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A Broken Society Meets the Swords of Iron War
Israel Between Fragmentation and Cohesion
Series: - Jewish Identities in a Changing World, Volume: 38
What happens when a society already torn apart by constitutional crisis meets war? In Israel, the struggle over the Judicial Reform shatters trust, fills the streets with mass protest, and pushes basic questions about democracy, solidarity, and the rules of the game to the breaking point. Then comes October 7 and the Swords of Iron War. This book asks what these twin shocks do to a society from the inside. Does crisis deepen old rifts, or create new forms of cohesion? Can war restore solidarity, or does it sharpen exclusion, populism, and distrust? Bringing together scholars, activists, and public intellectuals who live through these events in real time, the volume shows you how politics, protest, judicial power, military service, visual culture, Palestinian citizenship, Haredi belonging, and grassroots action all change under pressure. You see not only institutions, but people: students building fragile spaces of listening, activists reinventing civic responsibility, and a survivor from Beâeri imagining a âSecond Zionist Home.â What makes this book stand out is its rare combination of sharp scholarship and lived experience. All contributors were in Israel during the crisis and war. Together, they offer more than diagnosis. They give you a map of Israelâs fragmentation, its competing moral and political visions, and the unexpected solidarities that may shape its future.
Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Ph.D., is a political scientist at Beit Berl College in Israel. Her research focuses on democratization, civic education, populism, and Japanese and Israeli politics. She is the author of Visions of Democracy and Peace in Occupied Japan (Lexington Books, 2020).
Fany Yuval, Ph.D. (2001), is a professor of Public Policy and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She has published widely on policing and governance, including âTo Compete or Cooperate? Intermunicipal Management of Over Tourismâ (2022).
Michal Hisherik, Ph.D., is a sociologist at Beit Berl College in Israel. She specializes in Israeli society, gender, and democratic education. Her wide range of publications includes âNavigating the Intersecting Divideâ(2026).
Fany Yuval, Ph.D. (2001), is a professor of Public Policy and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She has published widely on policing and governance, including âTo Compete or Cooperate? Intermunicipal Management of Over Tourismâ (2022).
Michal Hisherik, Ph.D., is a sociologist at Beit Berl College in Israel. She specializes in Israeli society, gender, and democratic education. Her wide range of publications includes âNavigating the Intersecting Divideâ(2026).
The book of immediate interest to scholars, graduate students, journalists, libraries, and policy practitioners in Israeli studies, political science, constitutionalism, sociology, social movements, and Middle East studies.