IsraelStudies

Volume 22 Number 2 Summer 2017

Special Section:

RELIGION AND ETHNICITY

IsraelStudies

Volume 22 Number 2 Summer 2017

EditorsS. Ilan Troen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / Brandeis University

Natan Aridan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Edna Oxman, Copy Editor

Editorial BoardGannit Ankori, Brandeis University

Arnold J. Band, University of California, Los AngelesUri Bialer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Michael Brenner, American University, Washington D.C./ Ludwig Maximilian University, MunichDonna Robinson Divine, Smith CollegeEliezer Don-Yehiya, Bar-Ilan UniversityAlan Dowty, University of Notre DameJonathan Gribetz, Princeton University

Daniel Kurtzer, Princeton UniversityPnina Lahav, Boston University

Esther Meir, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevYehudah Mirsky, Brandeis University

Amos Oz, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevDerek Penslar, Oxford University

Shulamit Reinharz, Brandeis UniversityArieh Saposnik, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Gabi Sheffer, The Hebrew University of JerusalemMoshe Shemesh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Ofer Shiff, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevColin Shindler, S.O.A.S, University of London

Russell A. Stone, American University, Washington, D.C.Mohammed S. Wattad, UCI, Irvine

Chaim I. Waxman, Hadassah College, Jerusalem/Rutgers UniversityAlex Weingrod, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Yael Zerubavel, Rutgers UniversityRonald Zweig, New York University

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ContentsVolume 22 Number 2 Summer 2017

Special Section: Religion And EthnicityLike a Phoenix: The Renaissance of Sephardic/Mizrahi Identity in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s

Avi Picard 1Philoumenos of Jacob’s Well: The Birth of a Contemporary Ritual Murder Narrative

David Gurevich and Yisca Harani 26William James in the Holy Land: Religious Experience and Secular-Believer Jewish Women in Israel

Hagar Lahav 55“Belfast is Not Here”: The Israeli Press and the Good Friday Agreement

Aidan Beatty 78

ArticlesThe Kibbutz and the Development Town: The Economic Dimension of Their Reciprocal Relations—The Case of the Hula Valley

Amir Goldstein 96Kibbutz Under Fire: Back to the Days of Sickle and Bayonet

Zeev Drory, Eyal Lewin, Eyal Ben-Ari 121The Fiscal Path to the State of Israel: Social Policy and State Building in the Yishuv during the Mandate

Michal Koreh and Daniel Béland 145What is Israeli in Israeli Art? A Psychoanalytic Solution

Efrat Biberman 169

The Cover: Machairas Monastery (Cyprus), a painting of Philoumenos’ martyrdom as photographed in 2008. Above in Greek reads: “Jacob’s Well St. Philoumenos,” at the bottom reads: “The Martyrdom of St. Philoumenos of Cyprus.” See David Gurevich and Yisca Harani, “Philoumenos of Jacob’s Well: The Birth of a Contemporary Ritual Murder Narrative.”Courtesy of Daniela Schwarz, Tel-Aviv