1st Edition

Israel at the Polls 2013 Continuity and Change in Israeli Political Culture

Edited By Eithan Orkibi, Manfred Gerstenfeld Copyright 2016
146 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

The 2013 elections took place less than two years after the overwhelming wave of social protests of summer 2011. At first, the election campaign did not raise much public interest, but the emergence of new players and young political forces energized the political race. Polls conducted throughout the campaign greatly deviated from the final results, which eventually enabled Prime Minister... Read more

1. The Run-Up to Israel’s 2013 Elections: A Political History  Manfred Gerstenfeld

2. The Peculiar Victory of The National Camp in the 2013 Israeli Election  Arie Perliger and Eran Zaidise

3. ‘Something new begins’ – religious Zionism in the 2013 elections: from decline to political recovery  Anat Roth

4. An uneasy stability: the Haredi parties’ emergency campaign for the 2013 elections  Nissim Leon

5. The political transformation of the Israeli ‘Russian’ street in the 2013 elections  Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin

6. The Transmigration of Media Personalities and Celebrities to Politics: The Case of Yair Lapid  Rafi Mann

7. ‘New politics’, new media – new political language? A rhetorical perspective on candidates’ self-presentation in electronic campaigns in the 2013 Israeli elections  Eithan Orkibi

8. The 2013 Israeli elections and historic recurrences  Eyal Lewin

Biography

Eithan Orkibi is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ariel University, and a member of the ADARR (Analysis of Discourse, Argumentation and Rhetoric) research group, Tel Aviv. He specializes in political culture, discourse analysis and persuasive communication.

Manfred Gerstenfeld is the Emeritus Chairman of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Israel. He is the former editor of The Jewish Political Studies Review, and has published twenty-three books covering diverse areas such as anti-Semitism, Judaism and the environment, contemporary history, and Jewish public affairs.