 4:45 - 5:30 PM Levin Ballroom

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Usdan Student Center REFLECTIONS ON THE BALFOUR 5:30 - 6:15 PM Levin Ballroom DECLARATION

Hassenfeld Conference Center BANQUET 6:30 - 8:00 PM Sherman Hall

~ 3 ~ TUESDAY, 9:00-10:30 AM 11:00 AM-12:30 PM 2:00-3:30 PM 4:00-5:30 PM JUNE 13TH SESSION A PLENARY SESSION 1 SESSION C PLENARY SESSION 2

TA1 USDAN STUDENT HELLER G3 USDAN STUDENT TC1 CENTER, Challenging Israel’s CENTER, HELLER G3 LEVIN BALLROOM PANEL 1 Orthodox Hegemony: LEVIN BALLROOM Ethnic and Religious The Role of Contested Visions of 50 Years Since ‘67 Minorities in Israel NGOs Inside/ Jewish Identity Outside of Israel

TA2 MANDEL G10 TC2 PANEL 2 Popular Culture and HELLER 163 the Fate of Ethnicity in Israeli Cinema Contemporary Israel

TC3 TA3 MANDEL G12 OLIN-SANG 124 Deining the Tent: Per- PANEL 3 Materiality and the spectives on Support of, Time of the Present in Engagement with, and Israeli Culture Connection to Israel

TA4 OLIN-SANG 112 TC4 Balfour and State- OLIN-SANG 116 PANEL 4 building: A Century of Peace Negotiations Zionism in International and Personalities Perspective

TA5 TC5 MANDEL G12 OLIN-SANG 112 Contested Division, Field Research and the PANEL 5 Disputed Uniication - Development of Israel Jerusalem: East Studies Curricula on North and West American Campuses

TA6 TC6 OLIN-SANG 104 OLIN-SANG 104 PANEL 6 Education: It’s Inluence of Religion in Complicated Israeli Society

TA7 TC7 HELLER 163 MANDEL G3 PANEL 7 Visions for a Israeli Foreign Policy Jewish State in the Trump Era

TC8 TA8 MANDEL G11 PANEL 8 OLIN-SANG 116 Israeli Ethnicities Israeli Politics Revisited

TC9 TA9 MANDEL G10 PANEL 9 MANDEL G11 Gender and Israeli Educating Israelis Society CONFERENCE OVERVIEW CONFERENCE

~ 4 ~ TA10 TC10 OLIN-SANG 101 PANEL 10 OLIN-SANG 101 Palestinian Arabs in Revisiting Balfour Israeli Society

TA11 MANDEL G3 Oxford Handbook TC11 PANEL 11 of Israeli Politics and OLIN-SANG 124 Society: Panel 3: Israel, Imagining Palestine the World and Diaspora Relations

TC12 TA12 HELLER G4 HELLER G4 PANEL 12 Spies, Sex and Sabich: Formation of Israeli Television in the Israeliness Age of Netlix

TUESDAY EVENTS LOCATION TIME

SCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE Usdan Student Center MIDDLE EAST (SPME) 5:30 - 6:30 PM Courtyard WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION

FILM SCREENING: Shapiro Campus Center Theater 8:00 - 9:30 PM BEN-GURION, EPILOGUE

WEDNESDAY, 9:00-10:30 AM 10:45 AM-12:15 PM 12:45-2:00 PM 2:15-3:45 PM JUNE 14TH SESSION A SESSION B SESSION C SESSION D

WB1 OLIN-SANG 124 WC1 Two Decades Plus Since OLIN-SANG 101 WD1 WA1 “Foreigners Deserve Anti-Zionism(s) in MANDEL G10 PANEL 1 OLIN-SANG 124 Rights?”: What Rights America: Deinitions Teaching and Israeli Culture Do They Deserve and and Historical Evolu- Israel Studies What are Common tions Themes Between Israel and Germany?

WA2 WB2 OLIN-SANG 101 OLIN-SANG 101 WD2 Roundtable: Between WC2 Roundtable: Innova- MANDEL G12 the Rule of Law and MANDEL G11 PANEL 2 tive Pedagogical Violence and States of Emergency: Political Possibilities: Approaches to Revenge in Israeli The Fluid Jurispru- Israelis and Palestinians Teaching Film in Literature dence of the Israeli Israel Studies Regime

WA3 WB3 WC3 HELLER G4 MANDEL G10 MANDEL G3 WD3 Israel and Armed PANEL 3 Political Usages of Roundtable: Campus OLIN-SANG 116 Non-State Actors: Holocaust Memory in Wars and Intellectual Imagining Zion A Shifting Strategic Israel Integrity in Academia Environment

~ 5 ~ WB4 WC4 WD4 WA4 MANDEL G3 OLIN-SANG 104 OLIN-SANG 124 PANEL 4 MANDEL G3 American Perspectives Zionist Imaginings The Holocaust in Israel and Asia on the Balfour after Balfour Israeli Society Declaration

WB5 WC5 WD5 WA5 MANDEL G11 MANDEL G12 OLIN-SANG 104 PANEL 5 HELLER G3 Ghettos, Camps and Israel and Natural Israel and the Israel and the UN Immigration to Israel Resources World

WD6 WA6 WB6 WC6 OLIN-SANG 112 OLIN-SANG 104 HELLER G3 PANEL 6 MANDEL G10 Sociological Israeli Foreign Religion and Society Hebrew Literature Perspectives on Relations in Israel Israeli Society

WD7 WA7 WB7 WC7 MANDEL G3 MANDEL G10 HELLER 163 OLIN-SANG 112 Birthright Israel: PANEL 7 International Inlu- Israeli-Palestinian Religion and Spirituality Transforming ence on the Jewish Relations in Israeli Society Diaspora Engage- State ment with Israel

WB8 WA8 WC8 MANDEL G12 PANEL 8 OLIN-SANG 112 HELLER G4 Israeli Geography and Perceptions of Israel Israel-China Relations Development

WB9 WA9 WC9 HELLER G4 HELLER 163 HELLER G3 PANEL 9 Palestinian Israeli Inluence of Women Jerusalem: Citizens and Political on State Formation A Microcosm Awareness

WB10 WA10 WC10 OLIN-SANG 104 MANDEL G12 HELLER 163 PANEL 10 Six Day War in Societal Challenges Between Tel Aviv Retrospective: in Israel and Jafa 50 Years Later

WB11 WA11 OLIN-SANG 112 PANEL 11 MANDEL G11 Israel on the World Ethiopians in israel Stage

WA12 OLIN-SANG 116 PANEL 12 Roundtable: The Cult of the Occupation CONFERENCE OVERVIEW CONFERENCE

~ 6 ~ WELCOME

I am delighted on On behalf of the behalf of Brandeis Schusterman Center University to welcome for Israel Studies at you to our campus for Brandeis University, the 33rd Annual Con- we are honored to ference of the Associ- welcome you to the ation for Israel Studies. Brandeis campus for This is the second time the 33rd Annual Con- Brandeis has hosted this event. We recognize that ference of the Associ- AIS is the premiere academic society in the world ation for Israel Studies. for the promotion of wide-ranging and multi-dis- We are very pleased ciplinary academic research and exchange of that Brandeis has the scholarly perspectives on Israel, and your program privilege of hosting relects the rich diversity and intellectual eferves- this Conference for cence of the ield. the second time and are especially delight- Israel Studies has long occupied a central position ed that our Founding Director Ilan Troen serves as at Brandeis and we are very proud of the key role President of the Association. It has been a pleasure that Brandeis has played in promoting Israel Stud- for our Associate Director Rachel Fish and me to ies worldwide through our Schusterman Center for work with members of the AIS Program Commit- Israel Studies. This is largely due to the work of the tee and the Senior Executives of the Association Founding Director of our Schusterman Center, Ilan – Moshe Naor and Ilan Ben-Ami – in planning this Troen. His position as the President of your Associ- Conference. The Schusterman Center staf – Rise ation gives us additional reason to celebrate your Singer, Anina Selve, Keren Goodblatt and Abby conference and your being here. Huber – have played an integral role in the realiza-

We hope you enjoy the many oferings at this tion of this conference. Without their hard work, the annual meeting and that you are enriched and Conference could not be the success we anticipate renewed by your days on our campus with your it will be. We express our gratitude to all of you for colleagues. It is a privilege for Brandeis that you your time and eforts in making it so. are here. Enjoy! Brandeis has a rich history in Israel Studies. Ben

Cordially, Halpern was certainly a pioneer in the ield and Jehuda Reinharz and Ilan Troen have been primary RON LIEBOWITZ among those who have been responsible for the President, Brandeis University growth of Israel Studies at Brandeis and throughout the world. Currently, Brandeis ofers a wide ar- ray of Israel Studies courses to both undergraduate and graduate students. We are very proud of the more than one dozen doctoral students who are now studying or completing their graduate work in the many disciplines that constitute Israel Studies at Brandeis. Our Summer Institute for Israel Stud- ies, which brings university professors from North America and other corners of the world to Brandeis and Israel for intensive learning in Israel Studies,

~ 7 ~ remains a diadem in the crown of our Israel Studies Welcome to the 33rd programs, and we derive great satisfaction from Annual Conference the fact that so many alumni of our programs are in of the Association for attendance at AIS. Israel Studies.

As we know, 2017 marks many important moments I have particular plea- in the history of Israel – 1897 (irst Zionist Con- sure in welcoming you gress), 1917 (Balfour Declaration), 1947 (UN General on this occasion. I have Assembly Partition Resolution), 1967 War, 1977 been happily involved with the establishment of the (Ma’apach-Likud party came to power and Anwar Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and still make Sadat visits Jerusalem), and 1987 (the First Intifa- it my home under the leadership of David Ellenson. da). Among these signiicant historical points, we Brandeis was the irst American university to inaugu- decided to focus the theme of this year’s confer- rate a continuing program in Israel Studies, more than ence, A Century After Balfour: Vision and Reality, half a century ago, under the legendary Ben Halpern on the Balfour Declaration as it allows for a con- and his successors, especially Jehuda Reinharz. sideration of all the events marked in these other Holding this second AIS conference at Brandeis en- years. This centenary provides a lens for scholars ables taking measure of what is rapidly transpiring to examine topics such as Israel’s attitudes towards in the ield. Even as Brandeis is a home to exten- imperialism and world powers, Israel in the context sive Israel Studies programs with participants from of the Middle East at a time when an understanding Israel, China, Europe and the Americas, so have AIS of nation-states is transforming, relations between conferences developed a wide-ranging international Diaspora Jews and the Zionist movement and the reach well beyond the handful of American-based State of Israel, the meaning of a Jewish homeland, scholars who founded the AIS in the 1980s. This will the imperative to secure the civil and religious be evident as the hundreds of participants of dif- rights of minority communities in Israel and Pales- ferent backgrounds, disciplines and interests share tine, and the role of international institutions in im- their research in a common commitment to free and plementing the Declaration. These and other issues informed exchange of perspectives. invite research and scholarship that will probe our understanding of the Balfour Declaration’s signii- May you enjoy and beneit from this 33rd annual cance in a multi-disciplinary manner. conference that is but one instrument by which the AIS attempts to serve you as individual scholars The ield of Israel Studies is burgeoning throughout and advance the ield as a whole. the world. Participants from every corner of the globe will be in attendance in Waltham, and we are I ofer special thanks to our hosts, in particular, the certain that the level of intellectual discourse and Program Co-Chair, David Ellenson, and to Rachel Fish, stimulation will be high as so many disciplines and the Associate Director of the Schusterman Center, perspectives will be on display during our multiple as well as to a dedicated, eicient and talented staf sessions. May we all beneit from the learning and including Rise Singer, Anina Selve, Keren Goodblatt, discussions that will take place at the Conference and Abby Huber. All have invested their many talents and may you enjoy the wide menu of oferings laid in assuring the success of a conference that will surely before you in this book. be memorable academically and personally.

