THE 31st ANNUAL MEEtiNG OF THE AssOCiatiON FOR ISRAEL STUDIES SUSTAINABLE IsRAEL: A Changing Society in the 21st Century June 1–3, 2015 Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies Concordia University FACULTY OF Sir George Williams Campus ARTS AND SCIENCE Azrieli Institute Montreal, Quebec, Canada of Israel Studies HALL BUILDING 5TH FLOOR HALL BUILDING 6TH FLOOR HH- HH-539 HH-633 633. HH-53 HH- HH-63 537 HH-553 HH-529 HH-629 Escalier mobile Escalier mobile HH-540 HH-544 HH-627 HH-564 HH-562 HH-557 HH-520 HH-625 Pause-caféHH-620 Acfas Pause-café Acfas Informations Informations HH-523 HH-623 HH-56 HH-62 HH-52 HH-69 HH-607 HH-57 HH-509 HH-50 HH-565 HH-63 HH-6 HH-609 HH-605 HH- HH-603 HH-65 603. 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HH- 765 You should now be connected HH- Eduroam is also available at Concordia University 705 HH- HH- HH- 769 767 70 2 The 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies SUSTAINABLE ISRAEL: A CHANGING SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies Board of Directors, Association for Israel Studies Concordia University Sir George Williams Campus President: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Menachem Hofnung June 1-3, 2015 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Vice-President: Program Committee Chair Ilan Troen Brandeis University Csaba Nikolenyi, Concordia University Treasurer: Ilan Ben-Ami Local Organizing Committee The Open University of Israel Meir Amor, Concordia University Executive Officer: Bina Freiwald, Concordia University Amnon Cavari Yakub Halabi, Concordia University (Graduate Workshop IDC Herzliya Coordinator) First Term Board Members, 2013-2015: Program Committee Michael Brenner Gábor Balázs, Jewish University of Budapest American University and University of Munich Rebecca Leah Golbert, University of California Yakub Halabi, Concordia University Ayelet Harel-Shalev Mordechai Inbari, University of North Carolina at Pembroke Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Paula Kabalo, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Mustafa Kabha Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania The Open University of Israel Arye Naor, Hadassah Academic College Bruce Phillips, Hebrew Union College Tamar Liebes Plesner, z”l Yaron Shemer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hebrew University of Jerusalem Shaul Shenhav, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jonathan Mendilow Ilana Szobel, Brandeis University Rider University David Tal, University of Sussex Keren Weinshall-Margel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Arye Naor Asaf Zohar, Trent University Hadassah Academic College Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman Conference Staff Bar-Ilan University Jennifer Solomon Gabriel Sheffer Conference Coordinator Hebrew University of Jerusalem Marat Grebennikov Program Assistant Nathanaël (Nate) Dagane Program Assistant 1 Second Term Board Members, Forum of Immediate Past Presidents: 2009-2015: Gad Barzilai Glenda Abramson University of Washington and University of Haifa Law Oxford University School (2011-2013) Emanuel Adler Aviva Halamish University of Toronto The Open University of Israel (2009-2011) Gur Alroey Rachel Brenner University of Haifa University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007-2009) Robert Freedman Johns Hopkins University Ex Officio: Pnina Lahav Yoram Peri Boston University Editor, Israel Studies Review Ilan Peleg Yael Aronoff Lafayette College Associate Editor for Book Reviews, Theodore Sasson Israel Studies Review Brandeis University Paul Scham Anita Shapira Associate Editor for Review Essays, Tel Aviv University Israel Studies Review Colin Shindler University of London Dov Waxman City University of New York 2 FACULTY OF Azrieli Institute of ARTS AND SCIENCE Israel Studies AZRIELI INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL STUDIES The Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, is a multi-disciplinary Visiting Researcher Opportunity research centre that fosters and supports graduate studies, The Institute welcomes applications for short-term or sabbatical faculty-based research projects, conferences, public lectures and Visiting Researcher positions. Research stipends are available. exchange programs. For further details contact: Postdoctoral Fellowship [email protected] or 514-848-2424 ext: 8721. A postdoctoral fellowship is available in the amount of $24,000. www.concordia.ca/azrieli Additional top-up funding and teaching stipends may be available by application. 