Israel’s Summer of Discontent

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Notes

1 Yossi Klein Halevi, “The wounded Jewish psyche and the divided Israeli soul,” The Times of Israel, July 28, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wounded-jewish-psyche-and-the-divided-israeli-soul/.

2  Tamar Hermann and Or Anabi, “National Mood Unrestful,” Israel Democracy Institute, April 3, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/48985. 

3 See Yaron Avraham, “Most of the Public Fears a Civil War; Gantz Once Again Takes the Lead over Netanyahu: Ulpan Shishi Poll” [Hebrew], N12, July 15, 2023, https://www.mako.co.il/news-politics/2023_q3/Article-aa016860f945981026.htm.

4 Egged (or, in full, the Egged Public Transportation Company) is the oldest, and still largest, public transportation operator in Israel.

5 That is some 22 percent of the total population of the country, which stood at 4.66 million in 1990.

6 Naxela NAXELA, “Itzik Zarka ym6c3t6pkorD7hJ,” YouTube, July 6, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8GwHixIYd4.

7 For a discussion of the meaning of the word, see Nir Kedar, “Ben-Gurion’s Mamlakhtiut: Etymological and Theoretical Roots,” Israel Studies, VII:3 (2002); and Asaf Romirovsky, “The Hebrew Word Bibi Must Learn to Resolve Israel’s Political Crisis,” Tablet, September 26, 2019, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/hebrew-word-bibi-must-learn.

8 Vanessa A. Boese, Martin Lundstedt, Kelly Morrison, Yuko Sato, and Staffan I. Lindberg, “State of the world 2021: autocratization changing its nature?” Democratization, XXIX:6 (2022), 983–101, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2022.2069751.

9 However, with high levels of inequality and runaway real estate prices in Tel Aviv, an economics-based argument could reasonably be made.

10 “Projections of Israel Population until 2065,” Central Bureau of Statistics, May 21, 2017, https://www.cbs.gov.il/en/mediarelease/Pages/2017/Projections-of-Israel-Population-until-2065.aspx.

11 “Israel-rankings, news | U.S. news best countries,” U.S. News and World Report, December 2022, https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/israel.

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Amichai Magen

Amichai Magen is head of the MA Program in Diplomacy & Conflict Studies and Director of the Program on Democratic Resilience and Development (PDRD) at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University. He is currently a Visiting Professor in Political Science and Fellow in Israel Studies at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University.