Prof. Yechiam Weitz

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Prof. Yechiam Weitz

March 2023

CURRICULUM VITAE

1. PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Yechiam Weitz

Place and Date of Birth: Jerusalem, Jan. 20, 1951

Marital Status: Married + 3 children

Citizenship and Identity Card Number: Israel 5032246

Home Address: He-Halutz St, 16 Jerusalem 9692113

Home Telephone number: 04-8110889

Office Address and Phone: Dept. of Eretz Yisrael Studies,
Haifa University No. Tel. 04-8240476

Telefax Number: 04 – 8240959

2. HIGHER EDUCATION

Date of Degree	Degree	Name of Institution and Department	Period of Study
1977	B.A.	General History and General Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Degree	1972 – 1977
1981	awarded cum laude M.A	History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	1977 – 1981
	Ph.D.	The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem .	1982 – 1987

3. ACADEMIC RANKS AND TENURE IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Rank/Position	Name of Institution and Department	Dates
lecturer	Eretz - Israel Studies Dept. , University of Haifa	1991
senior lecturer tenure	Eretz - Israel Studies Dept., University of Haifa	1997
AssociatE Professor	Eretz- Israel Studies Dept., University of Haifa	2002

2010 University Haifa Full Professor

4. OFFICES IN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION

The Chair of the Department of Eretz - Israel studies, University of Haifa. (2005 – 2007)

Member of the Editorial Board, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1999 - 2005 )

M. A. Advisor, Department of Eretz - Israel Studies (1999 - 2002 )

The Chair of Eretz-Israel's Studies Center, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and University of Haifa (1997-2001)

B.A. Advisor, Department of Eretz Yisrael Studies (1991 - 1997)

5 . SCHOLARLY POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY

1984-1986 Research Fellow, The Shaul Avigur Inter-University Project for the Study of Illegal Immigration

1988 - 1989 Herzl Fellow, The Institute for the Study of Zionism and the Yishuv, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1991 - Research Fellow at the Seminar on Israeli Society During the 1950's, The Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.

1982 - 1991 Assistant Editor, Yahadut Zemanenu - A Research Annual, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1992 – 2001 Chief Editor, Yahadut Zemanenu - A Research Annual, The
Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Herzl Institute, Haifa University

1996 - Research Fellow, The Ben-Gurion Research Center, Sde-Boker

1997 Research Fellow, The Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

1999 - 2005 Member of the Editorial Board, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi)

