
Prof. Udi Lebel
CV
Education
BA - Sociology & Anthropology; Political Science, Tel Aviv University (1996).
MA - Political Science, Tel Aviv University (1998, magna cum laude).
PhD - Middle East & Mediterranean Studies, King's College, University of London (2001).
Academic Positions
2021- Chair, Center for International Communication, Bar Ilan University
2019 - Associate Professor, Bar Ilan University
2016 - Senior Researcher, BESA (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies), Bar-Ilan University.
2014 - Research Associate, The Kinneret Research Center in Memory of Dan Shomron, Kinneret College.
2013 - Associate Professor, Ariel University.
2012 - Head of the Dep. of Sociology and Anthropology, Ariel University.
2007 - Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ariel University Center.
2009 - Research Associate, Samaria and Jordan Rift R&D Center.
2006 - Research Fellow, Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies, IDC, Herzliya.
2005-2010 Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Sapir College.
2000-2004 Lecturer, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Grants, Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships
2014- Best Abstract - Lebel, U., "Penetrating National Grief Regime: 'Reframing Loss' as a Terror Casualties' Families Recovery Strategy – A Study in Political-Psychology of Bereavement", 10th International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society, Hong Kong University, 11-14 June 2014.
2013 - Lebel, U. and Lewin, E., "Civil Military Relations: An Inter Organization Research", The Mediterranean Research Center, Ariel University, 10,000 NIS
2012 - Ministry of Science scholarship for the research "Democratic Skills and Political Efficacy", Research Proposal ranked as A+ 250,000 NIS Grant (with Dr. Miriam Billig).
2012 - Samaria and Jordan Valley Research and Development Foundation, Ministry of Science & Ariel University Center Prize for the research: "Regional Framing: The Judea and Samaria's Settlements in the Eyes of the Kibbutz Movement" (with Dr. Miriam Billig)
- Israel Prime Minister Award for the book: The Road to the Pantheon (Jerusalem: Carmel Publishers, 2007)
2011 - Samaria and Jordan Valley Research and Development Foundation, Ministry of Science & Ariel University Center Prize for the research: “Scientific Framing: Judea and Samaria in the Academic Discourse” (with Eytan Orkibi)
2009 - Prize by the Samaria and Jordan Valley Research and Development Foundation, Ministry of Science & Ariel University Center for the study: “State Separation or Political Elite: The Pre-Military Seminars”.
2009 - Ministry of Defense & Samaria and Jordan Valley Research Foundation Prize for “Epistemic Authorities and Memory in the Post-Nationalism Era: Students in the Ministry of Defense's Museums”.
2006 - Menachem Begin Center Award for research on “The Politics of Commemoration for the Fallen in Israel’s Underground”
2006 - The Bereavement Foundation (Keren Hashchol), Tel Aviv University: Prize for the study: “Blame and Forgiveness among Bereaved Parents: political aspects” (with N. Ronel).
2005 - Peleg-Billig Center for Conjugal Research, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University: research grant for “Conjugal Couples in Uniform: the Israeli Family, Militarism and Bereavement” (with Dr. Noah Wiltzensky).
2004 - Research Bureau of the National Insurance Institute [Israel]: 73,000-shekel grant for research project: “Victims of Terrorist Activities - Rehabilitation and Political Aspects”.
2003 - Ben-Gurion Institute for Zionist Studies (Sde Boker) grant for completing and publishing the research: Eztel, Lehi and the Israeli Politics of Memory.
2001 - Prize for Doctoral Research: Jabotinsky Institute Prize for Doctoral Research: Yad Tabenkin Research and Documentation Center of the Kibbutz Movement.
1998 - MA Degree - Magna Cum Laude, Tel Aviv University
MA Thesis: The Second Channel [Television] Award for Excellence in Media Research.
Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Social Sciences: Dean’s Award of Excellence, MA studies in Political Science, including scholarship for 1997/98.
