Yoram Peri
University of Maryland, Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Faculty Member
- Professor Yoram Peri was Director of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies from 2009 until June 30, 2020 and is... moreProfessor Yoram Peri was Director of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies from 2009 until June 30, 2020 and is the Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies. A former political advisor to the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, founder and former head of Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society at Tel Aviv University, and former Editor-in-chief of the Israeli daily, Davar.Prof. Peri published extensively on Israeli society, military, media and politics. Among his publications are Generals in the Cabinet Room (U.S. Institute of Peace Press), The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin (Stanford University Press), and Between Battles and Ballots: Israel Military in Politics (Cambridge University Press). His book Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel was published by Stanford University Press in 2004, and in October 2005 he published his latest book (in Hebrew) Brothers at War: Rabin’s Assassination and the Cultural war in Israel. For this book he was granted the 2006 award by the Presidents and Prime Ministers memorial council. His latest book, Generals in the Cabinet Room: How the Military Shapes Israeli Policy, was published in May 2006 by the United States Institute of Peace. The book has been selected as an outstanding book and as one of the best of the best by the Association of American University Press, in 2007. Since 2011 he is also the editor of Israel Studies Review, the flagship academic journal of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS).edit
The London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews established the first Western hospital in Jerusalem in the middle of 19th century. It was built for the benefit of the Jewish population of the city, and it transposed the... more
The London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews established the first Western hospital in Jerusalem in the middle of 19th century. It was built for the benefit of the Jewish population of the city, and it transposed the Holy Land, from a medical point of view, to the modern era. The huge archives of the London Society in England contain many documents dealing with its activity. One document, revealed here for the first time, describes the content of the medicinal preparations held in the stores of the British hospital and dispensary in Jerusalem on July 21 1857. The list, presented here in full, is impressive in its length, containing hundreds of medicinal substances originating from plants, minerals, and animals that were used in the Western world at the time. Most of the chemicals in the list had never previously appeared in any published historical source concerning Palestine. The list is thus one of the first pieces of evidence of modern medical and pharmacological activities in the Holy Land. A comparison of the list with several other 19th century lists of medicinal substances found in professional literature revealed that it contains most of the known medicinal substances of that time. Compared with medieval documents, or lists of traditional substances compiled a few years earlier, the 1857 list is richer and contains new substances and preparations originating in the New World (America) and chemicals unknown in the region before. It is evidence of the change that occurred in the field of pharmacology owing to the penetration of the modern medicine into the Holy Land. The 1857 list contains 268 substances: 147 medicinal preparations of plant origin, 117 preparations of chemical and mineral origin, and only four of animal origin.
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... The media were a major factor in the process of shaping Yoram Peri is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University ... It was at this rally that the widow of the assassinated prime minister also... more
... The media were a major factor in the process of shaping Yoram Peri is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University ... It was at this rally that the widow of the assassinated prime minister also crowned the successor, Shimon Peres. ...
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... 27. A partial list of these journalists includes Erez Tal, Avri Gilad, Allon ben David, Geulah Even, Yaron Dekel, Tal Berman, Yaakov Eilon, Yonit Levy, Udi Segal, Elana Dayan, Gil Tamari, Alon Shalev, Rafi Man, Chilik Sarid, Arieh... more
... 27. A partial list of these journalists includes Erez Tal, Avri Gilad, Allon ben David, Geulah Even, Yaron Dekel, Tal Berman, Yaakov Eilon, Yonit Levy, Udi Segal, Elana Dayan, Gil Tamari, Alon Shalev, Rafi Man, Chilik Sarid, Arieh Golan, and Davi Gilboa. ...
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Media‐security relations in Israel have changed over the past 50 years from deferential journalism and subordination to competition and finally, in the nineties, to the confrontational model. In this paper the causes of these changes are... more
Media‐security relations in Israel have changed over the past 50 years from deferential journalism and subordination to competition and finally, in the nineties, to the confrontational model. In this paper the causes of these changes are examined. They include technological innovations and new professional orientations, the decline of the security ethos, the depletion of stateness and the emergence of civil
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... Page 4. 30 Tamar Liebes and Yoram Peri Labor tried to use its advantage of being in power to marginalize the advertis-ing campaign. Labor's campaign consisted of initiatives such as Prime Minister Peres's trips to the United... more
... Page 4. 30 Tamar Liebes and Yoram Peri Labor tried to use its advantage of being in power to marginalize the advertis-ing campaign. Labor's campaign consisted of initiatives such as Prime Minister Peres's trips to the United States and to a number of Arab states. ...