2003 Research Follow, Dunov Institution, Leipzig, Germany

.6. Participation in Scholarly Conferences

Subject of Lecture/Discussion/Comments	Place of Conference	Name of Conference	Date
The Leadership of Ben-Gurion And Begin in the 50^th The Attitude of Ben-Gurion towards the Revisionist Movement The Place of Hausner in Eichmann Trial	Ben-Gurion Institute , Sde-Boker Ben-Gurion Institute, Sde-Boker Yad Ben-Zvi	The Leadership in Israel in the 50^th Ben-Gurion- New Look History and Law	1. 2010 1.2009 9.2008
Golda Meir as the 4th Prime Minister of Israel	Yad Ben-Zvi	The Third Decadence of Israel	7.2008
“Ha-Olam Ha-Ze” and Eichmann Trial	University of Haifa	History and Law	2.2008
The Political Dimension Of the Generation	The Hebrew University	1948 Generation	1.2008
Between Menachem Begin and “Yair”	University of Haifa	The History of “Yair”’ (Abraham Stern)	1.2008
Ben-Gurion and Eichmann Trial	Bar-Ilan University	The World of Ben-Gurion	4.2007
Begin’s Disappear in 1951	University of Haifa	15 years to Begin’s Death	3.2007
The Political Arena in 1948	Yad Ben-Zvi	The Civil Society in 1948	5.2006
Kastner Trial in History Perceptive	The World Congress of Jewish Studies	Fifty Years to Kastner’s Murder	8.2005
Sereny as a Political Figure	The Hebrew University	100 years to Enzo Sereny’s Death	3.2005
Adenauer in Ben-Gurion’s eyes	Adenauer Institute	Forty Years to Diplomat Connotation between Germany and Israel	3.2005
“Lavon Affair”- New Sight	University of Haifa	“Lavon Affair”	11.2004
The Place of the “Jeckes” in the Reparation’s Process	Adenauer Institute	“The Jeckes”	5.2004
Kastner Trial" and the Israeli society	Paris	60^thyears after the Holocaust in Hungary	5.2005
From IZL to “Herut Movement”	University of Haifa	60^th to the IZL’s Revolt	3.2004
The Attitude of Begin towards the Holocaust	University of Haifa	Ten Years to Begin’s Death	3.2002
The Struggle on Jabotinsky’s Heritage in the Revisionist Movement	Ben-Gurion University	120 to Jabotinsky’s Death	6.2000
Sharett and the Reparation from Germany	University of Haifa	Moshe Sharett’s Heritage	12.1999
The Involvement of the Intellectuals in the Lavon Affair	The Hebrew University	The Historian and the Society	11.1998
The Law for Punishment of the Nazis and their Collaborators as an Expression of the Israeli Society's Attitude Toward the Holocaust in the 1950’s	Tel-Aviv University	Judging and Judgment in the Shadow of the Holocaust	6.1998
Ben-Gurion’s Final Resignation in 1963	Van Leer	Fifty Years to the State	4.1998
The Debate Concerning the Role of Culture in the State's First Years	The Hebrew University	A Hundred Years to Hebrew Culture	2.1996
The Kastner Trial, the Eichmann Trial and the Israeli Society,	University of Haifa	History and Law	7.1995
Towards an Understanding of the Term of the Beginning of the State of Israel	University of Haifa	A Hundred Years of Historiography of Zionism ,	12.1994
The Awareness Concerning the Holocaust and the Dilemma of Selective Immigration	Bar-Ilan University	From Selective Aliya to Mass Aliya	3.1994
Was Israel Kastner a Hero?	Creighton University	Crisis and Reaction: The Hero in Jewish History	10.1993
Mapai Faces the Election Results to the Third Knesset	The Hebrew University	The World Congress of the Jewish Studies	6.1993
Shaping the Memory of the Holocaust in Israeli Society of the 1950’s	Yad Vashem	The International Scientific Conference of Yad Vashem	6.1993
Regarding the Term “Resistance” in the “Kastner Trial”,	The Ghetto Fighters House	Fifty to Warsaw Ghetto’s Rebellion	3.1993
Kastner Trial and Herut Movement	University of Haifa	The History of the Revisionist Movement	6.1992
Changing Conceptions of the Holocaust: The Kastner Case	Yad Ben-Zvi	Cathedra Discussion	5.1992
Mapai and Kastner Trial	Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies	The Israeli Society in the 50^th	8.1991
New Approaches in the Study of the Revisionist Movement	University of Haifa	The History of the Revisionist Movement	6.1991
The Revisionist Movement and the 4^th Aliya	University of Haifa	The History of the Revisionist Movement	6.1990
The Roots of the Mass Immigration	The Hebrew University	The World Congress of Jewish Studies	8.1989
The Jewish Refugees in the Zionist Policy during the Holocaust,	Yad Ben-Zvi	Cathedra Discussion	5.1989
Yishuv, Diaspora, and Holocaust - Myth and Reality	Van Leer	Mythos and History	1.1989
The Struggle for the Image of 'Hechalutz' in the Labor Movement in Palestine, 1943-1945,	The Ghetto Fighters House	The Youth Movements in the Holocaust	6.1987
The Yishuv's Self-Image and the Reality of the Holocaust,	The Open University	Society and Culture in the Yishuv and the State	6.1986
Mapai's Programs Regarding She'erit Hapletah	Yad Vashem	The International Scientific Conference of Yad Vashem	10.1985

8. SCHOLARSHIPS, PRIZES , RESEARCH GRANTS

PRIZES

1993 - Randolph Braham Prize, University of Haifa

SCHOLARSHIPS

2000 - Research Fellowship, R. Hecte Foundation (2000).

1999 - Research Fellowship, Littauer Foundation, New- York

1998 - Research Scholarship, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

1997 - Research Scholarship, Littauer Founation, New-York

1996 - Research Scholarship, Baden - Wurtemberg Government

The Memorial Foundation‘s Grants

1994 - 1995 (post-doctoral grant).

1993 - 1994 (post-doctoral grant).

1990 - 1991 (post-doctoral grant).

1987 - 1988 (special doctoral scholarship for outstanding students)

1986 - 1987 (doctoral scholarship).

1984 - 1985 (doctoral scholarship).

