Israeli Institutions at the Crossroads

Raphael Cohen-Almagor is a Senior Lecturer and Chairperson of Library and Information Studies at the Department of Communication, University of Haifa.   Raphael Cohen-Almagor received his doctorate in politics from Oxford University (1991). In 1999-2000 he was awarded the Fulbright-Yitzhak Rabin Award and was a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law and Department of Communication. He was Chairperson of Library and Information Studies (2000-2003) and is Assoc. Prof. at the Department of Communication, University of Haifa, where he directs the Center for Democratic Studies. Raphael is the author of The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance (1994), Speech, Media and Ethics (2001, 2005), The Right to Die with Dignity (2001), and Euthanasia in the Netherlands (2004). He also wrote two poetry books: Middle Eastern Shores (1993), and Travels (forthcoming). Raphael is also the editor of several books, among them Basic Issues in Israeli Democracy (1999, Hebrew); Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin (2000), Medical Ethics at the Dawn of the 21st Century (2000), and Challenges to Democracy: Essays in Honour and Memory of Isaiah Berlin (2000). His newest book The Scope of Tolerance will be published by Routledge in 2006.

1. Introduction 2. The Crisis of Governance: Government Instability and the Civil Service 3. Citizenship Education in Israel - A Jewish-Democratic State 4. The Political-Military Complex: The IDF's Influence Over Policy towards the Palestinians since 1987 5. On the Need for a Constitution 6. Presidency in Israel: Formal Authority and Personal Experience 7. The Government 8. The Knesset 9. The Attorney General in Israel: A Delicate Balance of Powers and Responsibilities in a Jewish and Democratic State 10. Particularist Considerations and the Absence of Strategic Assessment in the Israeli Public Administration: The Role of the Comptroller 11. The Press Council 12. Israeli Institutions at the Crossroads