Strategic Assessment

Today many people characterize the period between the summer of 2000 and the present as a severe “œcrisis” that Israeli society has been confronting. Estimates vary on society’s degree of success in the “œmanagement” of this crisis: some claim that a number of very disturbing signs indicate acute exhaustion in the national morale; others are convinced that the national morale has not really been weakened, but that elements with political interests prefer, for their own reasons, to present a picture of a society about to collapse. Whatever the case, the common sentiment is that now is a period far different from the preceding years.