Yad Vashem’s Grants

1985 (Ph.D. award)

1980 (M.A. award)

9. Courses Taught in Recent Years

Degree	Type of Course	Name of Course	Year
B.A.	Seminar	From Ze’ev Jabotinsky into Menchem Begin – the History of the Revisionist Movement (1925-1948)	2003/4
M.A.	Seminar	The Crucial Decisions in the First Decade in the Israel (The Mass Immigration; The Reparation of West Germany; Sinai War; Eichmann Trail)	2003/4
B.A.	Seminar	From the “Esek Ha-Bish” (The Scandal in Egypt) to “Lavon Affair” (1954-1961)	2004/5
M.A.	Seminar	The Period of Levi Eshkol – the Third Prime Minister (1963-1969)	2004/5
B.A.	Seminar	The Debate about the Partition Plans from Peel Committee to the UN’s Decision (1937-1947)	2005/6
M.A.	Seminar	The Leadership in the Zionist Movement and in Israel (Weizmann, Ben-Gurion, Sharett, Eshkol, Meir, Begin)	2006/7
B.A.	Seminar	The Zionist Left between Socialist and Nationally: from “Gdud Ha-Avoda” (The Workers Battalion) to “Prague Trail”	2007/8
M.A	Seminar	The Poet Natan Alterman as Political Figure	2008/9

10. Supervision of Graduate Students

Details of Publication	Date of Completion / in Progress	Degree	Title of Thesis	Name of Student
	1999	M.A.	The Attitude of the Ha-Kibutz Ha-Memuhad toward Germany, 1945-1959	Tamar Gazit
	2002	M.A	Official Israeli Institutions in Pursuit of Nazi War Criminals, 1945-1960	Tal Fried
	2002	M.A	- Mencham Begin as Leader of Opposition Party (Herut Movement -1949- 1952)	Oren Rosenberg
*Zion* 72/1 (2006), pp. 63-90	2003	M.A.	The Growth of the Myth of the Gallows in the Revisionist Movement	Amir Goldstein
	2003	M.A.	Herut Movement in "Sulam"'s Eyes	Merav Barzily (With Prof. Y. Gelber)
	2004	M.A.	The Political Way of Ahdut Ha-Avoda Party, 1954-1957	Eran Mozes
	2005	M.A.	The Way of Mati Peled (1973-1984 )	Nir Yessod
*Cathedra* 127 (April 2008), pp. 141-168	2005	M.A.	The "General Zionists" Party, 1948-1955	Yaniv Ben-Uzi
*Kivonim Hadasim 14* (June 2006), pp.193-207	2006	M.A.	The Development of the Myth of "Altalena" in “Herut” Movement	Ofira Grovyse – Kovalsky
	2007	M.A.	Between Hannah and Saint Joan – Hannah Senesh : Between the Figure and Image	Rakefet Dayan
	2008	M.A.	Abba Khoushy as Mayor of Haifa (1951-1959)	Uri Schacham
	2009	M.A.	Yitzhak Raphael as the Head of the Alliya Department in the Jewish Agency (1948-1953)	Reut Ben-Arye
	In progress	M.A.	The Place of the Individual in the Kibbutz Movement “Ha-Ichud” (1951-1968)	Gilad Maniv
	In progress	M.A.	The Attitude of Yitzhak Tabenkin towards the Holocaust (1939-1955)	Lior Inbar
Several articles like *Cathedra* 126 (2008), pp. 103-128 Israel 12 (2008), pp. 1-38	2006	Ph. D.	Heurt Movement - Liberal Party Block (Gahal) (1965-1970)	Amir Goldstein
	2008	Ph. D.	Levi Eshkol’s Rise to Power in Mapai (1944-1965)	Arnon Lammfromm
	2009	Ph.D.	The Palestine Office in Budapest (1943-1945	Ayala Nedivi (With Dr. R. Vago)
	2009 Cum launde	Ph. D.	The Myths of the Herut Movement	Ofira Grovyse – Kovalsky (With Prof. M. Azaryahu)
	2012	Ph. D.	Golda Meirson (Meir) as the Minister of the Labor (1949-1956)	Hagai Tsoref
	2015	Ph.D.	The Development of the Peace Process with Egypt (1973-1979)	Luis Fisher
	2016 2017	Ph.D. Ph. D,	How the British Government Decided to end the Mandate in Palestine Nahum Goldmann and Moshe Sharett as Zionist Leaders	Abraham Ben- Meir Noga Kochavi
	2018 2018 2019 2020 2020 2021 2021 2021 IN progress In Progress In Progress In Progress In Progress In Progress	Ph.D. Ph,D. Bar – Ilan Master Ph. D. Master Bar Ilan Ph. D. Ph. D. Ph. D. Ph. D. Bar Ilan Ph. D. Bar Ilan Master Bar-Ilan Ph, D, Master. Ph. D. Ph. D.	The Mista’arvim of the Palmach (1941 – 1949( The Women in Mapai’s Faction In the Knesset – 1949 – 1977 The History of the Kibbutz Lohamei Ha-Getaw’ot in the years 1948 - 1984 Yitzhak Shamir as Political Leader Zevulun Hammer as Religion Leader The Municipal Government in the First years in Israel Natan Yelin Mor as Political Leader The Political Debate about the Military Government in Israel in the years 1948 – 1966 The Attitude of the Herut Movement toward the Religion Yitzhak Sedeh as Military Commander and Leader Dov Yosef as the Military Governor of Jerusalem in the years 1948 - 1949 The History of the Upper Galilee Regional Council The Debate about the election’s system in the first decade in Israel The History of the Holocaust ‘s sites in Israel The History of the Revisionist Movement in USA during the Second World War	Yesha Ekron Leah Klatchko Ayelet Hilman Gil Litman Arye Shilo Nadav Heidecker Arnon Cohen Arye Dayan Elad Nahson Israel Gat Ofer Rigbi Ofer Baharal Adir Benyamini Ayelet Hilman Ran Ben-Yeosafat

