POL 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chaim Weizmann, Startup Company, The Jewish Home
12 Sep 2018
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Started with the idea of a homeland (muhammad ali jinnah, david ben-gurion) Jewish people were stateless, in the diaspora of emphasis on military prowess. For israel, all the people who live there came from different regions and have different religious intensities. Israel is parliamentary not presidential, so becomes study of its leaders to study israel: netenyahu been pm since 2009, very unusual since israel has had a lot of turmoil and changeover. Israel small, but a startup company, become very economically important: naftali bennet leads political party the jewish home, both bennet & netenyahu were military special ops, shows israel has a lot of military political power people. First section: determinates: first theme of identity, zionism important, the zionist movement founded by theodor herzl, second theme of legitimacy. Involves political and religious parties, intersection religion and politics, development, process and institutions, Israel founded by very egalitarian idea, socialist (kibbutz)