Cordially, ILAN TROEN President, Association for Israel Studies DAVID ELLENSON, DIRECTOR Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Chair in Israel Studies RACHEL FISH, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Brandeis University Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University

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MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2017 LAURA ALMAGOR Center for Jewish History REGISTRATION OPEN “A Highway to Battlegrounds”: Jewish Territorialism and the State of Israel, 1945-1960 MANDEL CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES, ATRIUM 7:30-16:00 MA3 OLIN-SANG 124 FAKE NEWS, EPISTEMOLOGY, EMPATHY, SESSION A AND ISRAEL 9:00-10:30 CHAIR: RICHARD LANDES Bar-Ilan University MA1 OLIN-SANG 116 TRAUMA, VICTIMIZATION AND VICTIMHOOD GERALD STEINBERG IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL Bar-Ilan University Examining the Media-NGO Nexus: What Makes a CHAIR: Narrative Credible? ALON CONFINO University of Virginia, Ben Gurion University of MIRIAM ELMAN the Negev Syracuse University ILAN PELEG Fake News and Jerusalem’s Temple Mount/Noble Lafayette College Sanctuary: Destabilizing the World’s Most Contest- ed Holy City The Victimhood Discourse in Israel: from Marginality to Hegemony? NIDRA POLLER Independent Scholar IRIT KEYNAN Center for Academic Studies, Or Yehuda The Demonization of Israel at the Dawn of the New Century by French Journalism, Public Opinion, and Transforming Victimhood: From Competitive Victimhood to Sharing Identity Diplomatic Activity BEN-DROR YEMINI ALON GAN Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and Yediot Achronot the Arts Industry of Lies and Moral Disarray The Victimization Discourse in Israel: Toward Sovereignty? MA4 OLIN-SANG 104 IDO ZELKOVITZ PERCEPTIONS WITHIN THE ISRAELI- Max Stern Yezreel Valley College PALESTINIAN CONFLICT In Search of Revolution: Armed Struggle & CHAIR: Victimhood in the Early Discourse of Creating the ODED HAKLAI Palestinian National Movement Queen’s University Public Mindsets toward the Disputed Territories and the Settlements MA2 MANDEL G11 AN INTRICATE AFFAIR: ISRAEL, THE AMIRA HALPERIN DIASPORA AND THEIR INTERSECTIONS The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University CHAIR: JULIE GRIMMEISEN of Jerusalem Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München Changes in the Israeli-Palestinian Relations and New Technologies Revolution “A Better Human Being:” Jewish Diaspora Images of the New Israeli Woman

~ 9 ~ MA5 OLIN-SANG 112 HAROLD WALLER ISRAEL-US RELATIONS McGill University

CHAIR: YAEL ARONOFF BRUCE PHILLIPS Michigan State University Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles

MITCHELL BARD MA8 HELLER G4 American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise THE BALFOUR DECLARATION AND The Evolution of U.S.-Israel Relations since Balfour JEWISH MILITARY POWER HAROLD ROSENHOLTZ CHAIR: Independent Scholar YEHUDAH MIRSKY The U.S. & Israel: The Politics of “Commitment” Brandeis University

GUY FREEDMAN COLIN SHINDLER Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya University of London The American Public Mood toward Israel The Political and Historical Origins of the Jewish Legion

MA6 MANDEL G12 MICHAEL KEREN CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF COLONIALISM University of Calgary and Emek Israel Academic College CHAIR: Religious Interpretations of the Jewish Legions’ RACHEL FISH Arrival in the Land of Israel Brandeis University BAT-SHEVA MARGALIT STERN SARA YAEL HIRSCHHORN Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies University of Oxford Honor and Blood: Engendering the Debate Settler-Colonialism and Theoretical Alternatives for On Voluntarism - The ‘Eretz Israeli Legion’ as the Conceptualization of Post-1967 Israel/Palestine a Case Study URI RAM ARIE NAOR Ben Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev From Martin Buber to Contemporary Neo-Buberians: Hebrew Battalion and ‘Military Zionism’ German, American and Postcolonial Entanglements of Israeli Sociology

COLIN PEARCE MA9 OLIN-SANG 101 Clemson University OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ISRAELI The Letter and the Speech, or, Defending the Israeli POLITICS AND SOCIETY: State: Leo Strauss, Senator Moynihan, and the PANEL 1: ISRAELI SOCIETY “Zionism is Racism” Debate CHAIR: ORIT ROZIN Tel Aviv University MA7 MANDEL G10 ROUNDTABLE: TEACHING ISRAELI ADANE ZAWDU and Sarah Willen, University POLITICS TO NORTH AMERICAN of Connecticut UNDERGRADUATES Natives and Newcomers in Israel

CHAIR: TAMAR HERMANN LAURA CUTLER The Open University of Israel American University Public Opinion in Israel BRENT SASLEY ARIE PERLIGER, University of Massachusetts, University of Texas, Arlington Lowell, and Ami Pedazur, University of Texas CSABA NIKOLENYI The Territories in Israeli Politics Concordia University

~ 10 ~ MA10 MANDEL G3 OLAF GLOECKNER THE OTHER ANNIVERSARY: 50 YEARS Moses Mendelssohn Center for European- OF OCCUPATION Jewish Studies

CHAIR: Israel, Europe, Diaspora and the New Anti-Semitism MIRA SUCHAROV ANNE WEBERLING Carleton University University of Potsdam Young Diaspora Jews and the Occupation: Structuring the Major Debates Constituting Identity from the Green Line ALAN DOWTY GERSHON SHAFIR University of Notre Dame University of California, San Diego Israel as a Democratic State What is the Occupation? JUDIT BOKSER LIWERANT MARCO ALLEGRA National University of Mexico Universidad de Lisboa Changing Patterns of Center-Diaspora Relations: Planning and Beyond: Israel’s Settlement Policy and Inner Dynamics and External Constraints in a the Normalization of Jewish Life in the West Bank Transnational World AEYAL GROSS Tel Aviv University COFFEE BREAK The Writing on the Wall: Can the Occupation 10:30-11:00 Turn 50 Legally?

SESSION B MA11 HELLER G3 11:00-12:30 UNDERSTANDING ISRAELI NATIONAL IDENTITY MB1 MANDEL G12 CHAIR: AVIVA HALAMISH ROUNDTABLE: ISRAEL-DIASPORA The Open University of Israel IN CONVERSATION CHAIR: JUDAH TROEN DAVID ELLENSON The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Brandeis University Negation of the Diaspora and the New-Jew: The Changing Contours of a Multifaceted Identity Project MOAV VARDI Channel 10 News Diplomatic Correspondent NAHUM KARLINSKY, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Mustafa Kabha, The Open University ADDITIONAL SPEAKER TBD of Israel The Citrus Industry in Late British Mandate MB2 OLIN-SANG 124 Palestine INFLUENCE OF “ISRAELINESS” AMIR LOCKER-BILETZKI ON THE DIASPORA Concordia University CHAIR: Empire and Nationalism in Mosh Sneh’s STEVEN BAYME “On the National Question” American Jewish Committee

ROHEE DASGUPTA MA12 HELLER 163 O.P. Jindal Global University 100 YEARS AFTER BALFOUR: Jewish Identity and Israeli Sister Cities MAJOR DEBATES SARA YAEL HIRSCHHORN CHAIR: University of Oxford RAPHAEL COHEN ALMAGOR From Jerusalem to JStreet to Johannesburg University of Hull and Back: 1967 and the Whitening of the Jewish Diasporas

~ 11 ~ CARY NELSON MB5 OLIN-SANG 104 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING The Diasporic Disconnect: Alienation and the ISRAEL STUDIES Peace Process CHAIR: MORRIE FRED University of Chicago MB3 OLIN-SANG 101 Using Film to Teach the “Anthropology of Israel” THE PALESTINIAN ARAB CITIZENS IN ISRAEL: BETWEEN POLITICAL PIERRE ANCTIL DIVERGENCE AND CIVIL CONVERGENCE University of Ottawa Interdisciplinarity as a Method of Discussing the CHAIR: Arab-Israeli Conlict in a Canadian Context ELIE REKHESS Northwestern University IRA ROBINSON Concordia University FAHIMA ABBAS The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Between Religious Studies and Political Science: Teaching “Israel: Religion and State” The Integration of Arab Middle Class in the Metropolitan Areas of Tel Aviv and Haifa DINA ROGINSKY Yale University MOHANAD MUSTAFA Center for Academic Studies, Or Yehuda Emphasizing Multi-vocality in Israel Studies Teaching Higher Education Among Palestinians in Israel: Social and Political Transformation KHINVRAJ JANGID O.P. Jindal Global University RONNI SHAKED The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Who are the “Yehudi log?”: Teaching Israel in India Political Radicalization in the Arab Public Sphere in Israel MB6 HELLER G4 ITAMAR RADAI THE BRITISH MANDATE AND THE Tel Aviv University TRANSFORMATION OF PALESTINE INTO al-Madaniyyat: An Alternative Civil Agenda for A PLACE TO CALL HOME FOR JEWS the Arab Citizens? CHAIR: DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE Smith College MB4 HELLER 163 HOPE, EXPECTATION, AND DISILLUSION IN MOSHE NAOR, University of Haifa and ABIGAIL THE MAKING OF HEBREW AND JACOBSON, Van-Leer Jerusalem Institute ISRAELI CULTURE Oriental Jews in the Transition to the

CHAIR: British Mandate BAT-ZION KLORMAN-ERAQI ARIE DUBNOV The Open University of Israel The George Washington University ARIEH SAPOSNIK On Vertical Alliances and Informal Imperialism, or: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Between the Balfour Declaration (1917) and the Balfour Formula (1926) “Hosanna!—The British have Arrived”: Zionist Expectations and Redemptive Eschatologies after ELIA ETKIN Balfour and British Conquest Tel Aviv University OREN KALMAN A Neighborhood of One’s Own: Formation of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Jewish Neighborhoods under the British Mandate Why is the Issue of Cultural Coercion Missing from MATAN BOORD the Mizrachi Discourse of Early Israeli Statehood? Tel Aviv University ELAD WEXLER Literature’s Role in Reducing Ambiguity Regarding Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Labor Circles in Dahn Ben-Amotz, the Zionist Ethos and a Mandate Palestine Spiritual Crisis

~ 12 ~ MB7 MANDEL G10 MB9 OLIN-SANG 116 MINORITIES IN ISRAEL ISRAELI SECURITY AND DIPLOMACY

CHAIR: CHAIR: ANDRÉ LEVY MARK HELLER Brandeis University Tel Aviv University

AZIZA KHAZZOOM AMIT SHENIAK Indiana University Bloomington Harvard University Identiication with Non-Jewish Arabs Among The Israeli National Cyberspace: The Legitimization Alliance Educated Iraqi Immigrants to Israel Process of Israel’s Cyber-Security Policy

RIMA FARAH GIL MEROM Brandeis University The University of Sydney Reviving an Aramaic Identity in Israel: Maronites’ Learning, Strategy, Ethics, and the Law: Continued Rejection of Arabism by Resurrecting a The Evolution of the IDF’s Asymmetric Christian Politics of Identity Conlict Behavior

YAEL MIZRAHI-ARNAUD AVIAD LEVY Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Studies Keep Calm and Stay Frustrated: The Unspoken The Jews of Sidon and the Yishuv: A Story of Emotional Dimensions of Israeli Diplomacy Dynamism and Support in Europe

SIGAL NAGAR-RON Sapir Academic College, and HAGAR TZAMERET, Sapir Academic College MB10 MANDEL G11 The Wiping Out of the Social Category of Mizrahi ISRAEL AND DIASPORA: DO THEY and the Emergence of the “Periphery Index”: SHARE CONCERNS? How Intra-Jew Divisions Transform into a Spatial Problem? CHAIR: ELI AVRAHAM University of Haifa and Reut Cohen, University MB8 MANDEL G3 of Haifa INFLUENCE OF THE BALFOUR Image Repair and Strategies in Fighting BDS, DECLARATION Anti-Semitism and the Boycott of Israeli Academia

