Discuss the processes of immigration, settlement, and absorption in the State of Israel (or the Yishuv) during ONE specific time period (select from among the periods listed below). b) Explore the above processes in regard to TWO of the domains listed below. c) Discuss ways that the above processes have shaped and been shaped by the domains you have selected. d) Narrow the focus of your discussion to a particular issue or topic that is relevant to the above processes.
• Discuss ONE of the following time periods:
• 1880-1948
• 1948-1967
• 1967-1987
• 1987-2013
• List of domains covered in Part I of the course. Consider at least TWO of the following domains in your paper. The two domains need not be discussed in equal length: You may focus on one more than the other. I recommend that you discuss a single topic that combines the two domains.
• Israeli human or natural geography
• Israeli demography
• Zionism and the Yishuv
• The Conflict
• The Israeli political system
• The Israeli legal system
• The Israeli economic system
• The Israeli educational system
• Military-civil relations in Israel
• Arab-Jewish relations in Israel
The issue (or issues) that you focus on should be more specific than, say, immigration, absorption, demography, or the Israeli economic system. Narrow the particular topic that you discuss. You may discuss any issue you wish if it fits the parameters described above.
• You might, for example, discuss immigration by discussing housing and work among Mizrahi immigrants, political participation and language among Russian immigrants, education and work among members of the "new" Yishuv, and so forth. You might discuss the changing demographics and human geography of Mizrahi and Arab citizens of the State of Israel, religious identity among Russian and Ethiopian immigrants, and so forth. You might discuss associations between an immigration wave (pre- or post-state) and the Conflict, the effects of immigration on Jewish-Arab relations within Israel (during a particular period), effects on the Israeli economy, and so forth. Your choices are many and, despite its length, this is far from being an exhaustive list!
For this topic you may discuss Israeli society as a whole, several of the Israeli cultural worldviews we're exploring, or a single cultural worldview.