Publications

List of Publications

A. Doctoral Dissertation

1) The Attitude of Mapai Towards the Destruction of European Jewry 1939-1945, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 1987, 335 pages (The tutor: Prof. Yisrael Gutman )

B. Scientific Books (Refereed)

Publication

1) Aware but Helpless – Mapai and the Holocaust, 1943 – 1945, Yad Itzhak Ben – Zvi Press, Jerusalem 1994, 221 pp. (Heb.)

2 ) The Man who was Murdered Twice – The Life, Trial and Death of Israel Kasztner,

Keter Publishing House, Jerusalem 1995, 407 pp.(Heb.) (Second publish – 2009)

2a) The Man who was Murdered Twice - The Life, Trial and Death of Israel Kasztner , Yad Vashem Press, Jerusalem 2011, 338 pp.

3) From Underground to Political Party : The Foundation of “Herut Movement”, 1947-1949,

The Ben-Gurion Research Center Press, Sde-Boker 2002 , 261 pp. (Heb.)

4) The First Step to Power – “The Herut Movement”, 1949-1955, Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi Press, Jerusalem 2007 , 246 pp (Heb.)

5) Between Ze‘ev Jabotinsky and Menachem Begin – Essays on the Revisionism Movement,

Magnes Press, Jerusalem 2012, 252 pp. (Heb.)

6) The Life, the Death and Commemoration of Yechiam Weitz - the Commemoration of the Generation of 1948, Carmel Press, Jerusalem 2021 , 304 pp. (Heb.)

Edited Books - Published

1) From Vision to Revision – A Hundred Years of Historiography of Zionism ,

The Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem 1997, 406 pp. (Heb.)

2) Palmach – Sheaves and Sword, The Ministry of Defense Press, Tel-Aviv 2000, 350 pp.

(Heb.)

3) Between the Star of David and the Yellow Star - The Jewish Community and Palestine and

the Holocaust, 1939- 1945, Documents, Yad- Vashem and Yad Ytzhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem 2002, 457 pp. (With Prof. Dina Porat) (Heb.

4)), The Forth Decade of Israel (1987 – 1987 Yad Ben-Zvi Press, Jerusalem 2016, 517 pp. (With Dr. Zvi Zameret) (Heb.),

5) Between the Society and the Individual at the Jewish Settlement in the Land of Israel, University of Haifa, Haifa 2020 , 257 pp. (With Dr, Ofira Gruweis – Kovalsky) (Heb.)

C. Articles in Refereed Journals Publication

1) The Attitude of the Jewish Agency Executive towards the DP’s, May – November 1945 , Yalkut Moreshet 29 )1980), pp. 53-80. (Heb.)

2) The Zionist Movement and the DP’s at the End of the Second World War, Dapim Lecheker Tekufat Hashoah 3 (1984), pp. 139-158. (Heb.)

3) First Contacts Between the Soldiers of the Jewish Brigade and the Survivors, Yahadut Zemanenu 3 (1986), pp. 227-247. (Heb.)

4) The Yishuv's Response to the Destruction of European Jewry, 1942-1943, Studies in Zionism Vol. 8 No. 2 (1987), Pp. 211-222 (Eng.)

4a) Aspects in the Attitude of the Eretz-Israel Towards of European Jewry (1942-1943),

Nurit Gretz (Ed.), Perspectives on Culture and Society in Israel, Tel-Aviv 1988, pp. 74-85. (Heb.)