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David Greenblum, From the Heroism of the Spirit to the Sanctification of Power: Power and Heroism in Religious Zionism between 1948 and 1968 (Tel Aviv: Open University, 2016). Uri S. Cohen, The Security Style and the Hebrew Culture of War... more
David Greenblum, From the Heroism of the Spirit to the Sanctification of Power: Power and Heroism in Religious Zionism between 1948 and 1968 (Tel Aviv: Open University, 2016). Uri S. Cohen, The Security Style and the Hebrew Culture of War (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2017). Dan Arev, Dying to Watch: War, Memory, and Television in Israel 1967–1991 (Tel Aviv: Resling, 2017). Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, Tel Aviv Was Also Once an Arab Village: The Normalization of the Territories in Israeli Discourse, 1967 (Cambridge, MA: Israel Academic Press, 2017). Nitza Ben-Dov, The Life of War: On the Military, Revenge, Loss, and War Consciousness in Israeli Prose (Jerusalem: Schocken Books, 2016). Haya Milo, Songs Through the Barrel of the Gun: Israeli Soldiers’ Folk Songs (Tel Aviv: Open University, 2017).
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... A more detailed version of the research, and a more detailed list of sources, appears in Yoram Peri, 'The Israeli Military and Israel's ... A short time after Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded ShimonPeres as prime minister in... more
... A more detailed version of the research, and a more detailed list of sources, appears in Yoram Peri, 'The Israeli Military and Israel's ... A short time after Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded ShimonPeres as prime minister in 1996 it became evident just how dependent the political ...
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967 a profound transformation has occurred in political- military relations in Israel. National consensus in the security sphere has collapsed. The authority and legitimacy of the political leadership have been... more
Since the Six-Day War in 1967 a profound transformation has occurred in political- military relations in Israel. National consensus in the security sphere has collapsed. The authority and legitimacy of the political leadership have been shaken, and the army has acquired direct political roles, mainly through the establishment of a military government in the occupied territories. These developments have changed the early pattern of a nonpolitical citizen army, subordinate to the civil authorities, to a new pattern of political- military partnership. The intense politicization of the Israel Defence Forces undermined their former elevated and sacred position and made them a focus of public controversy. Thus, while Israel has remained a democracy, in spite of the protracted war, its armed forces have taken over functions far exceeding those of other professional armies in similar Western democracies.
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Since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995, a fierce struggle have taken place over his commemoration. This is a mnemonic dispute between interpretive communities about the process of commemoration... more
Since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995, a fierce struggle have taken place over his commemoration. This is a mnemonic dispute between interpretive communities about the process of commemoration and the forms of remembrance. The ...
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Page 1. Tekpopulism Page 2. Page 3. Telepopulism Media and Politics in Israel Yoram Peri STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD, CALIFORNIA ZOO4 Page 4. Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2004 by ...
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Few names are more closely associated with organizational learning than those of Argyris and Schön. Nevertheless, their impact on the literature of organizational learning has been fairly tenuous. Examination of references to Argyris and... more
Few names are more closely associated with organizational learning than those of Argyris and Schön. Nevertheless, their impact on the literature of organizational learning has been fairly tenuous. Examination of references to Argyris and Schön shows that they are frequently drafted to support an author’s or authors’ arguments rather than to be followed or critiqued (“Chic”). From an analysis of Argyris and Schön’s conceptual framework, and of their use of this framework in their consulting practice, the author suggests that the superficiality of Argyris and Schön’s influence is due to their focusing on important, attractive, but hard-to-realize aspects of organizational learning (“Mystique”). As a result, the literature overlooks some important and more feasible substantive lessons that may be learned from Argyris and Schön (“Misconception”).
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:In the summer of 2005 the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) carried out one of its largest military campaigns in many years. Fifty thousand soldiers were sent to confront an adversary numbering ten thousand. But unlike the past, the adversary... more
:In the summer of 2005 the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) carried out one of its largest military campaigns in many years. Fifty thousand soldiers were sent to confront an adversary numbering ten thousand. But unlike the past, the adversary was not an external enemy. It was a section of the Israeli population. Only once before had an Israeli government ordered soldiers to bring Israeli citizens to heel. That was in 1951, three years after the establishment of the state, when the IDF broke a seamen's strike in the port of Haifa. The traumatic effect of this step on the young society was so profound that no subsequent government ventured to use the military in internal disputes among Jews. Never—until the summer of 2005.
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The frequent referencing of service to the public interest as a core professional journalistic value raises the question of the correspondence between the perception of journalists and the public as to what constitutes good and bad... more
The frequent referencing of service to the public interest as a core professional journalistic value raises the question of the correspondence between the perception of journalists and the public as to what constitutes good and bad journalism. In this study, a sample of Israeli journalists and a sample of the Israeli public were asked a series of questions about the core values and practices of journalism. Results suggest four major conclusions: first, Israeli journalists have a clear, relatively uniform perception of what constitutes worthy journalism. Second, journalists and the public differ in the degrees of significance they assign to various journalistic norms and practices. Third, the public is slightly more positive in its overall assessment of the Israeli media in comparison with the journalists. Finally, the two general assessments are constituted by different, or even opposing, components. � journalistic values � public opinion Journalists are often depicted as 'watc...
