Udi Lebel is associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ariel University.Eyal Lewin is assistant professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science at Ariel University.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Udi Lebel and Eyal LewinChapter 2: The Combatants’ Protest after the Yom Kippur War and the Transformation of the Protest Culture in Israel Eithan OrkibiChapter 3: The Significance of the Yom Kippur War as a Turning Point in the Religious-Zionist Society Nissim LeonChapter 4: From Domination to Competition: The Yom Kippur War (1973) and the Formation of a New Grief Community Udi LebelChapter 5: Not Just Intermediaries: The Mediatization of Security Affairs in Israel since 1973 Rafi MannChapter 6: The 1973 War and the Formation of Israeli POW Policy: A Watershed Line? Alexander BlighChapter 7: The 1973 War as a Stimulator in the Reshaping of Israeli National Ethos Eyal Lewin

The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was not only one of the most difficult that Israel has ever waged but was a shifting point for the country’s civil-military relations. This important volume analyzes these relations by tackling the key social actors that played a role in transforming the way politicians and leaders were appraised, in changing media representations of war and soldiering, in shaping how different social groups reacted to the conflict and in developing new forms of mourning and social memory of fallen soldiers. The book will be a very useful source for scholars and students wishing to understand the changes that contemporary Israel has undergone.

Udi Lebel is associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ariel University.Eyal Lewin is assistant professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science at Ariel University.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Udi Lebel and Eyal LewinChapter 2: The Combatants’ Protest after the Yom Kippur War and the Transformation of the Protest Culture in Israel Eithan OrkibiChapter 3: The Significance of the Yom Kippur War as a Turning Point in the Religious-Zionist Society Nissim LeonChapter 4: From Domination to Competition: The Yom Kippur War (1973) and the Formation of a New Grief Community Udi LebelChapter 5: Not Just Intermediaries: The Mediatization of Security Affairs in Israel since 1973 Rafi MannChapter 6: The 1973 War and the Formation of Israeli POW Policy: A Watershed Line? Alexander BlighChapter 7: The 1973 War as a Stimulator in the Reshaping of Israeli National Ethos Eyal Lewin

The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was not only one of the most difficult that Israel has ever waged but was a shifting point for the country’s civil-military relations. This important volume analyzes these relations by tackling the key social actors that played a role in transforming the way politicians and leaders were appraised, in changing media representations of war and soldiering, in shaping how different social groups reacted to the conflict and in developing new forms of mourning and social memory of fallen soldiers. The book will be a very useful source for scholars and students wishing to understand the changes that contemporary Israel has undergone.

Udi Lebel is associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ariel University.Eyal Lewin is assistant professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science at Ariel University.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Udi Lebel and Eyal LewinChapter 2: The Combatants’ Protest after the Yom Kippur War and the Transformation of the Protest Culture in Israel Eithan OrkibiChapter 3: The Significance of the Yom Kippur War as a Turning Point in the Religious-Zionist Society Nissim LeonChapter 4: From Domination to Competition: The Yom Kippur War (1973) and the Formation of a New Grief Community Udi LebelChapter 5: Not Just Intermediaries: The Mediatization of Security Affairs in Israel since 1973 Rafi MannChapter 6: The 1973 War and the Formation of Israeli POW Policy: A Watershed Line? Alexander BlighChapter 7: The 1973 War as a Stimulator in the Reshaping of Israeli National Ethos Eyal Lewin

The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was not only one of the most difficult that Israel has ever waged but was a shifting point for the country’s civil-military relations. This important volume analyzes these relations by tackling the key social actors that played a role in transforming the way politicians and leaders were appraised, in changing media representations of war and soldiering, in shaping how different social groups reacted to the conflict and in developing new forms of mourning and social memory of fallen soldiers. The book will be a very useful source for scholars and students wishing to understand the changes that contemporary Israel has undergone.