Gabriel Sheffer is a professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University. He is author of Moshe Sharett: Biography of a Political Moderate and Diaspora Politics: At Home Abroad.

Oren Barak is a senior lecturer in political science and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society.

Introduction / Oren Barak and Gabriel Sheffer

1. The Study of Civil-Military Relations in Israel: A New Perspective / Oren Barak and Gabriel Sheffer

2. Military Knowledge and Weak Civilian Control in the Reality of Low Intensity Conflict-The Israeli Case / Kobi Michael

3. Civil Society, the Military, and National Security: The Case of Israel's Security Zone in South Lebanon / Avraham Sela

4. Intractable Conflict and the Media / Yoram Peri

5. Tensions between Military Service and Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel: Implications Imagined and Real / Stuart A. Cohen

6. From "Obligatory Militarism" to "Contractual Militarism"-Competing Models of Citizenship / Yagil Levy, Edna Lomsky-Feder, and Noa Harel

7. Shadow Lands: The Use of Land Resources for Security Needs in Israel / Amiram Oren

8. "The Battle over Our Homes": Reconstructing/Deconstructing Sovereign Practices around Israel's Separation Barrier on the West Bank / Yuval Feinstein and Uri Ben-Eliezer

9. The Debate over the Defense Budget in Israel / Zalman F. Shiffer

10. Civilian Control over the Army in Israel and France / Samy Cohen

11. The Making of Israel's Political-Security Culture / Amir Bar-Or

12. The Discourses of "Psychology" and the "Normalization" of War in Contemporary Israel / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari

13. Visual Representations of IDF Women Soldiers and "Civil-Militarism" in Israel / Chava Brownfield-Stein

14. Contradictory Representation of the IDF in Cultural Texts of the 1980s / Yuval Benziman

15. Military and Society since 9/11: Retrospect and Prospect / Christopher Dandeker

Appendix A. Israeli Ministers of Defense since 1948

Appendix B. Chiefs of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces since 1948

Appendix C. Important Dates

Contributors

Index