Presents the Palestinian peace platform for achieving peaceful co-existence of Moslems, Christians, and Jews in Palestine. The proposal calls for the establishment of a secular, democratic state. Although the Israeli government has officially rejected the proposal, the emergence of an Israeli peace movement indicates public recognition of the need…

Describes origins, history, and functions of Israeli Kibbutz institutions with a focus on Kibbutz Artzi, a left-wing Zionist organization which sets up junior and senior residential high schools. Recent developments have led to reducing the "total" nature of these institutions. Detailed reasons for and implications of changes are…

This bulletin describes the interplay of demographic and sociopolitical processes in Israel since the state's founding in May 1948 and projects what it might be to 2015. Heavy Jewish immigration, especially during the "mass immigration" of 1948-51, has balanced the high natural increase of Moslems so that the proportion of Jews in…

Describes the structure and development of religious schools in Israel--the yeshiva for boys, the ulpana for girls. Details the graduates' unique cultural identity, their career and family preferences, their attitudes to the military, and their emergence as a national elite. (RDN)

Child development in Israel takes place in a context of many unique influences. Influences which define the nature of family experience include religion, ethnic group membership, immigrant or non-immigrant status, and urban or rural living. All of these influences are situated within, and further influenced by, the continuous state of military…

States that, in Israel, different group perspectives, cultural values, and codes of behavior make various forms of cultural and conceptual (if not physical) violence inevitable. Argues that postmodern education should enhance the differences between perspectives, and develop a new set of sensitivities to highlight the consequences of different…

Reports that the educational experience of Israeli Jews from Islamic countries (Mizrahi Jews) demonstrates the struggle between egalitarian rhetoric (a critical multiculturalism with a social-democratic character) on one hand and a practice of segregation (an autonomist multiculturalism with fundamentalist features) on the other. (Contains 78 end…

In the last two decades, the Israeli educational system has transformed from a state controlled and financed bureaucratic system into a decentralized, partly locally controlled, and increasingly privately financed system. Argues that these changes cater to the educational interest of middle and upper middle classes and undermine the principle of…

Compares two indigenous minority groups--the Basques in Spain and the Druze in Israel--and the ways in which they differ in their emphasis on early childhood programs that attempt to retain cultural and linguistic or religious heritages. (BB)

Contains seven essays addressing the following topics: (1) Israeli youths' search for identity; (2) the Black Panthers of Israel; (3) cultural characteristics and group image of religious youth; (4) drug use among high school students; (5) Israeli youth movements; (6) proscriptive values in high school youth; and (7) disadvantaged youngsters in a…

This paper examines how Israel's educational system attempts to deal with major social, geographic, religious, economic, and political problems. Problems are presented in two main categories--internal and external. Internal problems include high immigration levels, religious and cultural differences among various Jewish sects and between Jews and…