Title: Is There a Motivation Crisis in Military Recruitment in Israel?
Abstract: Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Stuart A. Cohen, The False 'Crisis' in Military Recruitment: An IDF Red Herring, Bar Ilan, 2007. 2. For various perspectives, see Uri Ben-Eliezer, The Making of Israeli Militarism, Bloomington, IN, 1998; Baruch Kimmerling, The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society, and the Military, Berkeley, CA, 2001; Yagil Levy, Israel's Materialist Militarism, Lanham, MD, 2007; Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled, Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, Cambridge, 2002. 3. Levy, Israel's Materialist Militarism. 4. See, for example, Yoash Avrahami, and Miri Lerner, 'The Effect of Combat Service and Military Rank on Entrepreneurial Careers: The Case of Israeli MBA Graduates', Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2003), pp. 97–118. 5. Baruch Nevo and Yael Shor, The People's Army? The Reserves in Israel, Jerusalem, 2002, p. 18 (Hebrew). 6. Uri Ram, The Globalization of Israel: McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem, New York, 2007; Shafir and Peled, Being Israeli. 7. Levy, Israel's Materialist Militarism, pp. 48–56. 8. Myron J. Aronoff, 'Wars as Catalysts of Political and Cultural Change', in Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari (eds.), The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society, Albany, NY, 1999, p. 44. 9. Asher Arian, 'From War to Peace and Back Again: Observations regarding Israeli Jewish Public Opinion 1987–2006' (n.d.). 10. Asher Arian, Nir Atmor and Yael Hadar, The 2007 Israeli Democracy Index, Jerusalem, 2007. 11. Data on the class distribution of the survey was provided by Yael Hadar, Israeli Democracy Institute, private communication, June 2007. 12. Eli Berman, 'Subsidized Sacrifice: State Support of Religion in Israel', Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 20 (1999), pp. 167–201. 13. Tal Committee Report, April 2000 (Hebrew). 14. 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Nevo and Shor, The People's Army. 36. Felix Frish, 'Mofaz: The Number of Reserve Days will not Rise', Ynet, 18 March 2003. 37. Michael Shalev, 'Have Globalization and Liberalization "Normalized" Israel's Political Economy?', Israel Affairs, Vol. 5, No. 2–3 (1999), pp. 121–155. 38. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 39. Avishai Luski, 'The Parental Discourse', Paper Presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Israeli Sociological Association, Tel Aviv, Israel, February 2008 (Hebrew). 40. Tsippy Gon-Gross, The Family Joins the Army, Tel Aviv, 2003 (Hebrew); Nevo and Shor, The Contract, pp. 9–35 (Hebrew). 41. See Gon-Gross, The Family. 42. Hanna Herzog, 'Family–Military Relations in Israel as a Genderizing Social Mechanism', Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2004), pp. 5–30. 43. Sari Makover-Blikov, 'Why Should I Fight?', Ma'ariv Supplement, 11 February 2005. 44. Levy, The Other Army, pp. 305–366. 45. Cynthia Enloe, Ethnic Soldiers: State Security in Divided Societies, Athens, 1980. 46. For more information, see Levy, Israel's Materialist, Chapters 4, 7. 47. Ofer Shelah, The Israeli Army: A Radical Proposal, Or Yehuda, 2003 (Hebrew). Additional informationNotes on contributorsYagil Levy The Author would like to thank Asher Arian for his very constructive suggestions, Yinon Cohen, Edna Lomsky-Feder and Noa Harel for allowing the use of data from collaborative studies, and Yael Hadar from the Israeli Democracy Institute for compiling data.
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