CHAIR: HANNA SHAUL BAR NISSIM, Brandeis University COLIN SHINDLER and HILLEL SCHMID, Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of London Intergenerational Transmission of Philanthropic MOSHE FOX Values and Behavior Among Israeli Donors Israel’s Foreign Ministry REUT BENDRIHEM The Impact of “Jewish inluence”—the case of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev the Balfour Declaration “Lehitnachel Balevavot” as Moral Entrepreneurship: MARTIN KRAMER the Case of the “Garin Torani” in Mitzpe Ramon Shalem College The Allied Balfour Declaration MB11 HELLER G3 IAN LUSTICK THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE AND University of Pennsylvania EMERGING NATIONAL IDENTITIES The Balfour Declaration 100 Years Later: A Radically and Accidentally Relevant Document CONVERSATION WITH AN ARTIST

DOR GUEZ Head of the Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

GANNIT ANKORI Brandeis University

~ 13 ~ MB12 OLIN-SANG 112 INNA NARODITSKAYA NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ISRAELI Northwestern University MILITARY PERSONNEL Israeli Soundscape and Daily Life/Online

CHAIR: JANET WARD ELISHEVA ROSMAN University of Oklahoma Bar-Ilan University Tel Aviv Bauhaus: The Construction of Transnational Melting Pot or Pressure Cooker: The IDF’s Efect on and Zionist Vernacular Urban Modernism Bridging Social Schisms

AHARON KAMPINSKY MC3 OLIN-SANG 112 Efrata College CONTESTED DIVISION, DISPUTED From Cooperation to Defensiveness: The Paradox of Religious Soldiers in the IDF UNIFICATION, JERUSALEM: UNIFICATION AND DIVISION ITAMAR RICKOVER CHAIR AND DISCUSSANT: Bar-Ilan University NOAH RUBIN From Balfour Declaration to the Six Day War— University of Michigan Changes in the Character of the Jewish Warrior OREN SHLOMO LUNCH BREAK Harvard University 12:30-14:00 Contemporary Transformation in East Jerusalem: Territorialization, Infrastructural Services, and Shifting of Urban Politics SESSION C MARIK SHTERN 14:00-15:30 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Towards “Ethno-National Peripheralization?” Economic Dependency Amidst Political Resistance MC1 MANDEL G3 in Palestinian East Jerusalem ISRAEL-US RELATIONS: DIPLOMATS AND LOBBYISTS ERAN TZIDKIYAHU Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) CHAIR: From a Cosmopolitan to a Segregated City—Jeru- TED SASSON salem’s City Centers as a Case Study Brandeis University

NATAN ARIDAN Ben-Gurion University of the Negev MC4 MANDEL G12 Diplomats and Lobbyists: Advocating for Israel: ACTUALLY EXISTING ZIONISM: IS THE From Truman to Nixon—A Reassessment STATE OF ISRAEL NOT LORD BALFOUR’S “NATIONAL HOME FOR THE JEWISH DANIEL KURTZER PEOPLE,” AFTER ALL? Princeton University CHAIR: Freedom of Expression? The Possibilities and Limits RACHEL FISH of American Advocacy Brandeis University STEVEN BAYME ELHANAN YAKIRA American Jewish Committee The Hebrew University of Jerusalem American Jewish Political Advocacy: From Balfour’s National Home to the State of Israel How Signiicant a Factor? GABRIEL BRAHM Northern Michigan University MC2 OLIN-SANG 116 Neo-Geo-Antisemitism—The Jewish National Home TRANSNATIONALISM AND NATIONALISM and Its Detractors IN ISRAELI CULTURE ASHLEY PASSMORE CHAIR: Texas A&M University OLGA GERSHENSON Post-Nationalism and Its Discontents University of Massachusetts, Amherst

~ 14 ~ GILAD HALPERN TANYA ZION-WALDOKS University of Haifa Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Self-Hating Israelis “I Believe in Change from Within”: Jewish-Orthodox Israeli Women’s Transformative “Tempered Radicalism” MC5 OLIN-SANG 101 LAND, NATURE, AND THE PALESTINIAN/ ARAB OTHER IN JEWISH CULTURE MC7 MANDEL G11 ZIONISM IN ISRAEL AND BEYOND CHAIR: ILAN TROEN CHAIR: Brandeis University GILBERT KAHN Kean University MOSTAFA HUSSEIN The Increasing Political Engagement and University of Southern California Inluence of American Orthodox Jews on Intertwined Landscape: On the Integration of Israel-Diaspora Relations Islamicate Culture in the Construction of Jewish Landscape in Palestine/Israel WILLIAM MILES Northeastern University YAEL ZERUBAVEL De Facto Zionism: “Love of Israel” and the Rutgers University “Covenant of Blood” Contested Visions of the Desert, Nature, and the Bedouins in the Contemporary Israeli LUKAS WEINBEER Tourist Discourse Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Approaching and Integrating non-Hebrew speaking ASSAF HAREL Olim—Mapai’s Mass Communication in French Rutgers University and German Building, Burning and Belonging: Religiously Motivated Settlers and the Land of Israel

LIRON SHANI MC8 OLIN-SANG 124 Brandeis University and Shai M. Dromi, Harvard BIOGRAPHY AND THE BUILDING OF University A JEWISH STATE

Nationalizing the Nature—the Israeli Space between CHAIR: Environmentalism and Landalism AVI SHILON Tsinghua University

MC6 HELLER G3 PAULA KABALO TRANSFORMING ISRAEL’S TRADITIONAL Ben-Gurion University of the Negev SOCIETIES: AN INTERSECTIONAL David Ben-Gurion’s Jerusalem Vision Post June PERSPECTIVE ON WOMEN’S STRATEGIES 1967: What Was the Plan and Why Does it Matter? OF CHANGE ARIEL COHEN

CHAIR: University of Virginia SHULAMIT REINHARZ Rights and Sovereignty in a Developing Brandeis University International Order: David Ben Gurion’s Am Yisrael in the 1920s/30s Global Landscape EBTESAM BARAKAT The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ADI ARMON “I’m the One Who Should Decide for Myself”: Da’at Hamakom Center for the Study of Cultures Druze Women’s Struggle to Get an Education of Place in the Modern Jewish World, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem SAFA ABU-RABIA Benzion Netanyahu—The Formative Years Harvard University The Negev’s Struggle Over Land: Bedouin Women from the 1948 Generation—Resistance from within Patriarchal Spaces

~ 15 ~ MC9 HELLER 163 NAOMI SOKOLOFF WRITING ISRAELI HISTORY University of Washington

CHAIR: Have We Got a Prayer? The Crisis in the Humanities, AVIVA HALAMISH Hebrew Poetry, and World Literature The Open University of Israel SHIRA KLEIN SHAY HAZKANI Chapman University University of Maryland, College Park Using Wikipedia in the Israel Studies Classroom The Israeli Postal Censorship: A new Source for Writing History from Below of Israel/Palestine WELCOME RECEPTION ESTHER CARMEL-HAKIM University of Haifa USDAN STUDENT CENTER COURTYARD From a Pension in Safed to the Dan Hotel Chain: 15:45-16:30 Entrepreneur Kaete Dan

YITZHAK CONFORTI GREETINGS: Bar-Ilan University DAVID ELLENSON Utopia and History in the Zionist Movement Brandeis University

ILAN TROEN MC10 HELLER G4 President, AIS OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ISRAELI POLITICS AND SOCIETY: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: AWARDS CEREMONY PANEL 2: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS USDAN STUDENT CENTER, LEVIN BALLROOM CHAIR: 16:45-17:30 CSABA NIKOLENYI Concordia University AIS-ISRAEL INSTITUTE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT CHEN FRIEDBERG AWARD Ariel University and Reuven Hazan, The Hebrew Alan Dowty University of Jerusalem University of Notre Dame The Legislative Branch in Israel Pnina Lahav MENACHEM HOFNUNG, The Hebrew University Boston University of Jerusalem and MOHAMMED WATTAD, Zefat Academic College ANNUAL SHAPIRO AWARD FOR BEST BOOK IN The Judicial Branch in Israel ISRAEL STUDIES 2016 AS’AD GHANEM Abigail Jacobson University of Haifa The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Arab Political Institutions in Israel Moshe Naor YORAM PERI University of Haifa University of Maryland Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs The Military in Israeli Politics in Mandatory Palestine (Schusterman Series in Isra- el Studies/Brandeis University Press).

MC11 MANDEL G10 ANNUAL BEN HALPERN AWARD FOR BEST HOW TO TEACH ISRAEL STUDIES IN AN DISSERTATION IN ISRAEL STUDIES 2016 AGE OF SHRINKING ENROLLMENT IN THE Irit Katz HUMANITIES Girton College, University of Cambridge CHAIR: “The Common Camp: Temporary Settlements as a DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE Spatio-political Instrument in Israel-Palestine.” Smith College Judah Troen The Hebrew University of Jerusalem “This is What is Done Abroad: Model Others and the Construction of National Identity in the Parliamen- tary Discourse of Israel.”

~ 16 ~ ANNUAL BARUCH KIMMERLING PRIZE FOR DAVID BARAK-GORODETSKY BEST GRADUATE PAPER PRESENTED AT 2016 University of Haifa ANNUAL MEETING Reform Judaism in the Eyes of the Israeli Geoffrey Levin Establishment: an Historical Exploration New York University TANYA ZION-WALDOKS “Enlightening a Stained Democracy: The American Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Jewish Committee and Israel’s Palestinian Arab Israel’s Rabbinic Courts vs. Religious Women Activ- Minority, 1949-1966.” ists—Who Represents Israel’s True Defense Force?

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: REFLECTIONS ON OFIR ABU THE BALFOUR DECLARATION Ben-Gurion University of the Negev USDAN STUDENT CENTER, LEVIN BALLROOM Religious Pluralism, National Identity, and the State: 17:30-18:15 The Case of Non-Orthodox Judaism in Israel

WELCOME: TA2 MANDEL G10 POPULAR CULTURE AND THE FATE OF RON LIEBOWITZ ETHNICITY IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL President, Brandeis University CHAIR: ANDRÉ LEVY KEYNOTE CONVERSATION: Brandeis University LEON WIESELTIER URI DORCHIN Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy, Zefat Academic College Brookings Institution Mizrahi Rap: Signifying Orientalism Anew MODERATOR: ILAN TROEN GABRIELLA DJERRAHIAN President, AIS Université du Québec a Montréal A New Blueprint for Blackness: Ethiopian Israelis and the Consumption of Popular Music BANQUET (PAYMENT REQUIRED) HASSENFELD CONFERENCE CENTER, SHERMAN HALL ADANE ZAWDU University of Connecticut 18:30-20:00 NE 13, 2017 The Popularization of the Siqd Holiday in Israel: A View from Below on Making Ethnicity

ASAF LEBOVITZ TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2017 Ariel University Spiritual Traditionalism Among Israeli Celebs as REGISTRATION OPEN Post-Secular Discourse of Citizenship MANDEL CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES ATRIUM

8:00-16:00 TA3 OLIN-SANG 124 MATERIALITY AND THE TIME OF THE SESSION A PRESENT IN ISRAELI CULTURE 9:00-10:30 CHAIR: SARA HOROWITZ York University

TA1 HELLER G3 ORIT ROZIN CHALLENGING ISRAEL’S ORTHODOX Tel Aviv University HEGEMONY: CONTESTED VISIONS OF Confronting Fear and Enriching the Self and the JEWISH IDENTITY Nation: Practices and Emotions in the Aftermath of the Czech-Egyptian Arms Deal CHAIR: NATAN ARIDAN TAMAR BERGER Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Suburban Realities: The Israeli Case

~ 17 ~ YAEL MUNK MENACHEM KLEIN Open University of Israel Bar-Ilan University The Catastrophic Horizon: Dead-End Israeli Cinema From Army Occupation to Annexed City, Methods in the Materialistic New Millennium Israel Used to Annex Jordanian Jerusalem