5) The Yishuv's Self-Image and the Reality of the Holocaust, The
(Eng.) 73-88 .pp ,(48 (Fall 1988 Jerusalem Quarterly

5a) Yalkut Moresht 48 (April 1990); pp. 97-109 (Heb.)

6) The Positions of David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Tabenkin vis-a-vis the Heolocaust of European Jewry, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

(Eng.).Vol. 5, no. 2 (1990), pp. 191-204

6a) Cathedra 51 (Spring 1989), pp. 173- 188 (Heb.)

7) The Struggle for the Image of 'Hechalutz' in the Labor Movement in Palestine, 1943-1945,

Dapim Lecheker Tekufat Hashoah 7 (1989), pp. 147-162. (Heb.)

8) The Jewish Refugees in the Zionist Policy during the Holocaust,

Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 30 No. 2 (April 1994), pp. 351-368. (Eng.)

8a) Cathedra 55 (Spring 1990), pp. 175-162. (Heb.) ׂ

9) 11) Yishuv, Diaspora, and Holocaust - Myth and Reality, Yivo Annual
Vol. 23 (1996), pp. 365-390 . (Eng.)

9a) Heb.: Yahadut Zemanenu 6 (1990), 128- 143.

,(1991) 9b) Yishuv, Golah et Shoah. Mythe et realite, Pardes 14

pp. 172-194 (Fr.)

10) The Revisionist Movement and the Labor Movement: Issues and Points of Reference,

Iyunim Betekumat Yisrael 3 (1993), pp. 349-366. (Heb.)

11) Changing Conceptions of the Holocaust: The Kasztner Case,

Studies in Contemporary Jewry X (1994), pp. 211-230 (Eng.)

11a) Cathedra 55 (1993), pp. 134 - 151. (Heb.)

12) The Herut Movement and the Kasztner Trial

(Eng.).Vol. 8/3 (December 1994), pp. 349-371 Holocaust and Genocide Studies

12a) Yahadut Zemanenu 8 (1993), pp. 243 - 267. (Heb.)

13) Revisionist Criticism of the Yishuv Leadership during the Holocaust, Yad Vashem

Studies, XIII (1993), PP. 369-396 (Eng.)

13a) pp. 271-290 (Heb.)

14) Heb.: The Eichmann Trial as a Turning Point, Dapim Lecheker Tekufat Hashoah 11 (1993), pp. 175 – 189. (Eng.)

15) The Political Dimension of Holocaust Memory in Israel During the

(Eng.).1950s, Israel Affairs Vol. 1, No. 3 (Spring 1995), pp. 129-145

15a) Heb.: Iyunim Be-tkumat Israel, 6 (1996), pp. 271-288. (Heb.)

16) A Party Contend its Failure: Mapai Faces the Election Results to the Third Knesset (1955), Cathedra 77 (October 1995), pp. 124 – 138. (Heb.)

the Begining: Towards an Understanding of the Term 17) The End of

The Beginning of the State of Israel", Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 31, No. 4 (October 1995),

pp. 671 - 690. (Eng.)

18) The Holocaust on Trial: the Kastner Trial, the Eichmann Trial and the Israeli Society, Israel Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Dec. 1996) pp. 1-26 (Eng.)

19) The Law for Punishment of the Nazis and their Collaborators as Image and Reflection of

Public Opinion, Cathedra 82 (December 1996), PP. 153 – 164. (Heb)

20) Ben-Gurions Weg zum "Anderen Deutschland", 1952- 1963, Virteiljahrshefte fuer

Zeitgeschichte , 48/2 (April 2000), 255-280 (De.)

21) The Debate Concerning the Role of Culture in the State's First Years, The Journal of

Israeli History, Vol. 17 No. 2 (1996), 179 - 193. (Eng.)

22) To the Fantasy and Back Again - Ben-Gurion’s First Resignation, 1953,

Iyunim Betekumat Israel 8 (1998), pp. 298-319. (Heb.)

22a) In: Israel Affairs Vol. No. 1-2 (Winter 2002), pp. 59-78. (Eng.)

23) Herut Movement against the Reparations from Germany, Theory and Criticism, Vol. 12-13 (1999), pp. 99-111. (Heb.)

24) The Involvement of the Intellectuals in the Lavon Affair, Zion, Vol. LXIV/III (1999), pp. 349-377.(Heb.)

25) The Path to Wassenaar – The Debate in Israel concerning the Direct Negotiations with Germany, Yad Vashem Studies XXVIII (2000), pp. 311-351 (Eng.)

