New Perspectives on the Right Wing in Israel

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

The session will present recent research on Israeli right wing parties, concentrating on the 1950s: the formative decade of the State of Israel.
The first and third presentations deal with the municipal level, concentrating on different aspects of local politics in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. As Israeli national parties were also represented on the municipal level, the outcomes of local elections and local politics in general played a considerable role in the formation of national politics.
While the first paper dealing with Tel Aviv concentrates mainly on party politics, the third also deals with ideological aspects of the right wing's relation to Jerusalem. The ideological aspects of the right wing in general will be thoroughly scrutinized in the second presentation that concentrates on Menachem Begin as an ideological leader who has asserted that ideology is the backbone of politics.

Sub Unit

• Israel Studies

Chair

• Yechiam Weitz, University of Haifa

Individual Presentations

• Fighting for the Right's Last Bastion: Municipal Elections in Tel Aviv during the 1950s - Arnon Golan, University of Haifa

• Notes on the Sources of Menachem Begin's Ideology - Arye Naor, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem

• The Attitude of the Revisionists Right Wing toward Jerusalem during 1948-1951 - Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky, Zefat Academic College+University of Haifa

Respondent

• Yechiam Weitz, University of Haifa