Volume 18 Number 3 Fall 2013 Israel Studies Special Section: Roundtable on the Status of Women in Israel Today Contents Volume 18 Number 3 Fall 2013 Special Section—Roundtable on the Status of Israeli Women Today Introduction Pnina Lahav 1 From Law to Politics: The Path to Gender Equality Noya Rimalt 5 The Self-Defeating Nature of “Modesty”— Based Gender Segregation Zvi Triger 19 Men’s Groups as a New Challenge to the Israeli Feminist Movement: Lessons from the Ongoing Gender War over the Tender Years Presumption Dafna Hacker 29 Articles Israeli Approved Textbooks and the 1948 Palestinian Exodus Rafi Nets-Zehngut 41 The Imagined Audience of Israeli Army Radio: An Historical Perspective Oren Soffer 69 The Swiss Armed Forces as a Model for the IDF Reserve System—Indeed? Yitzhak Greenberg 95 “Mom, I’m Home”: Israeli Lebanon-War Films as Inadvertent Preservers of the National Narrative Yuval Benziman 112 From Philanthropy to Shaping a State: Hadassah and Ben-Gurion, 1937–1947 Zohar Segev 133 Teaching Israel at American Universities: Growth, Placement, and Future Prospects Annette Koren, Janet Krasner Aronson, 158 Leonard Saxe Notes on Contributors 179 Guidelines for Contributors 182 The cover: (see Noya Rimalt, “From Law to Politics: The Path to Gender Equality” in the Special Section: Roundtable on the Status of Women in Israel Today Women in Israel Female Members of Knesset from left to right: Karin Alharrar (Yesh Atid); Michal Biran (Avoda); Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid); Rina Frenkel (Yesh Atid); Zahava Gal-On (Meretz); Gila Gamliel (Likud Beitenu); Yael German (Yesh Atid); Tzipi Hotovely (Likud Beitenu); Yifat Kariv (Yesh Atid); Fania Kirshenbaum (Likud Beitenu); Adi Koll (Yesh Atid); Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid); Orly Levi-Abekasis (Likud Beitenu); Limor Livnat (Likud Beitenu); Tzipi Livni (Hatenua); Merav Michaeli (Avoda); Shuli Moalem-Refaeli (HaBayit HaYehudi); Miri Regev (Likud Beitenu); Michal Rozin (Meretz); Stav Shafir (Avoda); Ayelet Shaked (HaBayit HaYehudi); Orit Strock (HaBayit HaYehudi); Penina Tamanu-Shata (Yesh Atid); Shelly Yachimovich (Avoda); Tamar Zandberg (Meretz); Hanin Zoabi (National Democratic Assembly); Sofa Landver (Likud Beitenu). [Photos from the Knesset website] Courtesy of the Knesset Israel Studies Volume 18 Number 3 Fall 2013 Editors S. Ilan Troen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / Brandeis University Natan Aridan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Edna Oxman, Copy Editor Editorial Board Majid Al-Haj, Haifa University Gannit Ankori, Brandeis University Arnold J. Band, University of California, Los Angeles Uri Bialer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Alain Dieckhoff, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris Eliezer Don-Yehiya, Bar-Ilan University Alan Dowty, University of Notre Dame Tuvia Friling, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Daniel Kurtzer, Princeton University Pnina Lahav, Boston University Moshe Lissak, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Amos Oz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Derek Penslar, Oxford University Shulamit Reinharz, Brandeis University Gabi Sheffer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Moshe Shemesh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Eugene Sheppard, Brandeis University Ofer Shiff, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Colin Shindler, S.O.A.S, University of London Russell A. Stone, American University, Washington, D.C. Chaim I. Waxman, Rutgers University Alex Weingrod, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Yael Zerubavel, Rutgers University Ronald Zweig, New York University.