Austerity: desperate housewives and the government -- Austerity and the rule of law -- The law enforcement s -- In the city square -- Austerity tested: the local elections of 1950 -- The municipal election results and their significance -- From poll to poll: the elections for the Second Knesset -- The outcome of the elections to the Second Knesset -- Somewhere in the transit camp -- Terms of abhorrence: how old-time Israelis viewed immigrants from the Islamic World -- Parents, parenting, and children -- The construction of a collective: relations between immigrants and old-time Israelis. 000.
Summary
A provocative history of Israeli society in the 1950s that demonstrates how a voluntarist collectivism gave way to an individualist ethos.