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In the News

• Center for Israel Studies and Judaic Studies Department are welcoming Hebatalla Taha who will serve as Assistant Professor of Israel Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Israel Studies this fall. She is coming to Binghamton from Cairo, Egypt, and we are very excited for her to become a part of our department. More in our Fall 2022 newsletter issue — and welcome to Heba!
• Google Trekker is great, but ‘Shvil Israel’ deserves more
• Hiking in Israel: Why Are These Trails Different?
• Israel has 6,200 miles of marked hiking trails – but hardly a foreigner on them

Sample Faculty Publications

• "Beyond Gush Emunim: On Contemporary Forms of Messianism among Religiously Motivated Settlers in the West Bank," In Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements, (Marco Allegra, Ariel Handel, and Erez Maggor, eds). Indiana University Press, 2017, 128-147
• "And How Do You Like Israel?" By Allan Arkush.  Jewish Review of Books, Winter 2015.
• "Zionism's Forgotten Father" By Allan Arkush.  Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2014.
• "Competing Concepts of Land in Eretz Israel," Ilan Troen and Shay Rabineau.  Israel Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2, Special Issue: Zionism in the 21st Century (Summer 2014), pp. 162-186.
• “HaKibbutz HaMuchad’s ‘State of Shock’ 1948-1954: Textual Expressions”, Lior Libman, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel (Studies in Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel), 22, 2012, pp. 25-63. (Hebrew)
• “Shadows over the Land Without Shade: Iconizing the Israeli Kibbutz in the 1950s, acting-out post Palestinian-Nakba Cultural Trauma”, Lior Libman, Badiou Studies 1.1, Spring 2012, pp. 119 -134.
• "The Challenge of Selective Conscientious Objection in Israel," Randy Friedman. Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, Vol. 109 (2006), pp. 79-99.