Research
- Discourse and Epistemic Communities
- Trauma and Post Trauma Communities
- Communication and Disenfranchised Victimization
- The Politics of Collective Memory and Commemoration
- Civil – Military Relations
- Social Movements and Social Problems
- Politics of Public Opinion Monitoring
Courses
Selected List
- Political Communication and Political Marketing
- Introduction to Sociology
- Introduction to Politics and Government
- The Israeli Society
- Disenfranchised Grief and Transparent Losses
- Masculinity and Femininity in Visual Media and Popular Culture
- Victimization and Heroization in Visual Media and Popular Culture
- Theories in Political Science (MA)
- Introduction to Mass Media
- Military Media Relationships
- National Resilience
- Civil-Military Relations
- Communicational Problems and Social Change: Defining Social Problems within the Public Discourse
- Communicating Security
- Bereavement, Memory and Commemoration
- Trauma and Society
- Emotional Management in the Media
- Theoretical Approaches and Methods in Research
- Sociology of Science
- Qualitative Research Practicum
- The Third Sector and The Civil Society
- Personal, Organizational and Communicational Leadership
Publications
Books & Monographies
- Doron, G. and Lebel, U., 2003, Politics of Bereavement, Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Tel Aviv. (Heb.)
- Koshilevitch-Geffen, S., Lebel, U. and Ronel, N., 2004, Anger and Reconciliation: The Political Behavior of Bereaved Parents – Between Rage and Forgiveness, The Interdisciplinary Center for Children and Youth Studies, The Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., 2007, The Road to the Pantheon: Etzel, Lehi and the Borders of Israeli National Memory, Carmel Publishing House, Sapir College and Menachem Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem. (Winner of the Israel Prime Minister Award, 2011) (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., 2013, Politics of Memory - The Israeli Underground’s Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization, Routledge, London and New-York.
Editor of Edited Volumes
- Lebel, U. (ed.), 2005, Security and Communication: The Dynamics of the Interrelationship, The Ben-Gurion Research Institute / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U. (ed.), Israel Affairs 12 (3), 2006 (Special Volume: "Civil-Military Relations in Israel").
- Lebel, U (ed.), 2008 [second edition 2010], Communicating Security: Civil-Military Relations in Israel, Routledge, London.
- Misgav, H. and Lebel, U. (eds.), 2008, In the Shadow of the Disengagement: Strategic Dialogue in Crisis, Carmel Publishing House and Netanya Academic College, Jerusalem. (Heb.)
- Billig, M. and Lebel, U. (eds.), Israel Affairs 21 (3), 2015 (special volume: "Jewish Settlers and Settlements in Judea and Samaria – Cultural Sociology of an Unsettled Space: A look from Within").
- Lebel, U. and Lewin, E. (eds.), 2015, 1973 Yom Kippur War and the Reshaping of Israeli Civil-Military Relations, Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland.
- Cote-Hampson, S., Lebel, U. and Taber, N. (eds.), 2018, Mothers, Military and Society, Demeter Press, York University, York Canada.
- Lebel, U., Fuksman-Sha’al, M. and Orkibi, E. (guest editors), 2018, Israel Affairs 5(24), 2018. Special volume: “Mahapach!”: The Israeli 1977 political upheaval – implications and aftermath
Articles in Refereed Journals
- Doron, G. and Lebel, U., "An Organization Defending Itself: The Military System versus the Bereaved Parents", Plilim: Journal of Public law, Society and Culture, 9, 2000, 369-411. (Heb.)
- Doron, G. and Lebel, U., "An Organization Defending Itself: The Military System versus the Bereaved Parents", in: Barak-Erez, D. (ed.), 2001, Army, Society and Law, Ramot Publishing House, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 369-411. (Heb.)
- Dahan-Kalev, H. and Lebel, U., “Generals in School: On the growing connection between the Military and Education”, Politika: The Israeli Journal of Political Science & International Relations, 11/12, 2004, 27-40. (Heb.)
- Doron, G. and Lebel, U., "Penetrating the Shields of Institutional Immunity: The Political Dynamic of Bereavement in Israel", Mediterranean Politics 9 (2), June 2004. pp. 201-220.
- Drory, Z. and Lebel, U., "Public Relations of Death: Conflicts of Memory in a National Memorial Site: Mount Eytan Museum", Democratic Culture, 9, 2005, 49-84. (Heb.)
- FIlc, D. and Lebel, U., "The Israeli Populist Radical Right: A New Phenomenon in a Comparative Perspective", Mediterranean Politics, 10 (1), 2005. pp. 85-97.
