Minorities in the Israeli military, 1948-58 / Randall S. Geller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geller, Randall S., 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel--Minorities.

Israel.

Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel.

Sociology, Military.

History.

Minorities.

Armed Forces.

Israel--Armed Forces--Minorities.

Minorities--Israel--History--20th century.

Sociology, Military--Israel--History--20th century.

Armed Forces--Minorities.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 209 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

This study examines majority-minority relations in Israel during the state's formative decade through the prism of its military forces. It analyzes how the leadership balanced its disparate commitments and argues that the state's social, political, and strategic decisions regarding non-Jewish minorities reverberate to the present.

Contents:

David Ben-Gurion and the dilemma of Arab service in the Israel Defense Forces

The background to and formation of the Minorities Unit in 1948

Druze and Jews after the transition to statehood, fall 1948 to early 1949

The Druze and the state, 1949-53, culminating in a short-term Druze conscription plan

An abortive effort to draft the entire Arab population, 1954

The Druze draft, 1956

The rise and demise of a Christian Arab unit

Bedouin service in the IDF, 1948-57

The recruitment and conscription of the Circassian community into the Israel Defense forces, 1948-58.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Geller, Randall S., 1969- author. Minorities in the Israeli military, 1948-58

ISBN:

9781498541633

1498541631

OCLC:

979567587