25a) Heb.: pp. 247- 275.

Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2,26) Ben-Gurion’s Final Resignation in 1963,

(April 2001), pp.131-152 (Eng.)

27) The Herut Movement, Shmuel Tamir and Kastner Trial, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel 11 (2001), pp. 598-616. (Heb.)

28*) A Rival Banner: The Herut Movement and Israel's Relations with Germany, Zion LXVII/4 (2002), Pp. 435-464. (Heb.)

29*) From Etzel to Gahal - The History of the Herut Movement , 1948-1965, Iyunim Bitkumat Israel 13 (2003), pp. 233-254. (Heb.)

30*) The Way into the First "Upheaval" - The History of the Herut Movement,

, (1948-1977 ) , Israel Studies Vol. 10 No. 3 (Fall 2005), pp. 54-86 (Eng.)

(Enlarge of article no. 29)

31*) Between the Poet and the Diplomat: Alerman's Attitude to Israeli-German Relations and his Debate with Moshe Sharett, 1952 , Israel 5 (2004). Pp.99-122 (Heb.)

32*) Moshe Sharett and the Reparations from Germany, 1949-1952, Cathedra 115 (April 2005), Pp. 157-194 .(Heb.)

32a*) , Studies of Contemporary Jewry , Vol 21,(2006) Pp. 213-232.(Eng.)

( 33*) Where’s Menachem Begin? His Disappearance in 1951 and Its Significance, Israel Studies Forum 20 (2) (2005), pp. 115 – 137. (Eng.)

34*) The Passenger in Lod Airport: the “Hjalmer Shacaht Affair” and its Significance, Israel 9 (2006), Pp. 87-108 (Heb.)

35*) The Founding Father and the War Criminal’s Trial: Ben-Gurion and Eichmann

Trial, Yad Vashem Studies 36(1) (2008). Pp. 211-251. (Eng.)

35*) Pp. 181-212 (Heb.)

36*) The “Ha’olam Ha’zhe” between Kastner Trial and the Eichmann Trial, Iyunim Betekumat Israel , Vol. 18 (2008). Pp. 363-387 (Heb.)

37*) Ben-Gurion's Attitude towards the Revisionist Movement and its Offshoots, Iyunim Betekumat Israel, Vol. 19 (2009), pp. 306-344 (Heb.)

38*) In the Name of Six Million Accusers: Gideon Hausner as Attorney-General and His Place in the Eichmann Trial, Israel Studies, Vol. 14/2 (Summer 2009), pp, 26-49. (Eng.)

38a) In Hebrew: Yalkut Moreshet 91 (June 2012), pp, 15- 55

39) The Change in Ben-Gurion’s attitude toward the Herut Movement in during the 1960’s, Israel 17 (2010), pp. pp. 131-166. (Heb,)

40*) Golda Meir, Israel’s Fourth Prime Minister (1969–1974), Middle Eastern Studies No. 47 No, 1 (January 20110, pp. 43-61

41) The Revisionist Movement and Democracy ,Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Vol. 10. No. 2 (July 2011), pp. 185-204

42) Menechem Begin as a Member of the Cabinet (1967 – 1970), Cathedra 141 (2011), pp. 133-158 (Heb,)

43) The Founding Father and the General: David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan,

Middle Eastern Studies , Vol. 47 No. 6 (November 2011), pp. 845-861

44) Prelude to the Eichmann Trial: From the Enactment of the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day Law to the War Criminal Trial, Yad Vashem Studies 40/2 (2012), pp. 115 – 140 (Heb.)

137-171

44a) In English: Yad Vashem Studies 40/2 (2012) , pp. 137-171

45) From Peace in the South to War in the North: Menachem Begin as Prime Minister, 1977-1983, Israel Studies 19/1 (2014), pp. 145-165.

46) Nathan Alterman in the Knesset: The Two Faces of the Poet, Cathedra 152 (2014), pp. 111-138 (Heb.)

47) Pinhas Lavon as a Political Figure, 1949 – 1955, Iyumin Bitkumat Israel 24 (2014), pp. 331 – 362. (Heb)

48) The Reburial of Ze’ev Jabotinsky in the Discussions of Israel’s Cabinet, Cathedra 155 (2015), 161 – 194 (Heb. (With Dr, Ofira Gruweis – Kovalsky) (Heb.)

49 ) Why Was Moshe Sharett Deposed? A Historical Question and a Historiographical Issue, Israel Studies 20/3 (Fall 2015), pp.131-157

50 ( Shaping the New Political Order in Israel, 1965-1967, Israel Studies Review . Vol, 33/3 (Winter 2018), pp. 30-46.

