Contemporary Israel

p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"Robert O. Freedman is Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Baltimore Hebrew University and visiting professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches courses on Middle Eastern politics and Russian foreign policy. He is a past president of the Association for Israel Studies and is a consultant to the US government. He is the author or editor of twenty books, among them Israel in the Begin Era, Israel Under Rabin, and Israel's First Fifty Years.

• Preface -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- Israel’s Domestic Politics -- The Israeli Right -- After Rabin: The Malaise of the Israeli Zionist Left -- Israel’s Religious Parties -- Israel’s “Russian” Parties -- Israel’s Arab Parties -- Israel’s Supreme Court -- The Israeli Economy -- Israel’s Foreign Policy -- Israel and the Palestinians -- Israel and the Arab World -- Israel’s Strategic Relations with Turkey and India -- Israel and the United States -- Israel’s Security Challenges -- Existential Threats to Israel -- Israel’s 2006 War with Hizbollah: The Failure of Deterrence -- Election Results