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Ohio State University TA6 OLIN-SANG 104 Peace as Vanishing Mediator: Towards a Marxist EDUCATION: IT’S COMPLICATED History of Zionism and Israel CHAIR: MATTHEW BOXER TA4 OLIN-SANG 112 Brandeis University BALFOUR AND STATE-BUILDING: A DAVID BRYFMAN CENTURY OF ZIONISM IN INTERNATIONAL The Jewish Education Project PERSPECTIVE Jewish Generation Z and Israel: It’s Complicated CHAIR: and Conlicted JONATHAN ADELMAN HANNAH KOBER University of Denver Brandeis University JEFF WEINTRAUB The Motivations and Experiences of Jewish Bryn Mawr College Students of Arabic at Israeli Universities From 1923 to 1948 and Beyond: The Dynamics of NIR RESSISSI Modern Nationalism and Post-Imperial “Exchange Oranim College of Education of Populations” as a Context for Understanding the Does Outsourcing Zionist Education Indicate a Neo- Histories of Israel and Zionism Zionist Vision? ASAF ROMIROWSKY ILAN FUCHS Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Brandeis University The Anomaly of the Arab Palestinian Refugees Women’s Education in the Haredi Leumi ANNA GEIFMAN Community: A Curriculum for the Creation of a Stay Bar-Ilan University at Home Revolutionary Extremists as State-Builders: The Bolsheviks, Hamas, ISIS… and the Zionists? TA7 HELLER 163 VISIONS FOR A JEWISH STATE

TA5 MANDEL G12 CHAIR: CONTESTED DIVISION, DISPUTED NAHUM KARLINSKY UNIFICATION – JERUSALEM: EAST AND Ben-Gurion University of the Negev WEST LIOR LAVID CHAIR AND DISCUSSANTS: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ITAMAR RADAI Between “Altneuland” and Mini Israel Tel Aviv University AVI SHILON CO-CHAIR: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev NOAH RUBIN More than Poetry and Music: Spiritual’s Place in University of Michigan Jabotinsky’s Later View of Nationalism Planning Jerusalem, 1948-1968 MOSHE BERENT REUVEN GAFNI Open University of Israel Kinneret College Did Zionism Aspire for a State? From Neighborhoods to Borders: Jurat El-Anab, Shamm’a, and the Early Creation of Divided ROMAN VATER Jerusalem in the British Mandate Period University of Oxford Fighting for a Civic Nation: The “I am an Israeli” Organization as a post-Zionist/post-“Canaanite” Phenomenon

~ 18 ~ TA8 OLIN-SANG 116 AS’AD GHANEM ISRAELI POLITICS University of Haifa

CHAIR: Restoring Faith—The Politics of Empowerment PNINA LAHAV Among the Palestinians in Israel after Oslo Boston University SHAHBARI ILHAM CSABA NIKOLENYI University of Bradford Concordia University Internationalization of the National Aspirations Defectors in the Knesset: What Explains Exit and of the Arab Minority in Israel Loyalty? ELIE REKHESS MARK TESSLER and ALON YAKTER Northwestern University University of Michigan Sami Michael’s Hasut and the Political History of The Dealignment of the Israeli Political the Arabs in Israel Party System

RUVI ZIEGLER TA11 MANDEL G3 University of Reading OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ISRAELI POLITICS Permanent Transience: Israel’s AND SOCIETY: (Non)immigration Policy PANEL 3: ISRAEL, THE WORLD AND DIASPORA RELATIONS HADARA BAR-MOR, Netanya Academic College, Lilach Littor, The Open University of Israel, and Gila CHAIR: Menachem, Tel Aviv University ILAN TROEN Courts and Social Rights within Liberal Brandeis University Constitutions: The Organic and Functional SERGIO DELLAPERGOLA Approaches to Judicial Review in the Age of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Privatization and Contracting Out Demographic History of Israel

MIRA SUCHAROV TA9 MANDEL G11 Carleton University EDUCATING ISRAELIS Israel and the Jewish Diaspora

CHAIR: KEN STEIN TALI TADMOR- SHIMONY Emory University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Israel and the United States AMIRA ERAN OREN BARAK Levinsky College of Education The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Parent-Children and School Relations in Communal Israel’s Policies in the West Bank and Gaza Education – A Century after the Balfour Declaration

LAURA WISEMAN York University TA12 HELLER G4 Growing Up: The Phantasm of Israeli Childhood FORMATION OF ISRAELINESS CHAIR: HANIT BENGLAS KAUFMAN MOSHE NAOR Tel Aviv University University of Haifa Models of the Secular Pluralistic Beit Midrash In Israel: Innovative Methods of Teaching ASSAF SELZER University of Haifa The Inauguration Ceremony of the Hebrew TA10 OLIN-SANG 101 University in Jerusalem—Was it an Academic Event PALESTINIAN ARABS IN ISRAELI SOCIETY or a National One?

CHAIR: BEN HERZOG DANA BLANDER Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Israel Democracy Institute Public Attitudes toward the Israeli Citizenship Is There a Place for the ‘Other’ in the “National Law (1952) Home for the Jewish People”?

~ 19 ~ MARTIN LASKIN SAFA ABU-RABIA, Harvard University and Avinoam Southern Connecticut State University Meir, Ben Gurion University The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Labor Zionism Involvement of Nakba’s Third Generation Bedouin Women in the Land Conlict in the Naqab\Negev: MILI LEITNER Between State Dispossession and Social Patriarchy. University of Chicago Separate But Equal? The Palestine Broadcasting NOHAD ‘ALI Service and the Racialization of Zionism in Western Galilee College and University of Haifa Mandatory Palestine Being a Muslim in an Ethnic Jewish State: Culture, Identity and Minority Status Internalization COFFEE BREAK 10:30-11:00 TC2 HELLER 163 ISRAELI CINEMA

PLENARY SESSION I: 50 YEARS SINCE ‘67 CHAIR: USDAN STUDENT CENTER, LEVIN BALLROOM DINA ROGINSKY 11:00-12:30 Yale University

OREN BARAK, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem MODERATOR: and DAPHNE INBAR, The Hebrew University of DAVID ELLENSON Jerusalem Brandeis University “Revenge of the Jobniks”: Daily Resistance of Soldiers As Represented in Contemporary Israeli ANITA SHAPIRA Cinema Tel Aviv University NAVA DUSHI HUSSEIN IBISH Lynn University Arab Gulf States Institute Hanging by a Thread: Israeli Cinema in the DAN KURTZER International Arena Princeton University UTA LARKEY HUSAM ZOMLOT Goucher College Chief Representative of the Palestinian General Del- The Brichah (1945-49) in History and Film egation to the United States TONY SHAW, University of Hertfordshire and GIORA GOODMAN, Kinneret College GENERAL ASSEMBLY (BOX LUNCH PROVIDED TO FIRST 100 ATTENDEES) Star Power: Kirk Douglas, Hollywood and Israel OLIN-SANG 101

12:45-13:45 TC3 MANDEL G12 DEFINING THE TENT: PERSPECTIVES ON SESSION C SUPPORT OF, ENGAGEMENT WITH, AND CONNECTION TO ISRAEL 14:00-15:30 CHAIR: SARAH ANNE MINKIN TC1 HELLER G3 Just Vision ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN ARIELA KEYSAR, Trinity College and SERGIO ISRAEL DELLAPERGOLA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem CHAIR: Are We All One Happy Family? American and AZIZA KHAZZOOM Israeli Jews Indiana University RACHEL FISH HAVATZELET YAHEL Brandeis University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev The Politics of the Israel Discourse within the Land Privatization in the Negev: Tribes, Sheikhs and Academy Administration in the 19th and 20th Century

~ 20 ~ JANET KRASNER ARONSON AND MATTHEW TC6 OLIN-SANG 104 BROOKNER INFLUENCE OF RELIGION IN Brandeis University ISRAELI SOCIETY Who Supports AIPAC and J Street? A Community CHAIR: Divided JOSEPH RINGEL MATTHEW BOXER AND DAVID MANCHESTER Northwestern University Brandeis University MOTTI INBARI Use, Misuse, and Missing: Survey Data in Jewish The University of North Carolina, Pembroke Communal Discourse on the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Uzi Meshulam’s “Mishkan Ohalim” Afair and the Inluence of Radical Ultra-Orthodox Ideology

TC4 OLIN-SANG 116 TEHILA KALAGY PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AND Ben-Gurion University of the Negev PERSONALITIES From Defensive Conservatism to a Conservatism of Adaptation: Acculturation Strategies of ultra- CHAIR: Orthodox Academics in the Workplace SONJA WENTLING Concordia College HEATHER MUNRO RAPHAEL COHEN ALMAGOR Durham University University of Hull Examining the Notions of Secular and Religious Through the Case of Hasidic Women in Jerusalem Arafat, Barak and Clinton at Camp David: Clashes of Characters and Conduct

LIOR LEHRS TC7 MANDEL G3 New York University ISRAELI FOREIGN POLICY IN Unoicial Israeli Diplomats in the Israeli-Arab THE TRUMP ERA Conlict—A Historical Perspective CHAIR: ZACHARY SMITH ROBERT FREEDMAN University of Pennsylvania Johns Hopkins University Electoral System Change in the Middle East: Threat ILAN PELEG and Elite Action Across Regime Type Lafayette College BARIS KESGIN The Impact of Trump’s Policy on Israeli Politics Elon University YAEL ARONOFF Tracing Shimon Peres’ Leadership Traits Michigan State University The Policy of the Trump Administration toward Israel TC5 OLIN-SANG 112 FIELD RESEARCH AND THE DEVELOPMENT STEVEN DAVID OF ISRAEL STUDIES CURRICULA ON John Hopkins University NORTH AMERICAN CAMPUSES Israel and the Iran Nuclear Agreement—Two Years Later CHAIR: ANNETTE KOREN

Brandeis University TC8 MANDEL G11 JULIA LIEBERMAN ISRAELI ETHNICITIES REVISITED

Saint Louis University CHAIR: A “College Town” Embroiled in Ethnic Turmoil: Field URI RAM Observations in Jerusalem 2015-2016 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

CSABA NIKOLENYI LIHI YONA Concordia University Columbia University Field Immersion and the Teaching of Israeli Politics The Man of Honor Killings: The Racialized Space between Honor and Dignity GABRIEL NOAH BRAHM Northern Michigan University Don’t Boycott this Class

~ 21 ~ ORNA SASSON-LEVY and Nissim Leon, TC11 OLIN-SANG 124 Bar-Ilan University IMAGINING PALESTINE: ZIONISTS’ Hishtaknezut: Passing as White or Class Mobility POLITICAL IMAGINATION, 1917-1947

GILLY HARTAL CHAIR AND DISCUSSANT: McGill University YAEL ZERUBAVEL Inventing Gay Utopia: Gay Tourism to Tel Aviv and Rutgers University Israeli Ethnicities ALON CONFINO University of Virginia and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev TC9 MANDEL G10 What Would Palestine Look Like? Zionists Imagine GENDER AND ISRAELI SOCIETY Palestine on the Night of November 29, 1947

