A Raid on the Red Sea is the thrilling, real-life tale of
illegal gun-running in the Middle East. In this firsthand account,
Amos Gilboa gives the harrowing details of the secret close-working
...relations between Israeli and American intelligence in the seizure
of the Karine A ship, the most successful Israeli
intelligence operation since the legendary Entebbe hostage rescue.
At 0400 hours, January 3, 2002, two fast boats of Israel's naval
commando unit closed in on the stern of the Palestinian Authority's
Karine A . The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
had clandestinely loaded its cargo: fifty-six tons of high-grade,
long-range weapons destined for the Gaza Strip. The Israelis' plan
to seize it went awry when they found nothing but a confused group
of Egyptians, Jordanians, and Palestinians. Had they boarded the
wrong ship? Was there going to be an international incident
disgracing Israel? This drama has more than its share of plot
twists. The story's hero, a low-level female intelligence analyst,
was the first to grasp the grave danger posed by the Karine
A . Analyzing piles of disinformation, she kept on the scent of
the ship, tracking it from Egypt to Sudan to Dubai. Only through
the joint efforts of Israeli and U.S. naval intelligence, Mossad
and the CIA, was the ship stopped and calamity averted. Seizing the
ship led to a fateful reorientation of U.S. policy regarding the
Middle East with consequences to this day, from the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the 2020 assassination of Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force chief Qasem Soleimani.
How did the Ultraorthodox (Haredi) community chart a new path
for its future after it lost the core of its future leaders,
teachers, and rabbis in the Holocaust? How did the revival of this
group ...come into being in the new Zionist state of Israel?
In Holocaust Memory in Ultraorthodox Society in Israel ,
Michal Shaul highlights the special role that Holocaust survivors
played as they rebuilt and consolidated Ultraorthodox society.
Although many Haredi were initially theologically opposed to the
creation of Israel, they have become a significant force in the
contemporary life and politics of the country. Looking at personal
and public experiences of Ultraorthodox survivors in the first
years of emigration from liberated Europe and breaking down how
their memories entered the public domain, Shaul documents how they
were incorporated into the collective memories of the Ultraorthodox
in Israel.
Holocaust Memory in Ultraorthodox Society in Israel
offers a rare mix of empathy and scholarly rigor to understandings
of the role that the community's collective memories and survivor
mentality have played in creating Israel's national identity.
Within a short span of time in the course of the 1980s, the Supreme Court of Israel effected far-reaching changes in its legal doctrine and in the way it perceives its role among the state's ...branches. This book locates those changes in the context of the great historical process that took shape in Israel in the second half of the 1970s: the decline of the political, social, and cultural hegemony of the labor movement, and the renewal of the struggle over the future orientation of the country's culture. Two social groups have confronted each other at the heart of this struggle: a secular group that is aiming to strengthen Israel's ties to Western liberalism, and a religious group intent on associating Israel's culture with traditional Jewish heritage and the Halakhah. The Supreme Court — the institution most closely identified with liberalism since the establishment of the state — collaborated with the former group in its struggle against the latter. The story of the Court serves as the axis of another two stories. The first deals with the struggle over the cultural identity of the Jewish people throughout the course of modernity. The second is the story of the struggle over the cultural identity of Israeli law, which took place throughout the 20th century. In addition to the divide between secular and religious Jews, there is a national divide in Israel between Jews and Arabs. These two divides are interrelated in complex ways which shape the unique traits of Israel's multicultural condition. The book ends with a few suggestions as to how, given this condition, Israel's regime, political culture and law should be constituted in the coming decades. The suggestions borrow from the discourses of liberalism, multiculturalism, and republicanism.
Weaving in Stones: Garments and Their Accessories in the Mosaic Art of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity is the first book to trace and document the garments and their accessories worn by some 245 ...figures represented on approximately 41 mosaic floors (some only partially preserved) that once decorated both public and private structures within the historical-geographical area of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity. After identifying, describing and cataloguing the various articles of clothing, a typological division differentiating between men's, women's and children's clothing is followed by a discussion of their iconographic formulae and significance, including how the items of clothing and accessories were employed and displayed and their ideological and social significance. The book is copiously illustrated with photographs of mosaics and other artistic media from throughout the Greek, Roman and Byzantine world, with particular emphasis on the examples from Eretz Israel.