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Media‐security relations in Israel have changed over the past 50 years from deferential journalism and subordination to competition and finally, in the nineties, to the confrontational model. In this paper the causes of these changes are... more
Media‐security relations in Israel have changed over the past 50 years from deferential journalism and subordination to competition and finally, in the nineties, to the confrontational model. In this paper the causes of these changes are examined. They include technological innovations and new professional orientations, the decline of the security ethos, the depletion of stateness and the emergence of civil
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This article examines whether the inauguration of peace between countries has a significant effect on how the news media cover the other side. It is argued that, due to the nature of news, leaders will generally find it easier to mobilize... more
This article examines whether the inauguration of peace between countries has a significant effect on how the news media cover the other side. It is argued that, due to the nature of news, leaders will generally find it easier to mobilize the media for conflict than for peace. ...
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... Page 4. 30 Tamar Liebes and Yoram Peri Labor tried to use its advantage of being in power to marginalize the advertis-ing campaign. Labor's campaign consisted of initiatives such as Prime Minister Peres's trips to the United... more
... Page 4. 30 Tamar Liebes and Yoram Peri Labor tried to use its advantage of being in power to marginalize the advertis-ing campaign. Labor's campaign consisted of initiatives such as Prime Minister Peres's trips to the United States and to a number of Arab states. ...
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... The daily Davar (June 3, I983) carried the summing up of journalist Yoram Peri, "Forty Years of Peace?": ... Ofra Yeshua in Maariv (June 26, I983) noted the service to American interests Israel can now render, but... more
... The daily Davar (June 3, I983) carried the summing up of journalist Yoram Peri, "Forty Years of Peace?": ... Ofra Yeshua in Maariv (June 26, I983) noted the service to American interests Israel can now render, but suggested that it was not coercion but choice which placed Israel in ...
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Since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995, a fierce struggle have taken place over his commemoration. This is a mnemonic dispute between interpretive communities about the process of commemoration... more
Since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995, a fierce struggle have taken place over his commemoration. This is a mnemonic dispute between interpretive communities about the process of commemoration and the forms of remembrance. The ...
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... 27. A partial list of these journalists includes Erez Tal, Avri Gilad, Allon ben David, Geulah Even, Yaron Dekel, Tal Berman, Yaakov Eilon, Yonit Levy, Udi Segal, Elana Dayan, Gil Tamari, Alon Shalev, Rafi Man, Chilik Sarid, Arieh... more
... 27. A partial list of these journalists includes Erez Tal, Avri Gilad, Allon ben David, Geulah Even, Yaron Dekel, Tal Berman, Yaakov Eilon, Yonit Levy, Udi Segal, Elana Dayan, Gil Tamari, Alon Shalev, Rafi Man, Chilik Sarid, Arieh Golan, and Davi Gilboa. ...
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... A more detailed version of the research, and a more detailed list of sources, appears in Yoram Peri, 'The Israeli Military and Israel's ... A short time after Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded ShimonPeres as prime minister in... more
... A more detailed version of the research, and a more detailed list of sources, appears in Yoram Peri, 'The Israeli Military and Israel's ... A short time after Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded ShimonPeres as prime minister in 1996 it became evident just how dependent the political ...
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During the week following the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin in November 1996, the Israeli media were confronted with a liminal situation created by the unprecedented political violence. Among the problems that emerged were... more
During the week following the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin in November 1996, the Israeli media were confronted with a liminal situation created by the unprecedented political violence. Among the problems that emerged were potential social disintegration and anomie. One of the major factors in re-establishing social integration was the reconstruction of Rabin's biography by the media as the collective
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... provide unique insight into the role played by military intelligence assessments and senior military officers in ... FOREWORD xi tracing the military's shift from being a proponent of the peace process to ... In particular, Peri... more
... provide unique insight into the role played by military intelligence assessments and senior military officers in ... FOREWORD xi tracing the military's shift from being a proponent of the peace process to ... In particular, Peri details how the mili-tary's changing view of Yasser Arafat and ...
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The concept and process of the empowerment of women encompass a wide range of actions and issues, among them enhancing awareness and increasing access to economic, social and political resources. The organization of women into groups is a... more
The concept and process of the empowerment of women encompass a wide range of actions and issues, among them enhancing awareness and increasing access to economic, social and political resources. The organization of women into groups is a key element of the process of empowerment, as groups provide a basis for solidarity, strength and collective action. In this context, a study was conducted in the Madurai district of Tamil Nadu to assess the impact of self-help groups (SHGs) led by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the empowerment of rural women. The effectiveness of such groups was measured using Bennett's Hierarchy. Following multi-stage random sampling, data were collected from 180 SHG members of the most prominent NGO, the Association of Sarva Seva Farms (ASSEFA). The authors' analysis shows that the SHG members were more empowered psychologically, socially, economically and politically than other women.