- Lebel, U. and Dahan-Kaleb, H., "Marshaling a Second Career: Generals in the Israeli School System", Educational Administration and History 37(1), 2005. pp. 145-157.
- Lebel, U. and Ronel, N., "Parental Discourse and Activism as a Response to Bereavement of Fallen Sons and Civilian Terrorist Victims", Journal of Loss and Trauma, 10 (4), 2005. pp. 383-405.
- Lebel, U., " 'Beyond the Pantheon': Bereavement, Memory and the Strategy of De-Legitimization against Herut", Israel Studies, 10 (3), 2005. pp. 104-126.
- Lebel, U., "Postmortem Politics: Competitive Models of Bereavement and Civil-Military Bargaining over Military Secrecy", Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 5 (2), 2006. Pp. 163-181.
- Lebel, U. and Ronel, N., "Anatomy of Anger, Loss and the Political Psychology of Bereavement: A comparative analysis of bereaved parents of 'public leaders' ", Social Issues in Israel, 2, 2006, 116-142. (Heb.)
- Ronel, N. and Lebel, U., “When Parents Lay Their Children to Rest “, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 23 (4), 2006. pp. 507-522.
13. Lebel, U., "Communicating Security: Civil-Military Relations in Israel" (special edited volumes'
introduction), Israel Affairs, 12 (3), 2006, pp. 361-364.
- Lebel, U., "The Creation of the Israeli ‘Political Bereavement Model’ – Security Crises and their Influence on the Public Behavior of Loss: A Psycho-Political Approach to the Study of History", Israel Affairs, 12 (3), 2006. pp. 439-461.
- Lebel, U., "Will All Be Remembered? The Exclusion of Etzel and Lehi Fallen from the State Narrative: Bereavement, Memory and the Political Delegitimation Strategy against the Herut Party", Democratic Culture, 11, 2007, 77-105. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., " 'Drafted in Death': Bereaved parents, Secrecy and the Challenge of Military Hegemony", Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 17, 2007, 267-286. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "Post-Mortem Confrontation: Military-Civil Interaction about the Transparency of the Security Domain in the Israeli Bereavement Arena", State & Society, 6(1), 2007, 19-41. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "The Culture of Loss Following Crisis: Culture Shifts in the Bereaved Parents–State Relationship", Journal for Cultural Research, Volume 10 Issue 4, 2007. pp. 363-388.
- Lebel, U., "Civil Society vs. Military Sovereignty: Cultural, Political and Operational Aspects", Armed Forces and Society, 34 (1), 2007. pp. 67-89.
- Lebel, U., "Exile from national identity - Memory Exclusion as Identity Deletion: Polemical Exchanges between the Zionist Establishment and the Underground", National Identities, 2009, 11 (3). Pp. 241-262.
- Lebel, U. and Ronel, N., "The Emotional Re-Engineering of Loss: On the Grief-Anger-Social Action Continuum", Political Psychology, 30 (5), 2009. pp. 669-691.
- Lebel, U. and Drory, Z., "Undecided Past - National Identities and Politics of Diversity: The Mount Eytan Commemoration Site", International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies, vol. 1 (2), 2009 (special volume dedicated to: Culture and Commemoration). pp. 215-237.
- Lebel, U. and Rochlin, Y., "From ‘Fighting Family’ to ‘Belligerent Families’: Family-Military-Nation Interrelationships and the Forming of Israeli Public Behavior among Families of Fallen Soldiers and Families of MIAs and POWs", Social Movements Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest, 8 (4), 2009. pp. 359-374.
- Nuttman-Shwartz, O., Lebel, U., Avrami, S. and Volk, N., "Perceptions of Suicide and Their Impact on Policy, Discourse and Welfare", European Journal of Social Work 13(3), 2010, pp. 1-18.
- Lebel, U., " 'Casualty Panic': Military Recruitment Models, Civil-military Gap and their Implications for the Legitimacy of Military Loss", Democracy and Security 6(2), 2010. pp. 183-206.
- Ben-Asher, S. and Lebel, U., "IDF Widows Forming an Intimate Relationship: Representations of a Sociopolitical Discourse", Society and Welfare, 30(2), 2010, 289-310. (Heb.)