CHAIR: DIMITRY SHUMSKY SHULAMIT REINHARZ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Brandeis University From Recognition to Denial: The Palestinian Arabs ORLY BENJAMIN in Ben-Gurion’s Political Imagination in the British Bar-Ilan University Mandate Period Gender and Government Procurement in Israel: How Do Privatization Contracts Promote Gender Inequality? TC12 HELLER G4 SPIES, SEX AND SABICH: ISRAELI DIKLA BAR ORIAN TELEVISION IN THE AGE OF NETFLIX Bar-Ilan University CHAIR: Shaping of the Settler—Women in the First Wave of SARA HOROWITZ Settlements, 1967-1977 York University LILACH ROSENBERG-FRIEDMAN RACHEL S. HARRIS Bar-Ilan University University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Captivity and Gender: Female Prisoners of Israel’s The Oice of Gender and Age Diversity: Mossad 101 War of Independence as a Case Study MARTIN SHICHTMAN Eastern Michigan University TC10 OLIN-SANG 101 Violence and the Death of the Family in Fauda REVISITING BALFOUR SHAYNA WEISS CHAIR: United States Naval Academy GERSHON SHAFIR Srugim University of California, San Diego A Century of Balfour Declarations COFFEE BREAK YEHUDAH MIRSKY 15:30-16:00 Brandeis University State, Community & Nation on the Anvil of Political Theology PLENARY SESSION II: ROLE OF NGO’S INSIDE/OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL MARIA G. NAVARRO USDAN STUDENT CENTER, LEVIN BALLROOM Universidad de Salamanca 16:00-17:30 Preventive vs. Proactive Policies: An Interpretation of Balfour Declaration’s Political Vision

AVITAL GINAT MODERATOR: Tel Aviv University RACHEL FISH Shifting Loyalties: The Balfour Declaration and the Brandeis University Transition towards British Orientation During and PETER BEINART After First World War City University of New York

ALISA DOCTOROFF Past President, UJA-Federation of New York

~ 22 ~ GERALD STEINBERG WA2 OLIN-SANG 101 Bar-Ilan University ROUNDTABLE: BETWEEN THE RULE OF LAW AND STATES OF EMERGENCY: THE WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION FLUID JURISPRUDENCE OF THE ISRAELI REGIME HOSTED BY SCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST (SPME) CHAIR: NITZAN LEBOVIC OPEN TO ALL CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS Lehigh University USDAN STUDENT CENTER COURTYARD IAN LUSTICK 17:30-18:30 University of Pennsylvania

ILAN PELEG FILM SCREENING Lafayette College SHAPIRO CAMPUS CENTER THEATER YOAV MEHOZAY BEN-GURION, EPILOGUE University of Haifa Director: Yariv Mozer. Israel/France/Germany, 2016. Running time: 70 minutes. English & Hebrew with English subtitles. Distributor: Go2Films. Presented WA3 HELLER G4 in partnership with The National Center for Jewish ISRAEL AND ARMED NON-STATE ACTORS: Film. A SHIFTING STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT

20:00-21:30 CHAIR: PETER KRAUSE Boston College WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2017 Victory Hanging in the Balance: Why Zionist Armed Groups Competed, Fought and Won

REGISTRATION OPEN BOAZ ATZILI American University MANDEL CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES ATRIUM Israel’s Triadic Coercion: Persistence and Changes 8:30-12:45 EHUD EIRAN University of Haifa SESSION A What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Military 9:00-10:30 Adaptation? Israel in South Lebanon, 1985-2000 DANIEL SOBELMAN Harvard University WA1 OLIN-SANG 124 A Comparative Look at Israel’s Conlicts with ISRAELI CULTURE Hezbollah and Hamas Over the Past Decade CHAIR: OREN BARAK ARIEH SAPOSNIK The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Defending Ourselves Against the Wild Beasts: A JEROME CHANES Defensive Turn in Israel’s Ofensive Military Strategy CUNY Graduate Center The Play’s the Thing: ha-Bimah and the Cameri— Israeli Society through the Lens of Theater WA4 MANDEL G3 ISRAEL AND ASIA ALEC MISHORY Independant Scholar CHAIR: “There were Shepherds Abiding in the Field”: YORAM PERI Origins of Israeli Folk Dance Costumes University of Maryland

NINA SPIEGEL MERON MEDZINI Portland State University Hebrew University of Jerusalem U.S.-Israel Relations: Israeli Cultural Development in The Reaction of the Asian Nations to the Balfour the Early Years of the State Declaration

~ 23 ~ JAMES (JIM) NORWINE, Texas A&M University, WA7 MANDEL G10 PINHAS ALPERT, Tel Aviv University, MICHAEL INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE ON THE JENNINGS, University of Idaho and BRENT JEWISH STATE HEDQUIST, Texas A&M University - Kingsville CHAIR: Southwest Asia’s Ominous Climate Future: The End EVA GUREVICH of an Ancient Heart(h)land? Brandeis University MING HUI PAN Eliezer Livneh: The Israeli Translator and Adapter of Concordia University American Neo-Conservative Political Thought in the A Century of Zionism in China: The Harbin Jewish 1970s Community since 1917 ANJA SCHMIDT-KLEINERT University of Bielefeld Inclusion through Exclusion: Young Russians in the WA5 HELLER G3 Yisra’el Beitenu Party Actively Construct a Sense of ISRAEL AND THE UN Belonging CHAIR: KHINVRAJ JANGID PAUL SCHAM Jindal Global University University of Maryland Indian National Movement and Zionism: In the Light ELAD BEN-DROR of Balfour Declaration Bar-Ilan University Arab Support for the UN Plan to Internationalize Jerusalem and its Decisive Weight in the Passage WA8 OLIN-SANG 112 of the 1949 Resolution to Do So PERCEPTIONS OF ISRAEL

KATHERINE HARBORD CHAIR: Liverpool John Moores University SARA AIROLDI “Um Shmum”? The Role of the UN in the State University of Milan Perpetration of Palestinian Refugee Status Home, Nation, State? Political Wording and the Meaning of Jewish Nationhood in Italy (1917-1938)

WA6 OLIN-SANG 104 JONATHAN GROSSMAN ISRAELI FOREIGN RELATIONS The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israeli and Jewish Proposals to Resettle Palestinian CHAIR: Refugees in the Wake of the Six-Day War: The Case BERKAY GULEN of Brazil University of Washington Institutional Change in the Middle East: Turkish FELICIA WALDMAN Foreign Policy towards Israel between 2002 University of Bucharest and 2014 Israel and the Israeli-Arab Conlict in the Eyes of Romanian Communists (1948-1975) ALFRED TOVIAS The Hebrew University of Jerusalem MARWA MAZIAD Israel and Spain: Are They Rival or Complementary University of Washington Countries? “The Territories”: Ambiguities and (dis)Continuities in Israel’s Civil-Military Relations MICHEL GHERMAN Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Peripheral Zionism: Ambiguities of History of WA9 HELLER 163 Zionism in Brazil (1900-1930) INFLUENCE OF WOMEN ON STATE FORMATION

CHAIR: 0 LILACH ROSENBERG-FRIEDMAN Bar-Ilan University

MEIR CHAZAN Tel Aviv University Women Defense Service in the Palmach, 1942-1945s

~ 24 ~ TALI TADMOR-SHIMONY, Ben-Gurion University of WA12 OLIN-SANG 116 the Negev and NIRIT RAICHEL, Kinneret College ROUNDTABLE: THE CULT OF THE Gender, Professional Identity, and Familial Life in OCCUPATION the Yishuv Area: The Married Women Teachers, CHAIR: 1880’s-1930 RICHARD LANDES MIRA YUNGMAN Bar-Ilan University The Open University of Israel JOSHUA MURAVCHIK The Leading Women’s Zionist Organizations in the Institute of World Politics US, 1912-1948: Identities, Vision and Ideologies—A Comparison GILEAD INI CAMERA SAM LEHMAN-WILZIG and GILAD GREENWALD, Bar-Ilan University KENNETH LEVIN Harvard University Medical School From Collectivity to Personalization: The Historical Retrogression of Female Politicians’ Media Image in ELHANAN YAKIRA Israeli Newspapers The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

COFFEE BREAK WA10 MANDEL G12 SOCIETAL CHALLENGES IN ISRAEL 10:30-10:45

CHAIR: NAHUM KARLINSKY SESSION B Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 10:45-12:15 OZ FRANKEL New School for Social Research Consumer Modernity, Citizenship, and the Everyday WB1 OLIN-SANG 124 in 1960s Israel TWO DECADES PLUS SINCE “FOREIGNERS DESERVE RIGHTS?”: WHAT RIGHTS RAFI GROSGLIK DO THEY DESERVE AND WHAT ARE Brandeis University COMMON THEMES BETWEEN ISRAEL AND Neoliberal-Environmentalism in Israeli Legislation: The GERMANY? Case of the Law for Regulation of Organic Produce CHAIR AND DISCUSSANT: DIVYA MALHOTRA GALIA SABAR Jawaharlal Nehru University Ruppin College and Tel Aviv University The Health Gap: Understanding Access to Healthcare in Israel HADAS COHEN The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Case 1: Israel WA11 MANDEL G11 DANI KRANZ ETHIOPIANS IN ISRAEL Bergische University Wuppertal CHAIR: Case 2: Germany SHARON SHALOM ODED ORON Brandeis University University of Washington Between Subjective Identity and Objective Identify— A Case Study of Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel Let My People Stay: Seeking Asylum in the Jewish State ALON BURSTEIN, The Hebrew University of Jerusa- lem and LIORA NORWICH, Brandeis University From a Whisper to a Scream: The Politicization of the Ethiopian Community in Israel

SOLOMON GETAHUN Central Michigan University The Beta-Israel Migration and Israel’s Continued Predicament

~ 25 ~ WB2 OLIN-SANG 101 MARK RAIDER ROUNDTABLE: INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGICAL University of Cincinnati APPROACHES TO TEACHING FILM IN Stephen S. Wise and the Balfour Declaration ISRAEL STUDIES WALKER ROBINS CHAIR: University of Oklahoma RACHEL HARRIS The Inluence of Judah Magnes on American University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Liberal Protestant Interpretations of the Balfour OLGA GERSHENSON Declaration University of Massachusetts, Amherst IDF on Screens: New Genres, New Values WB5 MANDEL G11 ASSAF HAREL GHETTOS, CAMPS AND IMMIGRATION TO Rutgers University ISRAEL

Teaching about Post-1967 Settlers through Film CHAIR: DAVID STARR AVINOAM PATT Brandeis University University of Hartford The History of Zionism and Israel Through Short Ghetto in Flames: Zionists, Bundists and the Educational Documentary Videos Meaning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

OREN KROLL-ZELDIN LIOR YOHANANI University of San Francisco Rutgers University Teaching Palestine in Israel Studies Through Pales- Internment Camps in Palestine: British Staf, Jewish tinian Film Guards, German Internees BENNY NURIELY Emek Israel College and Sapir Collage WB3 MANDEL G10 Experts, Camps and Immigration to Israel—The POLITICAL USAGES OF HOLOCAUST Joint and the OSE in South France 1947-1951 MEMORY IN ISRAEL

CHAIR: ELKHANAN YAKIRA WB6 HELLER G3 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem PERSPECTIVES OF ORTHODOXY IN ISRAEL

AYALA PAZ CHAIR: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev MOTTI INBARI The “Eichmann Controversy” in Israel: Reading of The University of North Carolina, Pembroke Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem through RAPHAEL COHEN ALMAGOR the Lens of The Origins of Totalitarianism University of Hull LIRAZ YAFFE The Monopoly of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel and its Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Efects on the Governance of Religious Diversity Motherhood as Resistance?: Representations of SARA LEVINGER Mothers in the Holocaust during the 50’s in Israeli’s University of Haifa Newspapers Women’s Rights and Gender -Theologians Challenges in Jewish and Democratic State

WB4 MANDEL G3 MEIR SEIDLER AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE Ariel University BALFOUR DECLARATION Rabbi Joseph Carlebach’s (1883-1942) non-Zionist Zionism CHAIR: DAVID ELLENSON JOSEPH RINGEL Brandeis University Northwestern University JUDAH BERNSTEIN Counter-Culture within a Counter-Culture: Religious New York University Humanist Education and Thought in the Gush Emunim Movement From the Balfour Declaration to Cleveland: The 1921 ZOA Convention Reconsidered

~ 26 ~ WB7 HELLER 163 BEN MOLLOV, Bar-Ilan University and CHAIM ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN RELATIONS LAVIE, Bar-Ilan University

