Israeli Politics and Society

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course offers an inside view of a wide variety of political and social aspects of Israel's domestic political setting in order to provide a better understanding of Israeli society. Among the issues studied will be: Israel's political system; economy; the role of the army in society; social rifts (especially those between Oriental vs. Western Jews; secularists vs. religious camp); the absorption of new immigrants; the problems of Israel's Palestinian population; post-Zionist debates in Israeli intellectual life; and the present political impasse in the peace process.