50a) In Hebrew: Cathedra 163 (2017), pp. 1-30

51) The judges Yitzhak Olshen and Meir Shamgar and its Memories, Sha’arei Misphat 9 (2017), pp. 343-361 (Heb.)

52) Two Photos – The Change of the Political Profile of the IDF General Headquarters in the First Year (1948 – 1949), Aley Zait Va-Cherev 18 (2019), pp. 199-220 (Heb.)

54) 1948 as a Turning Point on the Israeli Political Map, Israel Studies , Vol. 24 No. 3 (Fall 2019) pp. 157-179

55) The Trials of the Murders during the Holocaust , Yalkut Moreshet 101 (2020), pp. 69-98. (Heb.)

55a) Eng. Journal for the Study of the Holocaust and Antisemitis 18 (101 ) (2001). pp. 241 – 282

56) “Upheaval” – the Election of the 9^th Knesset (1977) . Zionism Vol. (2021 ), pp. 229-244 (Heb.)

57) Municipal Elections in the Holy City: Campaigns, Results and Coalition Building

in Jerusalem. 1948 – 1973 , Israel Studies 27/3 ( Fall 2022) , p. 143-165

58) Between the Poets Nathan Alterman and Yonatan Ratosh publishing in Alpheem (Heb.)

D. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books Publication

1) The Return of the Kibbutz Hameuchad Emmisaries from Europe 1939-1941, In: Anita Shapira (ed.) Meaasef Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), Tel-Aviv 1990, pp. 108-124.( Heb.)

2) Mapai and the "Kastner Trial", in: S. I. Troen and N. Lucas (Eds.), Israel: The First

Decade of Independence, SUNY Press, New-York 1995, pp. 195-210 (Eng.)

3) The Awareness Concerning the Holocaust and the Dilemma of Selective Immigration, in: Dvora Hacohen (Editor), Ingathering of Exiles – Aliya to the Land of Israel Myth and Reality, The Zalman Shazar, Jerusalem 1998, pp. 233 – 248. (Heb.)

4) The Path to “The Other Germany” - Ben-Gurion’s Attitude towards Germany,

1952–1960, in: Anita Shapira (Ed.), Independence - The First Fifty Years, Jerusalem 1998, pp. 245-266. (Heb.)

5) Debate Concerning the Role of Culture in the State's First Years, Yossi Ben-Artzi and others (eds.), Studies in Geography and History, Jerusalem 1999, pp. 533-550 (Heb.)

6*)Die Juedische Gemeinde in Palastina ("Yishuv")(1934-1948), in:

und J. Nittenberg (Hg.), Flucht in die Freihiet – Oesterreichische Juden in A. Hagen

Palestine und Israel, Wien 2006, pp. 133-153.

7*) Between Dialectical and Unquivovcal Israeli Historiography’s Treatmentof the Yishuv’s and the Zionist Movement’s Attitude to the Holocaust. In: Benny Morris (Editor), Making Israel, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2007, pp. 278-298 (Heb.)

8*) The Attitude of Menchem Begin and the IZL toward the Holocaust in the 40^th , in : Dina Porat (Editor), The Attitude of the Leaders in the Yishuv towards the Holocaust and the

Nazis, 1933-1948, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Press, pp. 379-402. (Heb.)

9*) 1948 as Touring Point in the Israeli Political Arena, in: Mordechai Bar-On and Meir Chazan (Editors), Citizens at War, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Press. Pp. 524-548 (Heb.)

10*) The Attitude of Zeev Jabotinsky and Menchem Begin towards the Democracy, in:

Allon Gal and Moshe Lissak (Editors), In the Democracy Way , Sede-Boqer 2012. Pp. 491 -527 (Heb.)

11*) Menachem Begin as Prime Minister, 1977-1983, in: Abraham Didkin (Editor), From

Herut Movement to The Likud: 1948-2008 , Jerusalem 2012, pp. 194-227 (Heb.)

12) Constitution the First Government (March 1949), in: Mordechai Bar-On and Meir Chazan (Editors), Politics in Wartime, Jerusalem 2014, pp. 127-155 (Heb,)

13) The Negev Committee, in: Mordechai Bar-On, Meir Chazan and Itzhak Greenberg (Editors), Economy at War, Jerusalem 2017, pp. 304-329

14) Introduction , Neil Kaplan and Yaakov Sharett (Editors ), The Diary of Moshe Sharett (1953-1956), Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2019. Volume I. pp. XVII – XXXIV

15) Elections in the Holy City – The elections to the Municipally of Jerusalem, 1950 – 1973, (Forthcoming )

E. Articles in Conference Proceedings Publication

1) The Roots of the Mass Immigration, The Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 1990, pp. 544-548. (Heb.)