CHAIR: The Impact of Israeli-Palestinian Inter-religious AS’AD GHANEM Dialogue: Theoretical and Empirical Perspective University of Haifa ELIEZER DON-YEHIYA OMRI SHAFER RAVIV Bar-Ilan University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Power-Sharing Model and Israel’s Arab Minority

Rekindling the Dilemma of Arab Labor in the New RAMI ZEEDAN Borders of the Jewish State, 1967- 1973 The Open University of Israel YEHUDA (UDI) BLANGA The Arab-Palestinian Minority in Israel: The Bar-Ilan University Municipalities’ Crisis

“The Logic of the Defeated”: The Attempts to Reach DANA GOLD an Agreement between Israel and Egypt in 1971 University of Western Ontario SHEILA KATZ Is Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians Viable? Berklee College of Music Analyzing Theories of Peace in International Relations A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence

ROCCO GIANSANTE WB10 OLIN-SANG 104 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem SIX DAY WAR IN RETROSPECTIVE: 50 Erasing Borders: The Ottoman Dream of Avi YEARS LATER Mograbi. CHAIR: EHUD EIRAN University of Haifa WB8 MANDEL G12 ISRAELI GEOGRAPHY AND DEVELOPMENT NIMROD HAGILADI

CHAIR: IDF Command and Staf College YAEL ZERUBAVEL Six Day War or the Seven Years War? Rutgers University OMRI ADOMI AVI PICARD IDF Command and Staf College and The Hebrew Bar-Ilan University University of Jerusalem Desert Development Towns and the Central The German Inluence on the Israeli ‘Blitzkrieg’ in 1967 Place Theory YAGIL HENKIN MOTI GIGI IDF Command and Staf College Sapir Academic College Learning to Win, Learning to Lose: The IDF, the Urban Kibbutz and Developmen-Town—the Story of Egyptian Army, and the Lesson-l: Learning Process Migvan and Sderot before the Six-Day War

TAMAR HERMANN The Open University of Israel WB11 OLIN-SANG 112 Walking the Israel National Trail (INT): Political, ISRAEL ON THE WORLD STAGE Sociological and Cultural Aspects CHAIR: SHAY RABINEAU ROHEE DASGUPTA State University of New York, Binghamton O.P. Jindal Global University Ancient Trails, Modern Hikers: Israeli Waymarking in ADRIAN KRUPNIK the Sinai Peninsula Tel Aviv University Between Two Homelands: Jewish-Argentines’ Return Migration from Israel, 1960-2005 WB9 HELLER G4 PALESTINIAN ISRAELI CITIZENS AND RÁCHEL SURANYI POLITICAL AWARENESS Eötvös Loránd University and University of Haifa

CHAIR: “I Stepped out from a 3.5 Year Long Relationship SAFA ABU-RABIA by Getting on the Plane.” Ethnic Returnees or Harvard University Migrants? The Relationship between the Hungarian Jewry and Israel

~ 27 ~ RENEN YEZERSKY PAUL SCHAM, University of Maryland and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev THAIR ABU-RAS, University of Maryland The Privatized Arena of Jewish Conversion and The Joint List After Two Years: Expression of a New Immigration from Mestizo-America Discourse Among Israeli Palestinians?

MARCELA ZOUFALA IRIT KATZ Charles University University of Cambridge Meaning of Israel in Contemporary Reality and Toward a New Genealogy of the Camp in Imagination of Central European Jews: Case of the Israel-Palestine Czech Republic

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CHAIR: SESSION C RICHARD LANDES 12:45-14:00 Bar-Ilan University CHARLES JACOBS Americans for Peace and Tolerance WC1 OLIN-SANG 101 ANTI-ZIONISM(S) IN AMERICA: CARY NELSON DEFINITIONS AND HISTORICAL University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign EVOLUTIONS ANDREW PESSIN CHAIR: Connecticut College GEOFFREY LEVIN JEFFREY HERF New York University University of Maryland Israelis, Arabs, and the Palestinianization of Ameri- can Jewish Anti-Zionism JIM WALD Hampshire College NOAM PIANKO University of Washington LUCIEN OULAHBIB “Israel Guidelines” and the Shifting Deinition of Membre du CLESID, Laboratory of University Jean American “Zionism” and “Anti-Zionism” Moulin Lyon 3

AMY WEISS

College of Saint Elizabeth WC4 OLIN-SANG 104 American Anti-Zionism: When Does Criticism of a ZIONIST IMAGININGS AFTER BALFOUR Jewish State Become a Form of Antisemitism? CHAIR: HASIA DINER KATHERINE HARBORD New York University Liverpool John Moores University Julius Rosenwald’s Rejection of Zionism STEVEN FINE Yeshiva University

WC2 MANDEL G11 “The Jews Survive it!”: The Arch of Titus in Zionist POLITICAL POSSIBILITIES: ISRAELIS AND Imagination and Ritual: 1882-1947 PALESTINIANS LINDSAY KATZIR

CHAIR: Louisiana State University GANNIT ANKORI Rainbows Built of Bitter Tears: Anglo-Jewish Brandeis University Zionism Before the Balfour Declaration

SUNIL KUMAR ELIRAN ZERED Jawaharlal Nehru University Bar-Ilan University The Role of Israel’s Labour Party on Palestinian Deus ex Machina: The Metaphors Underlying Ze’ev Question Since 1967-1993 Jabotinsky’s Conception of the Jewish Nation

~ 28 ~ WC5 MANDEL G10 ASAF LEBOVITZ ISRAEL AND NATURAL RESOURCES The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and

CHAIR: Ariel University LIRON SHANI Jew-Age Among Israeli Celebrities: Jewish Brandeis University Spirituality as Discourse of Citizenship

YORAM COHEN EPHRAIM TABORY and RACHELLY ASHWALL, University of California, Los Angeles Bar-Ilan University The Regional Inluence of Israel’s Water and Energy Like a Bridge Over Troubled Waters: The Impact of Resources Joint Mediation and Study Programs on Secular- Haredi Relations GABRIEL MITCHELL Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Israel’s Pursuit of Regional Energy Partners: A WC8 HELLER G4 Historical Review ISRAEL-CHINA RELATIONS

JEFFREY SOSLAND CHAIR: American University GANGZHENG SHE Israel’s Blue Revolution: The Road to Middle East Brandeis University Water Tech Interdependence PINGAN LIANG Shanghai International Studies University, China

WC6 MANDEL G12 Diaspora Jews in China and Their Contributions to HEBREW LITERATURE Zionism and the State of Israel

CHAIR: YANG YANG PHILIP HOLLANDER Shanghai International University University of Wisconsin-Madison The Development of Hebrew Teaching and Israel Not the Mythological Sabra – Reexamining Hanoch Studies in China Bartov’s Fiction GUANGMENG CHEN MENNA ABUKHADRA Brandeis University Cairo University Who’s Making Israel’s China Policy? From the The Image of Women in Modern Hebrew Feminist Perspective of Structural Analysis Poetry: A Century of Evolution MENG YANG MIRIAM NEIGER Peking University and Free University of Berlin The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Other Side of the Israeli Innovation Myth—From “The Sinai is Boiling”: Avigdor Hameiri and the the Sino-Israeli Perspective Balfour Declaration

AYELET GIL-RONEN WC9 HELLER G3 Tel Aviv University JERUSALEM: A MICROCOSM The Universal vs. the Local: Lea Goldberg’s Writings CHAIR: for Children During the Yishuv Period SHAY RABINEAU State University of New York-Binghamton

WC7 OLIN-SANG 112 OFIRA GRUWEIS-KOVALSKY RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN ISRAELI Zefat Academic College SOCIETY Between Local and National Politics: The Jerusalem

CHAIR: Municipality, 1948-1955 YEHUDAH MIRSKY MARIK SHTERN Brandeis University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ANDREA GONDOS Sharing Colonial Space?: Palestinians and Israelis in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev the French Hill Neighborhood of Jerusalem Zionism, Identity and Kabbalah: Decoding the World and Works of Isaiah Tishby

~ 29 ~ WC10 HELLER 163 TAMAR HESS BETWEEN TEL AVIV AND JAFFA The Hebrew University of Jersualem

CHAIR: Jealousy and Revenge in Yuval Shimoni’s The Salt Line MENAHEM KLEIN Bar-Ilan University WD3 OLIN-SANG 116 ARNON GOLAN IMAGINING ZION University of Haifa Reconsidering Urbicide: The Case of Jafa/Tel Aviv CHAIR: LUNA GOLDBERG TAMIR GOREN School of the Art Institute of Chicago Bar-Ilan University The Emergence of the Swiss Roof in the Holy Land: The Jewish Neighborhoods of Jafa and the Politicized Readings of Gal Weinstein’s Roof at the Question of Annexation to Tel Aviv 1940-1944 25th International Biennial of Sao Paulo

DINA ROGINSKY SESSION D Yale University 14:15-15:45 Man and Nature in Kibbutz Ceremonies: Biblical, Palestinian and German inluences

MARC VOLOVICI WD1 MANDEL G10 Princeton University TEACHING AND ISRAEL STUDIES What was “Kongressdeutsch”? On Language CHAIR: Problems in the Zionist Congress LIRON SHANI Brandeis University

PNINA ABIR-AM WD4 OLIN-SANG 124 Brandeis University THE HOLOCAUST IN ISRAELI SOCIETY Glocal Science, Science Teaching & Israel Studies as CHAIR: Inspired by Anniversaries of the Balfour Declaration ZBYNĚK TARANT University of West Bohemia in Pilsen IGAL GALILI “No Borders, No Guarantees”—The Munich The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Conference as a Threat to Balfour Declaration Upgrading Disciplinary Education to Discipline- and the Roots of ’Munich Trauma’ in the Zionist Cultural One Discourse MIRIAM SHENKAR LEA GANOR Ohio State University Bar-Ilan University Experiential Learning at the Centennial of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Holocaust: Balfour Declaration What Role Did the Holocaust Play in Educating Israeli Soldiers since the First Palestinian Intifada (1987)? WD2 MANDEL G12 VIOLENCE AND REVENGE IN ISRAELI EYAL LEWIN LITERATURE Ariel University Israeli Concept of the Holocaust as a Relection of a CHAIR: Changing National Ethos MIKHAL DEKEL CUNY

LIOR LIBMAN WD5 OLIN-SANG 104 State University of New York, Binghamton ISRAEL AND THE WORLD

Aharon Megged’s The Buried Treasure and the CHAIR: Buried Trauma of the Zionist Left BARIS KESGIN HANNAN HEVER Elon University Yale University MICHAEL B. BISHKU Irony and Revenge in Yehuda Amichai’s Early Augusta University Writings Israel’s Relations with Anglophone West Africa

~ 30 ~ CHRISTOPHER SCHILLING WD7 MANDEL G3 University of the West of England ISRAEL AND POPULAR CULTURE

Rethinking Israel-Taiwan Relations CHAIR: NAOKI MARUYAMA LEN SAXE Meiji Gakuin University Brandeis University Japan and the Zionist Movement: From the Russo- ZOHAR RAVIV Japanese War to the Balfour Declaration and its Taglit-Birthright Israel Aftermath Birthright Israel’s Education Platform

MICHELLE SHAIN WD6 OLIN-SANG 112 Brandeis University SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ISRAELI Connection to Israel Among Young Adult U.S. Jews: SOCIETY Strength and Fragility

CHAIR: YEHONATAN ABRAMSON URI RAM Johns Hopkins University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Making a Homeland, Constructing a Diaspora: The Case of Taglit-Birthright Israel DANA ZARHIN, Tel Aviv University and University of Haifa and OFIR ABU, BEN-GURION University of the Negev The Combat Against Sex Traicking in Israel: BUS TO LOGAN AIRPORT Revisiting the Role of International Actors in Norm (SIGN-UP IN ADVANCE REQUIRED) Localization 16:00

NADIA BELKIND Tel Aviv University A Calling or Resume Building: Volunteering and Social-Involvement Processes of Students in Israeli Universities