- Ben-Asher, S. and Lebel, U., "Social Structure Vs. Self Rehabilitation: IDF Widows Forming an Intimate Relationship in the Sociopolitical Discourse", JCRAS - Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 1 (2), 2010. pp. 39-60.
- Billig, M. and Lebel, U., "Public Opinion in Israel on the Settlements in Judea and Samaria - 2009 Survey Results", Judea and Samaria Research Studies, 19, 2010, 11-18. (Heb.)
- Billig, M. and Lebel, U., "Public Opinion in Israel on the Settlements in Judea and Samaria - 2010 Survey Results", Judea and Samaria Research Studies, 20, 2011, 11-20. (Heb.)
- Hermoni, G., Lebel, U. and Tzuriel, B., "The Parade of Bereavement Songs and the Glocalization of Memory: 'Mobilizing Mechanisms' of the Israeli Memorial Song", The Public Sphere, 5, 2011, 9-34. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "Militarism versus Security? The Double-Bind of Israel's Culture of Bereavement and Hierarchy of Sensitivity to Loss", Mediterranean Politics 16(3), 2011. pp. 365-384.
- Lebel, U., "Panopticon of Death – The Institutional Design of Bereavement", Acta Sociologica 54(4), 2011 pp. 349 - 364.
- Lebel, U., "Postmodern or Conservative? Competing Security Communities over Military Doctrine - Israeli National-Religious Soldiers as Counter [Strategic] Culture Agents", Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review (40), 2013, 23-57.
- Hermoni, G. and Lebel, U., "Politicizing Memory: An Ethnographical study of a Remembrance Ceremony", Cultural Studies 26(4), 2012, 469-491.
- Lebel, U., "Victimization's Boundaries and the Hierarchy of Loss: Terror Victims on the Fading and Revival of the Republican Bereavement Discourse", Democratic Culture, 14, 2012, 153-200. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "The Terror Victims’ Families and the Political Psychology of Rehabilitation", Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 22, 2012, 359-398. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U. and Rochlin, Y., "The Politicization of Family-Military Relations: 1973 War and the construction of Army MIAs (missing in action), POWs (prisoners of war) and Casualties families Political Identity", The Public Sphere, 7, 2012, 100-130. (Heb.)
- Billig, M. and Lebel, U., "Opinion Survey on the Subject of Settlements in Judea and Samaria – Sample Results 2011", Judea and Samaria Research Studies, 21, 2012, 11-20. (Heb.)
- Billig, M. and Lebel, U., "Opinion Survey on the Subject of Settlements in Judea and Samaria – Sample Results 2012", Judea and Samaria Research Studies, 22, 2013, 11-27. (Heb.)
- Hermoni, G. and Lebel, U., "Penetrating the 'Remembrance Day' Playlist: Bereavement and the Induction Mechanisms of Cultural Glocalization", Nations and Nationalism 19(1), 2013, 128–145.
- Lebel, U., "The Limits of Victimization and the Molding of a Hierarchy of Bereavement: The Victims of Terror in the Context of the Waning and Waxing of the Republican Bereavement Discourse in Israel", Democratic Culture 14, 2013, 205-274.
- Lebel, U., " 'Second Class Loss': Political Culture as a Recovery Barrier? – Israeli Families of Terrorist Casualties and their Struggle for National Honors, Recognition and Belonging", Death Studies, 38(1), 2014, 9-19.
- Lebel, U., " 'Blackmailing the Army' - 'Military Strategic Refusal' as Policy and Doctrine Enforcement: Israeli Warfare at Lebanon, Samaria and Gaza", Small Wars and Insurgencies 24(5), 2014, 297-328.
- Billig, M. and Lebel, U., "Judea and Samaria Jewish Settlers and Settlements – Cultural Sociology of Unsettled Space" (special edited journal's introduction), Israel Affairs 21(3), 2015, 309-312.
- Lebel, U., "Settling the IDF: The Pre-Military Academies Revolution and the Creation of a New Security Epistemic Community", Israel Affairs 21(3), 2015, 361-391.