2) 12) Mapai's Programs Regarding She'erit Hapletah, in: Yisrael Gutman and Avital Saf

(eds.), She'erit Hapletah, 1944-1948, Jerusalem 1990, pp. 405-418 (Eng.)

2a) pp. 377-365. (Heb.)

Between Warsaw and Budapest: Regarding the Term “Resistance” in the “Kastner Trial”, Dapim Lecheker Tekufat Hashoa 12 (1995), pp. 309–330. (Heb.)

4) Rescuing Hungarian Jewry during the Holocaust,Was Israel Kastner a Hero? Israel Kastner and the Problematics of in: M. Mor (Ed),

.Crisis and Reaction: The Hero in Jewish History , Creighton University Press, Omaha, Nebraska, pp. 269-279 (Eng.)

Shaping the Memory of the Holocaust in Israeli Society of the 5)

.1950's, in Yisrael Gutman (Ed.), Major Changes within the Jewish People in the Wake of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 1996, pp.497-518 (Heb).

5a) Heb.: pp. 473 - 494.

6) The End of the Beginning: Towards an Understanding of the Term Beginning of the State of Israel , in: Yechiam Weitz (Ed.), From Vision to Revision – A Hundred Years of Historiography of Zionism , Jerusalem 1997, pp. 235-256. (Heb.)rs

7) The "Eichmann Trial" and the "Kasztner Trial" and their Influence on Israeli Society, in: D. Gutwein and M. Mautner (Eds,), Law and History, Jerusalem 1999, 395-422. (Heb.)

8*) Die Rolle der Einwanderer aus Mitteleuropa bei der politschen Entscheidung ueber die "Wiedergutmachung", in: M. Zimmermann und Y.Hotam (Hg.), Zweimal Heimat - Die Jeckes zwischen Mitteleurope und Nahost, Frankfurt 2005, pp. 295-303 (De)

9) Yosef Weitz in Lower Galilee, in: Ofira Gruweis – Kovalsky (Editor). Paths of the Past,

Ramat-Gan 2016, pp. 15-32 (Heb,)

10) Yosef Weitz and the Israeli Forest, in: Ofira Gruweis – Kolavsky and Yechiam Weitz (Editors), Between the Society and the Individual at the Jewish Settlement in the Land of Israel, Haifa 2020, pp. 93-120 (Heb.)

F. Other Scientific Publications

1) The Italians attitude towards the Jews during World War II, Massuah 4 (1976),

pp. 163-179.

2) On Man in the Holocaust, Massuah 7 (1979), pp.45-52

3) Himmler in Poznan: Evil Rationalized, Forum 44 (1982), Pp.97-104

4) The Youth Movements in Eretz-Israel and the Holocaust, in: Idan 13 – The Youth Movements (1920-1960), Jerusalem 1989, pp. 172-182.

5) Rescue or Liberation: Contradiction or Completion?, Massuah 18 (April 1990), pp. 32-42

6) On the Peace and the Radical Left, Panim 3 (October 1997), Pp. 35- 43.

7) The "Upheaval" that didn’t was, Panim 9, (Spring 1999) , pp. 91-99

8) The Kastner Trial, David Cheshin and other (Eds.), The Courts of Law, Jerusalem 1999, pp. 50-53.

9.) Moshe Sharett, his Dairy and the Controversy over Moral Norms in Israel’s First Decade, Gesher 139 (Summer 1999), pp. 52-62.

10) The Long Way in the “Upheaval“ - Hruth Movement, 1948-1977, Ha-Umma 138 (Winter 1999) , pp. 62-72

11) Levy Eshkol – The Third Prime Minister of Israel - The Man and the Period , Idan The Second Decade of Israel, Jerusalem 2000, pp. 167-193

12) “The Princess” of Herut Movement, Panim (Winter 2002), pp. 54-61

13*) Golda Meir – the Fourth Prime Minister of Israel - The Woman and Period, Idan –The Third Decade of Israel, Jerusalem 2008, pp. 89-102

Research

My Research's Fields

The Israeli Political
The Israeli Right
The Influence of the Holocaust towards the Israeli Society
Israel- Germany Relationship
Lavon Affairs
The Political Side of Nathan Alterman

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