IYUNIM BITKUMAT ISRAEL Studies in Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel Published with the assistance of Yad David Ben-Gurion IYUNIM BITKUMAT ISRAEL Studies in Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel Volume 20 THE BEN-GURION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SEDE BOQER CAMPUS BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV 2010 Editors: Avi Bareli, Gideon Katz Assistant Editor: Orna Miller Editorial Board: Avi Bareli, Daniel Gutwein, Aviva Halamish, Gideon Katz, Moshe Lissak, Esther Meir-Glitzenstein, Zaki Shalom, Avigad Vonshak Style Editing: Israel Ronen, Ravit Delouya, Nurit Valk Editing & Type Editing: Nili Hirt Abstracts Editing: Moshe Tlamim Cover Design: Adth Vanooijen Production Manager: Shaul Shragai ISSN 0792-7169 © 2010 All Rights Reserved The Ben-Gurion Research Institute Photo Typesetting: Sefi Graphics Design, Beer Sheva Printed in Israel at Keterpress Enterprises, Jerusalem CONTENTS Politics Moshe Lissak ‘Scientific Strategists’ in the Period of Uri Cohen Mamlachtiut: Reciprocity between the Academic Community and Political Power Centers 1 Dani Filc We Are the People (You Are Not!): Inclusive and Exclusive Populism in Israel 28 Chen Friedberg Knesset Committees in a Supervisory Perspective: A Chronicle of a Failure Foretold? 49 Arnon Golan Municipal Elections in Tel Aviv during the 1950s: Processes, Results, and Ramifications 80 1948 Mustafa Abbasi The Conquest of Nazareth: The Arab City that Survived the War 101 Memory and Identity Michael Feige The Helicopter Disaster Monument and the Paradox of Privatizing the Commemoration of the Nation’s Dead 122 Amir Ben Porat Hebrew is Hard to Learn, but Everyone Spoke Football 144 Mooli Brog Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv Discoveres the Maccabees’ Tombs, 1907-1911: The Shaping of Collective Memory and National Identity 169 The Israeli Labor Movement Anita Shapira The Kibbutz and the State 193 Danny Gutwein The Dialectic between the Pioneering Ethos and Socialist Ideology in the Israeli Labor Movement: David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Aharon, 1948-1967 208 Golda Meir Meir Chazan Golda Meir: A Female Leader, Chairwoman of the Party 249 Zaki Shalom Document: Golda Meir’s meeting with the Newspaper Editors after the Yom Kippur War 279 Society Kimmy Caplan ‘Cheeky Dirty Convert’: The Marriage of Amram Blau and Ruth Ben-David 300 Nissim Leon The Posek (Religious Arbiter) as Lobbyist: Halacha and Populism in Contemporary Sephardic Jewry 337 Michal Shaul The Regeneration of Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Society after the Holocaust: Starting with the Old 360 Avraham Doron The End of Social Citizenship: Rebuilding Welfare Policies on the Basis of Contractuality 396 Jewish Diasporas Ofer Schiff ‘And Mordecai Bowed Not Down’: Abba Hillel Silver’s Complex Zionist Struggle against Nazism 413 Hagit Cohen The Transatlantic Book Trade and Growth of the Yiddish Cultural Center in America, 1890-1939 437 Abbreviations 467 List of Participants 468 List of Books Published by The Ben-Gurion Research Institute 469 ISRAEL STUDIES 480 English Abstracts i.