Transcript מצגת של PowerPoint - York St John University

Dr. Israelit Rubinstein
Bet-Yatziv/ Kaye College
Israel
June 2013
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The New History
since the midst of the 19th century
 Establishing of a Jewish nation state
 Promotion of socialism as the basic socio-
economic platform
 Loyalty to the Jewish culture - as opposed to
religious tradition
 Commitment to democracy and universal values
 "Creation" of a new Israeli type as opposed to the
diaspora Jew
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Hegemonies Culture – Up to late 70th
 Jewish - Israeli
 Western – European
 Democratic – “republican” model
 Secular – ambivalence towards tradition
 Patriotic - building a new society
 Uniqueness and insecurity
 Reformist – the new replaces the old
 Socialistic
Dramatic Changes - since the 80th
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Immense demographic changes
Shaking the legitimation of our “forefathers”
Processing towards liberal democracy
The win of globalism and neo-liberalism
Weakening of the center
Radicalism as the preferred expression
Weakening of consensual democracy
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Nowadays - since the 90th
 Political draw – accelerating changes
 Empowering of marginal groups - periphery
 “Empty” center – instability
 Multi narratives
 Globalism – localism - Americanization
 Empowering the individual
 Emerging of class identification
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Multiculturalism - The main players
 Secular, traditional, religious, ultra orthodox
 Jewish, Arabs (Palestinians), other nations
 Jewish, Muslims, Druze Bedouin, Christian etc.
 Classes & groups outside the inner stratification
 Doves – Hawks
 Westernizers – Easterners
 Gender based
 Ethnicity based
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Selected Data: 8,012,000 inhabitants
+ 200,000[?] foreign workers
 Jewish – 76%
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6,080,000
Not defined: 318,000
48% secular
35% traditional
12% religious
5% ultraorthodox
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 Arabs – 17%
1,656,000
 83% Muslims
 9% Christian
 8% Druze
Percentages of Muslims
Muslims
1946
608.2
1,076.8
58.35%
1955
1,203.0
116.1
8.80%
1972
2,752.7
360.6
11.58%
]2[1995
4,522.3
811.2
15.21%
2000
4,955.4
970.0
16.73%
2011
5,921.7
1,335.7
17.02%
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Population Density - 2007
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