Baruch Kimmerling is Professor at Hebrew University and Director of the Center for the Study and Documentation of Israeli Society.

Preface
Chapter 1 The Crystallization of the State and the Struggles Over Rulemaking: Israel in Comparative Perspective
Joel S. Migdal
Chapter 2 Before the State: Communal Politics in Palestine Under the Mandate
Dan Horowitz
Chapter 3 Citizenship, Nationality and Religion in Israel and Thailand
Erik Cohen
Chapter 4 Jewish Organized Labor and the Palestinians: A Study of State/Society Relations in Israel
Michael Shalev
Chapter 5 Children's Perceptions of Minority Rights: Israel in a Cross-National Perspective
Charles W. Greenbaum, Leon Mann and Shoshana Harpaz
Chapter 6 The Social Meaning of Alternative Systems: Some Exploratory Notes
Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Chapter 7 The State of Israel as a Theological Dilemma
Menachem Friedman
Chapter 8 The Structure and Dilemmas of Israeli Pluralism
Judith T. Shuval
Chapter 9 Between "Alexandria-On-The-Hudson" and Zion
Baruch Kimmerling
Chapter 10 Boundaries and Frontiers of the Israeli Control System: Analytical Conclusions
Baruch Kimmerling
Contributors
Index