The History of Modern Israel - Part II: Challenges of Israel as a sovereign state
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| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based | 
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| INR 2436 | yes | Coursera | 
The Syllabus
Videos
- Course Trailer
 - Introduction
 - The Israeli Political System
 - The First Years - A Political review
 - Security Threats and Military Operations
 - Economic Difficulties and Economic Growth
 - Facing mass Immigration and the Challenge of Absorption - Part 1
 - Facing mass Immigration and the Challenge of Absorption - Part 2
 - The Eichmann Trial
 - International Relations and Domestic Policy
 - A Man & A Symbol: Ben Gurion's Leadership – An interview with Prof. Zeev Tsachor (In Hebrew - Please use subtitles)
 - Popular Culture and Common Life in the fifties and Sixties - An interview with Prof. Orit Rozin
 - Summary
 
Readings
- The Armistice - Moshe Sharett
 - The Kfar Qasim massacre court trial
 
Practice Exercise
Videos
- Opening
 - The Six-Day War
 - The Impact of the War on Israeli society: Geography, demography, economy, politics, defense, culture, the issue of the territories
 - The Yom Kippur war
 - The Impact of the war on the Israeli society: political impact, economic, shattering of Israeli identity
 - Non-Parliamentary political organization - Settlement movement
 - Non-Parliamentary political organization - Peace Now
 - Peace with Egypt
 - The relations with Egypt - Interview with Shimon Shamir
 
Readings
- The path towards the Six-Day War - Political view
 - The path towards the Six-Day War - Civilian view
 
Practice Exercise
Videos
- Opening
 - The political turnover and the rise of the "National traditional block"
 - Economic transformation
 - The 1st Lebanon war
 - The Palestinian uprising (1st Intifada)
 - Immigration
 - Towards negotiations with the Palestinians
 - The Oslo accords
 - Peace with Jordan
 - Rabin's Assassination
 
Readings
- Sephardi discrimination feelings
 
Practice Exercise
Videos
- Opening
 - Americanization and Globalization: Politics and Culture
 - The Jewish context: Israel-Diaspora relationship
 - Towards a Multi-Cultural Society
 - Zionism, Post-Zionism & Religious Zionism
 - The Memory of the Holocaust as a Basis for Collective Identity
 - The Memory of the Holocaust and the IDF (Israeli army) - An interview with Dr. Tammy Hoffman
 
Readings
- President Reuven Rivlin address regarding the fragmentation of the Israeli society
 - Author Amos Oz arguing for cultural diversity
 - Author Aharon Appelfeld, a Holocaust survivor, testifies:
 
Practice Exercise
Videos
- Opening
 - Economic growth and Transformation - The Start-Up nation
 - Israeli society Probes, Challenges, The social protest and its results
 - Israeli Democracy Political Fragmentation and Discontent
 - The 2nd intifada, Gaza withdrawal and wars
 - The Transformation of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (State Actors and non-State Players)
 - Jewish and Democratic: Challenges and tensions
 - Jewish and Democratic or Jewish vs Democratic? - An interview panel (In Hebrew - Please use subtitles)
 
Practice Exercise
Articles