AYA SHOSHAN Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Organizing Dissent in Israel: The Inluence of Militarist Culture on Social Protests

DORON TIMOR Tel Aviv University New Elite in the Israeli Student Movement: The Arising of the “Herut” Movement and the Right- Wing on Campuses, 1965-1977

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ABBAS, FAHIMA MB3 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem ABIR-AM, PNINA WD1 Brandeis University [email protected]

ABRAMSON, YEHONATAN WD7 Johns Hopkins University [email protected]

ABU, OFIR TA1, WD6 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

ABU RAS, THAIR WC2 University of Maryland & The Gild- [email protected] enhorn Institute for Israel Studies ABUKHADRA, MENNA WC6 Faculty of Arts - Cairo University [email protected]

ABU-RABIA, SAFA MC6, TC1 Harvard University [email protected]

ADELMAN, JONATHAN TA4: CHAIR University of Denver [email protected]

ADOMI, OMRI WB10 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem AIROLDI, SARA WA8 State University of Milan [email protected]

'ALI, NOHAD TC1 Western Galilee College and [email protected] the University of Haifa ALLEGRA, MARCO MA10 Universidade de Lisboa [email protected]

ALMAGOR, LAURA MA2 Center for Jewish History [email protected]

ANCTIL, PIERRE MB5 University of Ottawa [email protected]

ANKORI, GANNIT MB11 Brandeis University [email protected]

ARIDAN, NATAN MC1 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

ARMON, ADI MC8 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem ARONOFF, YAEL MA7, TC7 Michigan State University [email protected]

ARONSON, JANET TC3 Brandeis University [email protected]

ATZILI, BOAZ WA3 American University [email protected]

AVRAHAM, ELI MB10 University of Haifa [email protected]

BAR ORIAN , DIKLA TC9 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

BARAK, OREN TA11, TC2, WA3 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem BARAKAT, EBTESAM MC6 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem BARAK-GORODETSKY, DAVID TA1 University of Haifa [email protected]

BARD, MITCHELL MA5 American-Israeli Cooperative [email protected] Enterprise BAR-MOR, HADARA TA8 Netanya Academic College [email protected]

BAYME, STEVE MC1 American Jewish Committee [email protected]

BEINART, PETER PLENARY II City University of New York [email protected]

BELKIND, NADIA WD6 Tel Aviv University [email protected]

BENDRIHEM, REUT REINA MB10 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

BEN-DROR, ELAD WA5 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

BENGLAS KAUFMAN, HANIT TA9 Tel Aviv University [email protected] BENJAMIN, ORLY TC9 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

BERENT, MOSHE TA7 The Open University of Israel [email protected]

BERGER, TAMAR TA3 Bezalel Academy of Arts [email protected] and Design BERNSTEIN, JUDAH WB4 New York University [email protected]

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BISHKU, MICHAEL B. WD5 Augusta University [email protected]

BLANDER, DANA TA10 Israel Democracy Institute [email protected]

BLANGA, YEHUDA (UDI) WB7 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

BOKSER LIWERANT, JUDIT MA12 National University of Mexico [email protected]

BOORD, MATAN MB6 Tel Aviv University [email protected]

BOXER, MATTHEW TC3 Brandeis University [email protected]

BRAHM, GABRIEL NOAH MC4, TC5 Northern Michigan University [email protected]

BROOKNER, MATTHEW TC3 Brandeis University [email protected]

BRYFMAN, DAVID TA6 The Jewish Education Project [email protected]

BURSTEIN, ALON WA11 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem CARMEL-HAKIM, ESTHER MC9 University of Haifa [email protected]

CHANES, JEROME WA1 CUNY Graduate Center [email protected]

CHAZAN, MEIR WA9 Tel Aviv University [email protected]

CHEN, GUANGMENG WC8 Center for Israel Studies [email protected]

COHEN, ARIEL MC8 University of Virginia [email protected]

COHEN, HADAS WB1 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem COHEN, YORAM WC5 University of California, [email protected] Los Angeles COHEN ALMAGOR, RAPHAEL TC4, WB6 University of Hull [email protected]

CONFINO, ALON TC11 University of Virginia, Ben-Gurion [email protected] University of the Negev CONFORTI, YITZHAK MC9 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

CUTLER, LAURA MA7 American University [email protected]

DASGUPTA, ROHEE MB2 O.P. Jindal Global University [email protected]

DAVID, STEVEN TC7 Johns Hopkins University [email protected]

DEKEL, MIKHAL WD2: CHAIR City College of New York (CUNY) [email protected]

DELLAPERGOLA, SERGIO TA11, TC3 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem DINER, HASIA WC1 New York University [email protected]

DIVINE, DONNA MB6 & MC11: CHAIR Smith College [email protected]

DJERRAHIAN, GABRIELLA TA2 Université du Québec à Montréal [email protected]

DOCTOROFF, ALISA PLENARY II UJA-Federation of New York [email protected]

DON-YEHIYA, ELIEZER WB9 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

DORCHIN, URI TA2 Zefat Academic College [email protected]

DOWTY, ALAN MA12 University of Notre Dame [email protected]

DUBNOV, ARIE MB6 The George Washington University [email protected]

DUSHI, NAVA TC2 Lynn University [email protected]

EIRAN, EHUD WA3 University of Haifa [email protected]

ELLENSON, DAVID MB1 Brandeis University [email protected]

ELMAN, MIRIAM MA3 Syracuse University [email protected]

ERAN, AMIRA TA9 Levinsky College of Education [email protected]

ETKIN, ELIA MB6 Tel Aviv University [email protected]

FARAH, RIMA MB7 Brandeis University [email protected]

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FINE, STEVEN WC4 Yeshiva University [email protected]

FISH, RACHEL TC3, PLENARY II Brandeis University [email protected]

FOX, MOSHE MB8 Foreign Ministry of Israel [email protected]

FRANKEL, OZ WA10 New School for Social Research [email protected]

FRED, MORRIE MB5 University of Chicago [email protected]

FREEDMAN, GUY MA5 Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya [email protected]

FREEDMAN, ROBERT TC7: CHAIR Johns Hopkins University [email protected]

FRIEDBERG, CHEN MC10 Ariel University [email protected]

FUCHS, ILAN TA6 Brandeis University [email protected]

GAFNI, REUVEN TA5 Kinneret Academic College [email protected]

GALILI, IGAL WD1 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem GAN, ALON MA1 Kibbutzim College of Education, [email protected] Technology and the Arts GANOR, LEA WD4 Mashmaout Center [email protected]

GEIFMAN, ANNA TA4 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

GERSHENSON, OLGA WB2 University of Massachusetts, [email protected] Amherst GETAHUN, SOLOMON WA11 Central Michigan University [email protected]

GHANEM, AS’AD MC10, TA10 University of Haifa [email protected]

GHERMAN, MICHEL WA6 Federal University of Rio de [email protected] Janeiro GIANSANTE, ROCCO WB7 Hebrew University of Jerusalem [email protected]

GIGI, MOTI WB8 Sapir Academic College [email protected]

GIL-RONEN, AYELET WC6 Tel Aviv University [email protected]

GINAT, AVITAL TC10 Tel Aviv University [email protected]

GLOECKNER, OLAF MA12 Moses Mendelssohn Center for [email protected] European-Jewish Studies GOLAN, ARNON WC10 University of Haifa [email protected]

GOLD, DANA WB9 University of Western Ontario [email protected]

GOLDBERG, LUNA WD3 School of the Art Institute [email protected] of Chicago GONDOS, ANDREA WC7 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

GOODMAN, GIORA TC2 Kinneret College on the Sea of [email protected] Galilee GOREN, TAMIR WC10 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

GRIMMEISEN, JULIE MA2 Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität [email protected] München GROSGLIK, RAFI WA10 Brandeis University [email protected]

GROSS, AEYAL MA10 Tel Aviv University [email protected]

GROSSMAN, JONATHAN WA8 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem GRUWEIS-KOVALSKY, OFIRA WC9 Zefat Academic College& "The [email protected] Hadassah–Brandeis Institute" Brandeis University, GUEZ, DOR MB11 Bezalel Academy of Arts [email protected] and Design GULEN, BERKAY WA6 University of Washington [email protected]

GUREVICH, EVA WA7 Brandeis University [email protected]

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HAGILADI, NIMROD WB10 The Command and Staf [email protected] College, IDF HAKLAI, ODED MA4 Queen's University [email protected]

HALAMISH, AVIVA MA11 & MC9: CHAIR The Open University of Israel [email protected]

HALPERIN, AMIRA MA4 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem HALPERN, GILAD MC4 University of Haifa [email protected]

HARBORD, KATHERINE WA5 Liverpool John Moores University [email protected]

HAREL, ASSAF MC5, WB2 Rutgers University [email protected]

HARRIS, RACHEL S. TC12 University of Illinois, [email protected] Urbana-Champaign HARTAL, GILLY TC8 McGill University [email protected]

HAZKANI, SHAY MC9 University of Maryland, College [email protected] Park HENKIN, YAGIL WB10 IDF Command and Staf College [email protected]

HELLER, MARK MB9 Tel Aviv University [email protected]

HERF, JEFFREY WC3 University of Maryland, College [email protected] Park HERMANN, TAMAR MA9, WB8 The Open University of Israel [email protected]

HERZOG, BEN TA12 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

HESS, TAMAR WD2 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem HEVER, HANNAN WD2 Yale University [email protected]

HIRSCHHORN, SARA YAEL MA6, MB2 University of Oxford [email protected]

HOFNUNG, MENACHEM MC10 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem HOLLANDER, PHILIP WC6 University of Wisconsin-Madison [email protected]

HOROWITZ, SARA TA3 & TC12: CHAIR York University [email protected]

HUSSEIN, MOSTAFA MC5 University of Southern California [email protected]

IBISH, HUSSEIN PLENARY I Arab Gulf States Institute [email protected]

ILHAM, SHAHBARI TA10 University of Bradford [email protected]

INBARI, MOTTI TC6 The University of North Carolina, [email protected] Pembroke INI, GILEAD WA12 Committee for Accuracy in Middle [email protected] East Reporting in America JACOBS, CHARLES WC3 Scholars for Peace in the [email protected] Middle East JACOBSON, ABIGAIL MB6 Van Leer Jerusalem Institute [email protected]

JANGID, KHINVRAJ MB5, WA7 O.P. Jindal Global University [email protected]

KABALO, PAULA MC8 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

KAHN, GILBERT MC7 Kean University [email protected]

KALAGY, TEHILA TC6 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

KALMAN, OREN MB4 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

KAMPINSKY, AHARON RONI MB12 Efrata College [email protected]

KARLINSKY, NAHUM MA11 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

KATZ, SHEILA WB7 Berklee College of Music [email protected]

KATZ, IRIT WC2 University of Cambridge [email protected]

KATZIR, LINDSAY WC4 Louisiana State University [email protected]

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KEREN, MICHAEL MA8 University of Calgary [email protected]

KESGIN, BARIS TC4 Elon University [email protected]

KEYNAN, IRIT MA1 Center for Academic Studies, [email protected] Or Yehuda KEYSAR, ARIELA TC3 Trinity College [email protected]

KHAZZOOM, AZIZA MB7 Indiana University, Bloomington [email protected]

KLEIN, SHIRA MC11 Chapman University [email protected]

KLEIN, MENACHEM TA5 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

KLORMAN-ERAQI, BAT-ZION MB4: CHAIR The Open University of Israel [email protected]

KOBER, HANNAH TA6 Brandeis University [email protected]

KOREN, ANNETTE TC5: CHAIR Brandeis University [email protected]

KRAMER, MARTIN MB8 Shalem College [email protected]

KRANZ, DANI WB1 Bergische University Wuppertal [email protected]

KRAUSE, PETER WA3 Boston College [email protected]

KROLL-ZELDIN, OREN WB2 University of San Francisco [email protected]