3 WE gratefully AcknowledgE thE generous sponsors WhO have made this conferencE possiblE: FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies Arnold and Felicia Aaron Foundation Alice and Joel Raby Rosalind and Morris Goodman Family Wilma Mashal Foundation Manya and David Stendel Family Foundation Henry and Berenice Kaufman Foundation Sari Wieskopf and Roger Antebi We also wish to thank the conference exhibitors and advertisers: The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Indiana University Press Studies at the University of Toronto The Israel Film Center at JCC Manhattan Association for the Study of Middle East and Africa Israel Studies Journal (ASMEA) Jewish Public Library of Montreal The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Middlebury Schools Abroad and Language Schools Israel & Zionism Polity Press Berghahn Books Random House Academic Brandeis University Press Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group Cambridge University Press Ruth Diskin Films Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion Scholars’ Choice University of the Negev Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis Univeristy Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University The Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at Center for Israel Studies at American University the University of Nebraska European Association of Israel Studies Taub Center for Israel Studies Dr. Marc Garneau, C.C., CD, F.C.A.S.I., MP Tourisme Montreal Doïna Harap Productions Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Films We Like Yale University Press - Jewish Lives 4 Ianna Publications and Education Inc. Zeitgeist Films Dear Conference Participants, I invite you to peruse the program book and identify the scholars, the topics On behalf of the Azrieli Institute of and ideas that you would like to engage Israel Studies, I am delighted to welcome during the Annual Meeting. you to our campus and classrooms! I would like to thank the members of The Azrieli Institute opened its the AIS 2015 Program Committee doors four years ago and we have as well as the senior executive of the accomplished much to be proud of. Association, Dr. Menachem Hofnung We regularly provide research support (President), Dr. Ilan Troen (Vice- for our graduate students and faculty President), Dr. Amnon Cavari (Executive members who are engaged in the Officer), and Dr. Ilan Ben-Ami academic study of Israel; we have (Treasurer), for their dedication and created the first and only Israel Studies support as we have built the conference undergraduate program (Minor) in program. Canada; and we have welcomed post- doctoral and visiting faculty fellows to Sincerely yours, continue their work using our facilities. Indeed, we hope to see many of you come back to visit us in the future in some capacity! Csaba Nikolenyi The academic program of this year’s Professor, Department of Political Annual Meeting provides a forum Science for the major intellectual debates Director, Azrieli Institute of Israel that continue to define and advance Studies the field of Israel Studies. In addition Concordia University to the regular working sessions, the program also features a number of special events devoted to the multi- disciplinary exploration of the theme of sustainability as well as the presentation of several contemporary Israeli documentary and feature films. 5 Dear Conference Participants and Guests, members and Csaba Nikolenyi as its Chair had to review hundreds of panels It is my great pleasure to welcome you and paper proposals and did a masterful all – long-term AIS members and those job. They deserve our deepest gratitude. who are attending for the first time – to our Annual Meeting of the Association It is also my pleasure to thank the AIS for Israel Studies at the Azrieli Institute officers, the Vice President, Professor of Israel Studies in Concordia University, Ilan Troen, the Treasurer, Dr. Ilan Montreal, Canada. Ben Ami, and Dr. Amnon Cavari, the Executive officer. All three were very Since its creation in 1984, the AIS essential in bringing this meeting has grown considerably and is now into fruition. consisting of hundreds of scholars in five continents and dozens of countries. This I hope that you will enjoy the meeting meeting is made possible only through and that your interaction with your the support, volunteer work and good colleagues from many different countries spirit of our members. We are looking will stimulate a creative exchange of forward to engaging and scholarly ideas and will be personally rewarding. enriching meeting aimed to broaden I look forward to meeting you during research and understanding of various our time in Montreal. aspects tied to Israeli history, social life, politics, culture and arts. I would like to take