national identity

Family and friends of Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Fraenkel, three Israeli teenagers who were abducted over two weeks ago, take part in their funeral in the city of Modiin, Israel, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

The Israeli nation collectively mourns – but why?

Paradoxically, the feeling that those who were killed could have been our children – feeling as though they are our children – is one of the mechanisms that convinces people to send their children to kill and to die. By Inna Michaeli In the days following the announcement of the murder of the three abducted…

By +972 Magazine July 7, 2014

A Jew and a Palestinian face off (file photo, by Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Is a binational identity possible in Israel?

Two academics get into a public intellectual debate over secular national identity and the characteristics of binationalism in the future of Israel or binational state. Despite their bitter assaults against one another’s ideas, they are far closer than they realize. By Jeremiah Haber It’s open season on Prof. Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University in…

By +972 Magazine June 11, 2013

Mass demonstration for housing and economic issues, Tel Aviv, 23 July 2011 (Photo: Eyal Warshavsky)

WATCH: The housing protest – a new national identity?

A sound and slideshow by Eyal Warshavsky, with national anthem Hatikva as the crescendo, illustrates the powerful sense of a shared national cause emerging from the demonstration last Saturday night. What began as an outcry over high housing prices is taking on ever-larger dimensions, and Israelis of all stripes have rallied to the cause of…

By Dahlia Scheindlin July 26, 2011

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