KRUPNIK, ADRIAN WB11 Tel Aviv University [email protected]

KUMAR, SUNIL WC2 Jawaharlal Nehru University [email protected]

KURTZER, DANIEL MC1, PLENARY I Princeton University [email protected]

LAHAV, PNINA TA8: CHAIR Professor [email protected]

LANDES, RICHARD MA3, WA12 & WC3: Bar-Ilan University [email protected] CHAIR LARKEY, UTA TC2 Goucher College [email protected]

LASKIN, MARTIN TA12 Southern Connecticut State [email protected] University LAVID, LIOR TA7 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

LEBOVIC, NITZAN WA2 Lehigh University [email protected]

LEBOVITZ, ASAF TA2, WC7 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem, Ariel University LEHMAN-WILZIG, SAM WA9 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

LEHRS, LIOR TC4 New York University [email protected]

LEITNER, MILI TA12 University of Chicago [email protected]

LEVIN, KENNETH WA12 Harvard Medical School [email protected]

LEVIN, GEOFFREY WC1 New York University [email protected]

LEVINGER, SARA WB6 University of Haifa [email protected]

LEVY, ANDRÉ MB7 & TA2: CHAIR Brandeis University [email protected]

LEVY, AVIAD MB9 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem LEWIN, EYAL WD4 Ariel University [email protected]

LIANG, PINGAN WC8 Shanghai International Studies [email protected] University LIBMAN, LIOR WD2 State University of New York, [email protected] Binghamton LIEBERMAN, JULIA TC5 Saint Louis University [email protected]

LOCKER-BILETZKI, AMIR MA11 Concordia University [email protected]

LUSTICK, IAN MB8, WA2 University of Pennsylvania [email protected]

MALHOTRA, DIVYA WA10 Jawaharlal Nehru University [email protected]

MANCHESTER, DAVID TC3 Brandeis University [email protected]

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MARGALIT STERN, BAT-SHE- MA8 Schechter Institute of Jewish [email protected] VA Studies MARUYAMA, NAOKI WD5 Meiji Gakuin University [email protected]

MAZIAD, MARWA WA8 University of Washington [email protected]

MEDZINI, MERON WA4 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem MEHOZAY, YOAV WA2 University of Haifa [email protected]

MEROM, GIL MB9 University of Sydney [email protected]

MILES, WILLIAM MC7 Northeastern University [email protected]

MINKIN, SARAH ANNE TC3: CHAIR Just Vision [email protected]

MIRSKY, YEHUDAH TC10 Brandeis University [email protected]

MISHORY, ALEC WA1 Independent Scholar [email protected]

MITCHELL, GABRIEL WC5 Virginia Polytechnic Institute [email protected] and State University MIZRAHI-ARNAUD, YAEL MB7 Johns Hopkins School of [email protected] Advanced International Studies MOLLOV, BEN WB9 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

MUNK, YAEL TA3 The Open University of Israel [email protected]

MUNRO, HEATHER TC6 Durham University [email protected]

MURAVCHIK, JOSHUA WA12 Institute of World Politics [email protected]

MUSTAFA, MOHANAD MB3 Center of Academic Studies-Or [email protected] Yehuda NAGAR-RON, SIGAL MB7 Sapir Academic College [email protected]

NAOR, ARYE MA8 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

NAOR, MOSHE MB6 University of Haifa [email protected]

NARODITSKAYA, INNA MC2 Northwestern University [email protected]

NAVARRO, MARIA G TC10 University of Salamanca [email protected]

NEIGER, MIRIAM WC6 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem NELSON, CARY MB2, WC3 University of Illinois, [email protected] Urbana-Champaign NIKOLENYI, CSABA MA7, TA8, TC5 Concordia University [email protected]

NIR, ODED TA3 Franklin & Marshall College [email protected]

NORWINE, JAMES WA4 Texas A&M University [email protected]

NURIELY, BENNY WB5 Emek Izrael College [email protected]

ORON, ODED WB1 University of Washington [email protected]

OULAHBIB, LUCIEN WC3 Lyon 3, France [email protected]

PAN, MING HUI WA4 Concordia University [email protected]

PASSMORE, ASHLEY MC4 Texas A&M University [email protected]

PATT, AVINOAM WB5 University of Hartford [email protected]

PAZ, AYALA WB3 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

PEARCE, COLIN MA6 Clemson University [email protected]

PELEG, ILAN MA1, TC7, WA2 Lafayette College [email protected]

PERI, YORAM MC10 University of Maryland [email protected]

PERLIGER, ARIE MA9 University of Massachusetts, [email protected] Lowell PESSIN, ANDREW WC3 Connecticut College [email protected]

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PHILLIPS, BRUCE MA5: CHAIR Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles [email protected]

PIANKO, NOAM WC1 University of Washington [email protected]

PICARD, AVI WB8 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

POLLER, NIDRA MA3 Independent Scholar [email protected]

RABINEAU, SHAY WB8 Binghamton University [email protected]

RADAI, ITAMAR MB3, TA5 Tel Aviv University [email protected]

RAIDER, MARK WB4 University of Cincinnati [email protected]

RAM, URI MA6 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

RAVIV, ZOHAR WD7 Taglit-Birthright Israel [email protected]

REINHARZ, SHULAMIT MC6 & TC9: CHAIR Brandeis University [email protected]

REKHESS, ELIE TA10 Northwestern University [email protected]

RESSISSI, NIR TA6 Oranim College of Education [email protected]

RICKOVER, ITAMAR MB12 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

RINGEL, JOSEPH WB6 Northwestern University [email protected]

ROBINS, WALKER WB4 University of Oklahoma [email protected]

ROBINSON, IRA MB5 Concordia University [email protected]

ROGINSKY, DINA MB5, WD3 Yale University [email protected]

ROMIROWSKY, ASAF TA4 Scholars for Peace in the Middle [email protected] East (SPME) ROSENBERG-FRIEDMAN, TC9 Bar-Ilan University [email protected] LILACH ROSENHOLTZ, HAROLD MA5 Independent Scholar [email protected]

ROSMAN, ELISHEVA MB12 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

ROZIN, ORIT TA3 Tel Aviv University [email protected]

RUBIN, NOAH MC3, TA5 University of Michigan [email protected]

SABAR, GALIA WB1: CHAIR Ruppin College and Tel Aviv [email protected] University SAPOSNIK, ARIEH MB4 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

SASLEY, BRENT MA7 University of Texas, Arlington [email protected]

SASSON, TED MC1 Brandeis University [email protected]

SASSON-LEVY, ORNA TC8 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

SAXE, LEONARD WD7: CHAIR Brandeis University [email protected]

SCHAM, PAUL WC2 University of Maryland [email protected]

SCHILLING, CHRISTOPHER WD5 University of the West of England [email protected]

SCHMIDT-KLEINERT, ANJA WA7 University of Bielefeld [email protected]

SEIDLER, MEIR WB6 Ariel University [email protected]

SELZER, ASSAF TA12 University of Haifa [email protected]

SHAFER RAVIV, OMRI WB7 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem SHAFIR, GERSHON MA10, TC10 University of California, San Diego [email protected]

SHAIN, MICHELLE WD7 Brandeis University [email protected]

SHAKED , RONNI MB3 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem SHALOM, SHARON WA11 Brandeis University [email protected]

SHANI, LIRON MC5 Brandeis University [email protected]

SHAPIRA, ANITA PLENARY I Tel Aviv University [email protected]

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SHAUL BAR NISSIM, HANNA MB10 Brandeis University [email protected] SHAW, TONY TC2 University of Hertfordshire [email protected]

SHE, GANGZHENG WC8: CHAIR Brandeis University [email protected]

SHENIAK, AMIT MB9 Harvard University [email protected]

SHENKAR, MIRIAM WD1 The Ohio State University [email protected]

SHICHTMAN, MARTIN TC12 Eastern Michigan University [email protected]

SHILON, AVI TA7 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

SHINDLER, COLIN MA8 University of London [email protected]

SHLOMO, OREN MC3 Harvard University [email protected]

SHOSHAN, AYA WD6 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

SHTERN, MARIK MC3, WC9 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

SHUMSKY, DMITRY TC11 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem SMITH, ZACHARY TC4 University of Pennsylvania [email protected]

SOBELMAN, DANIEL WA3 Harvard University [email protected]

SOKOLOFF, NAOMI MC11 University of Washington [email protected]

SOSLAND, JEFFREY WC5 American University [email protected]

SPIEGEL, NINA WA1 Portland State University [email protected]

STARR, DAVID WB2 Brandeis University [email protected]

STEIN, KEN TA11 Emory University [email protected]

STEINBERG, GERALD MA3, PLENARY II Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

SUCHAROV, MIRA MA10, TA11 Carleton University [email protected]

SURANYI, RACHEL WB11 Eötvös Loránd University and [email protected] University of Haifa TABORY, EPHRAIM WC7 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

TADMOR- SHIMONY, TALI WA9 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

TARANT, ZBYNĚK WD4 University of West Bohemia [email protected]

TESSLER, MARK TA8 University of Michigan [email protected]

TIMOR, DORON WD6 Tel Aviv University [email protected]

TOVIAS, ALFRED WA6 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem TROEN, JUDAH MA11 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem TROEN, ILAN MC5, TA11 & KEY- Brandeis University [email protected] NOTE: CHAIR TZIDKIYAHU, ERAN MC3 Paris Institute of Political Studies [email protected] (Sciences Po) VARDI, MOAV MB1 Channel 10 News

VATER, ROMAN TA7 University of Oxford [email protected]

VOLOVICI, MARC WD3 Princeton University [email protected]

WALD, JAMES WC3 Hampshire College [email protected]

WALDMAN, FELICIA WA8 University of Bucharest [email protected]

WALLER, HAROLD MA7 McGill University [email protected]

WARD, JANET MC2 University of Oklahoma [email protected]

WEBERLING, ANNE MA12 University of Potsdam [email protected]

WEINBEER, LUKAS MC7 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

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WEINTRAUB, JEFF TA4 Bryn Mawr College [email protected]

WEISS, SHAYNA TC12 United States Naval Academy [email protected]

WEISS, AMY WC1 College of Saint Elizabeth [email protected]

WENTLING, SONJA TC4: CHAIR Concordia College [email protected]

WEXLER, ELAD MB4 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

WIESELTIER, LEON KEYNOTE Brookings Insitution

WISEMAN, LAURA TA9 York University [email protected]

YAFFE, LIRAZ WB3 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

YAHEL, HAVATZELET TC1 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

YAKIRA, ELHAHAN MC4, WA12 The Hebrew University of [email protected] Jerusalem YAKTER, ALON TA8 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor [email protected]

YANG, MENG WC8 Peking University and Free [email protected] University of Berlin YANG, YANG WC8 Shanghai International Studies [email protected] University YEMINI, BEN-DROR MA3 Yediot Achronot [email protected]

YEZERSKY, RENEN WB11 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev [email protected]

YOHANANI, LIOR WB5 Rutgers University [email protected]

YONA, LIHI TC8 Columbia University [email protected]

YUNGMAN, MIRA WA9 The Open University of Israel [email protected]

ZARHIN, DANA WD6 Tel Aviv University and University [email protected] of Haifa ZAWDU, ADANE MA9, TA2 University of Connecticut [email protected]

ZEEDAN, RAMI WB9 The Open University of Israel [email protected]

ZELKOVITZ, IDO MA1 Max Stern Yezreel Valley College [email protected]

ZERED, ELIRAN WC4 Bar-Ilan University [email protected]

ZERUBAVEL , YAEL MC5, TC11 Rutgers University [email protected]

ZIEGLER, RUVI TA8 University of Reading [email protected]

ZION-WALDOKS, TANYA MC6, TA1 Bar-Ilan University and Ben-Gurion [email protected] University of the Negev ZOMLOT, HUSAM PLENARY I Palestinian General Delegation to the United States ZOUFALA, MARCELA WB11 Charles University [email protected]

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