1st Edition
Israeli Football Culture, Politics, and Identity
Introduction: Older than the state: ninety years of Israeli football through the looking glass
Ilan Tamir and Yair Galily
1. The establishment of the Eretz Israel football association
Haim Kaufman and Ilan Tamir
2. The changing face of fandom: the case of Israeli football supporters
Yair Galily and Tal Samuel-Azran
3. ‘We want to be like Europe, but we are struggling to survive’: Professional Football Training for Israeli children since the 2000s
Shlomit guy
4. "It’s not exactly soccer and the Players aren’t exactly women": Contemporary attitudes to women’s football in Israel
Ilan Tamir
5. Getting lost in the zone of transition: analyzing the lifecycle of Israeli soccer stars in becoming coaches
Assaf Lev and Shlomo Weinish
6. Built heritage or lost nostalgia: Israeli fans and the conservation of sports venues
Orr Levental
7. Corruption among sport officials in early Israeli football
Udi Carmi and Moshe Levy
Biography
Ilan Tamir is Professor at the School of Communication, Ariel University, Israel, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University.
Yair Galily is Behavioral Science Professor and Senior Lecturer in Communication and Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya; Senior Fellow at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy (ICT); Founder and head of the research unit at the Israel Football Association; and a member of the Club Licensing Committee of the European Football Association (UEFA).
