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Wildfire: Grassroots Revolts in Israel in the Post-Socialist Era
Contributor(s): Lehman-Wilzig, Sam (Author)
ISBN: 0791408728     ISBN-13: 9780791408728
Publisher: State University of New York Press
OUR PRICE:   $32.25  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 1992
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- History | Middle East - Israel & Palestine
Dewey: 323.042
LCCN: 90026930
Series: Suny Israeli Studies
Physical Information: (0.62 lbs) 198 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
 
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Publisher Description:
Wildfire is a wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary study of the other side of Israeli public life. Because the governmental service systems work poorly, and political protest has proved to be largely ineffective, the Israeli public has begun to take matters into their own hands, in effect creating numerous alternative service systems in almost all spheres of life.

Lehman-Wilzig describes this phenomenon and analyzes the impact of the most important alternative systems: illegal settlement activity, a huge underground economy, pirate cable TV stations, gray education, Black medicine, anti-religious as well as anti-secular activity, and a growing demand for electoral reform and constitutionalization of the Israeli polity.