scholarly journals The Ayalon River and the Relationships between the Authorities, 1948-1965

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 124-143
Author(s):  
Assaf Selzer
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Unsuccessful Attempt ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Israeli Government ◽  
International Water ◽  
Water Issues ◽  
State Of Israel

During the first two decades following the establishment of the State of Israel, the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality had to deal with flooding from the Ayalon River. By means of constructing a series of walls, the route of the river and its depth were altered in an unsuccessful attempt to solve the problem. It became clear that a more drastic solution was necessary. Water issues and rivers in particular provide a unique opportunity to study the underlying relationships between local and central governments and between local and international water experts. In this article, I compare the different interests of those who were involved in dealing with the flooding from the Ayalon and the motivations behind their actions. As part of the solution to the Ayalon flooding problem, an infrastructure company was established in 1965 as a partnership between the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality and the Israeli government. The main task of the company was to construct a highway along the route of the river, thus ironically providing a drastic solution to the problem.

scholarly journals The Process of Ownership Separation in Co-Owned Companies of the Tel Aviv Municipality and the State of Israel. A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Avi Ketko ◽  
Maria Viorica Bedrule-Grigoruță
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
The State ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Israeli Government ◽  
State Of Israel

AbstractProfessional literature deals extensively with commitment (management and personal commitment), trust between partners and transparency as critical success factors in collaboration in general and in collaboration among public entities in particular. The State of Israel and the Municipality of Tel Aviv owned seven joint subsidiaries with different holdings in each of the companies. The Israeli government made a decision to sell the State's shares in these companies to the Tel Aviv Municipality. In 2016, a long process, of over eight years of negotiations, between the parties on a commercial basis, came to an end. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the implementation of principles of commitment, trust and transparency in practice led to the successful conclusion of the process. The research method was qualitative research, using semi-structured interviews, in the process where involved 12 people.

Ha’am, Ahad (1856–1927)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeev Levy
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
Main Road ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
The People ◽  
Hebrew Culture ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Culture Tradition ◽  
Course Of Study

Ahad Ha’am (Asher Hirsch Ginzberg) was one of the most remarkable Jewish thinkers and Zionist ideologists of his time. Born in the province of Kiev in the Ukraine, he moved in 1884 to Odessa, an important centre of Hebrew literary activity. In 1907 he moved on to London, and in 1922 settled in the young city of Tel Aviv. He attended the universities of Vienna, Berlin and Breslau but did not pursue any regular course of study and was primarily an autodidact. Never a systematic philosopher, Ginzberg, who wrote in Hebrew and adopted the pen name Ahad Ha’am, ‘one of the people’, became a first-rate and widely read essayist and polemicist. He engaged in controversies over the practical problems of the early Jewish settlements in Palestine, his opposition to Theodore Herzl’s drive to create a Jewish state, and numerous problems of Hebrew culture, tradition and literature. No single principle or theme stands out as the guiding idea of his thought. Indeed, his ideas are sometimes inconsistent. But his writings preserve the flavour of his values and commitments. Although his outlook never became the main road of Zionist ideology, its impact on Zionist thought was powerful, especially after the establishment of the State of Israel.

Barry Frydlender's Pitzutziya

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
adam rothschild
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
The State ◽  
Convenience Store ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
True Story ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Packaged Food ◽  
State Of Israel

After becoming disillusioned with the shortcomings of his medium, Israeli artist Barry Frydlender gave up on photography in the early nineties. Following a hiatus, he became one of the first to utilize breakthroughs in digital technology. Embracing the inability of conventional photography to convey a true story or a whole reality, Frydlender began to create his own. Pitzutziya, a work from 2002, depicts a small Tel Aviv convenience store, stocked with everything from local seeds and nuts to imported packaged food and liquor. By photographing the scene piece by piece over a period of time and later digitally composing a large seamless whole, Frydlender transforms the everyday into the essential. The myriad products and the two young women appearing in the picture, create an allegorical history of the state of Israel, addressing issues of ethnicity, demographics, and economics.

A “Jewish State…to Be Known as the State of Israel”: Notes on Israeli Legal Historiography

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pnina Lahav
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Israel

In 1953 a musical titledThe Adventures of Nasseradinopened in Tel Aviv. One of its tunes, the “Song of Law,” had music and lyrics so appealing that overnight it became the most popular song in Israel. The subject of the lyric was a tyrant, the Emir of the Kingdom of Buchara. Two brothers were arguing over a pot, and the Emir in his capacity as judge, presided over their trial. His decree: plaintiff and defendant should be executed and the pot thrown into the royal treasury.

Criticizing Israel Is Not Antisemitism

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Bindman
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The State ◽  
Israeli Government ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Policies And Practices

Antisemitism is hostility to Jews as Jews, but defining antisemitism is complicated by Zionism and the existence of the State of Israel. The fundamental right to freedom of expression is threatened by the misuse of a definition of antisemitism and claimed examples of antisemitic conduct that encourage confusion between antisemitism and criticism of the policies and practices of the Israeli government and its institutions. The right to express criticism and to debate such policies and practices must not be suppressed by reliance on unsubstantiated claims of antisemitism.

The De-Arabization of West Jerusalem 1947-50

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Krystall
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Israeli Government ◽  
Jewish Immigrants ◽  
State Of Israel

This article describes the progressive depopulation of the Arab neighborhoods of West Jerusalem following the outbreak of the fighting in late 1947. By the time the State of Israel was proclaimed on 15 May 1948, West Jerusalem already had fallen to Zionist forces. Quoting from eyewitness accounts, the author recounts the widespread looting that followed the Arab evacuation and the settlement of Jewish immigrants and Israeli government officials in the Arab houses. By the end of 1949, all of West Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods had been settled by Israelis.

B'nai B'rith on the European continent after World War Two

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-126
Author(s):  
Hans Levy
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Jewish Organization ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
European Continent ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Second World

The focus of this paper is on the oldest international Jewish organization founded in 1843, B’nai B’rith. The paper presents a chronicle of B’nai B’rith in Continental Europe after the Second World War and the history of the organization in Scandinavia. In the 1970's the Order of B'nai B'rith became B'nai B'rith international. B'nai B'rith worked for Jewish unity and was supportive of the state of Israel.

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