Publications on Societal Resilience and the Israeli Society

Keywords: Civilian home front

Israel – home front Keywords: Civilian home front

Keywords: Civilian home front

The discourse on the root causes of the Boko Haram domestic terrorism group rages on in Nigeria, as extremists continue to lure destitute militants to their cause. Counter-terrorism needs to focus its efforts on eradicating the breeding grounds for these impoverished sympathizers. A new strategy and a new method should be adopted to prevent the threat of domestic terrorism. Fighting domestic terrorism with human development, specifically social and economic development, should emerge as a new public narrative and long-term objective...

Meir Elran suggests that robust intelligence, strong resistance and protection measures, with enhanced societal resilience, are key lessons that Europe can take from Israel’s counter-terrorism experience. For full article see in Crisis Response Journal

In recent years, activity in cyberspace has developed at a rapid and intense pace. In 2002, the government of Israel addressed this challenge by establishing the National Information Security Authority. Since then, Israel’s functional continuity has become even more dependent on technology in general, and on cyberspace activity in particular. As a consequence of this dependence, the threats to Israel’s functional continuity have intensified. Numerous states and enemies are systematically developing capabilities and acting against...

The instability racking the Middle East of the past five years shows little sign of abatement, and every new conflict or war – between states and within states – constitutes another link in the chain of social, ideological, political, and territorial upheavals sweeping the region. With the Middle East thus having become a region marked primarily by violence, regional and international leaders must focus their attention on both defensive and offensive measures designed to reduce the potential for damage and destruction inherent in...

The nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1, banning Iran from developing nuclear arms and limiting its ability to do so, was generally viewed by the Israeli government and the public as a bad development. Nonetheless, the deal might postpone the realization of the nuclear threat to Israel by ten to fifteen years at least, and therefore can offer a genuine sense of relief as it directly affects the map of Israeli security threats in the coming years. This is not the only area in which there is a significant chance of reducing the...

This study examines and measures the social resilience of the residents of the Gaza Strip area during Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014 and thereafter. We provide an overview of the concept of resilience, focusing on the phenomenon of bouncing back towards recovery following the functional decline as a result of stressful events. Social resilience is measured here by three behavioral yardsticks: demographics and evacuation, therapeutics and education, and employment and economics. We chose two regional councils to represent...

Following the March 17, 2015 elections, a right wing government with the addition of one centrist party is expected, even though the center-left bloc won 63 Knesset seats – a majority of the vote. The reason is embedded in Israel’s political structure, whereby not every party is willing or able to sit with every other party in a coalition. In addition, three developments may reflect future electoral trends. (1) The increased power of the two large parties: for the first time in years, the two large parties are close to a...

In late 2014, the Israeli domestic picture changed dramatically as a result of the disbanding of Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government and the Knesset’s decision to dissolve itself and hold general elections on March 17, 2015. Early elections prior to the conclusion of the Knesset’s legal term in office is nothing new in Israel and is actually typical of the past two decades. The forthcoming early elections, however, constitute a particularly unusual phenomenon on the Israeli political landscape, as the dissolution of the Knesset...