- Lebel, U., Luwisch-Omer, S. and Possick, C., "Manipulating the patriarchy: Re-married religious 'national widows' family management", Social Issues in Israel, 20, 2015, 28-57. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "From Rebecca Gover to "Victimological Militarism": The Bereaved Mother and the Military-Israeli Situation", Amadot, 7, 2015, 111-134. (Heb.)
48. Lebel, U., "The ‘Immunized Integration’ of Religious-Zionists within Israeli Society", Social Identities 22(6),
2016, 642-660.
- Lebel, U. and Hatuka, G., "Israeli Labor Party and the security elite 1977-2015: De-Militarization as Political Self-Marginalization", Israel Affairs 22(3-4), 2016, 641-663.
- Lebel, U., Luwisch-Omer, S. and Possick, C., " 'Back-Stage Autonomy': Religious-Zionist State Widows in Second Marriages Manage Competing Expectations", Journal of Women, Politics and Policy 39(3), 2018, 336-358.
- Lebel, U. and Drory, Z., "From Memory to Bereavement: Individuation as De-Politicization", Amadot 8, 2018, 145-172. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U. and Orkibi, E., "Exempted Soldiers: Public Opinion among Jewish Israelis
Concerning Selective Conscientious Objection (Military Refusal)", Middle Eastern Studies 55(1), 2018, 92-110.
- Lebel, U. and Orkibi, E., "Exempted Soldiers in the “New Sensitivity Army”: Public Opinion among Jewish Israelis Concerning Selective Military Refusal – On Diversity Management as a Pro-Hegemonic Strategy", Democratic Culture 18, 2019, 41-72. (Heb).
- Lebel, U. and Orkibi, E., "Selective Conscientious Objection and the Israeli Military Model in the Eyes of the Israeli Public", Democratic Culture 18, 2019, 41-72. (Heb.)
- Yellinek, R., Mann, Y. & Lebel, U. “China’s Soft Power in the Iran-China Relations” The Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies 4, 2019, 39-65 (Heb).
- Lebel, U. and Ben-Hador, B. “Influence from Within? Senior Managers from the Religious-Zionist Community in the Public Administration – A Phenomenological Research. Israel Affairs 25(3), 2019, 488-513.
- Ben-Hador, B., Lebel, U. and Ben-Shalom, U. “Learning How to Lead from King David? On the Gap between Declared and Real Content in Training”. European Journal of Training and Development 44(4-5), 2020, 489-507.
- Yellinek, R., Mann, Y. and Lebel, U. “Chinese Soft-Power in the Arab world–China’s Confucius Institutes as a Central Tool of Influence”. Comparative Strategy 39(6), 2020, 517-534.
- Yellinek, R., Mann, Y. and Lebel, U. “Chinese ‘Soft Power Pipelines Diffusion’(SPPD) to the Middle Eastern Arab Countries 2000-2018: A Discursive-Institutional Study”. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2020, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2020.1732870
- Yellinek, R., Lebel, U. and Mann, Y. “The Work Division of the Israeli ‘Human Rights Discourse’ Community – Between ‘Occupation Discourse’ and Laundering Human Rights Violations in China: On China’s Soft Power Strategy in Israel. Social Issues in Israel 30(1), 2021, 133-180 (Heb).
- Lebel, U. and Masad, D. “Life Scripts, Counter Scripts and Online Videos: The Struggle of Religious-Nationalist Community Epistemic Authorities against Military Service for Women”. Religions 12(9), 2021, 750.
- Lebel. U. and Drory, Z., "Israeli Failure to Produce a National War Memorial Site: Fragmented National Memory in an Inclusive Semiotic Sphere" Global Humanities 6(8), 2021, 41-59.
Book Reviews in Refereed Journals
- Lebel, U. “Exposed in the darkness”: The Mossad, The SHABAC and the Israeli Media [Review Article]. Media Frames 17, 2019, 175-183 (Heb).
- Lebel, U. “Broadcasting under fire: Educational Radio in Emergency Conditions” [Review Article]. Media Frames 19, 2020, 105-112 (Heb).
Chapters in Refereed Volumes
- Lebel, U., "Cracks in the Mirror of Military Hegemony: The Courts and the Media as Agents of Civil Society in Israel”, in D. Korn, (ed.), 2002, Public Policy in Israel: Perspectives and Practices, Lexington, Maryland. pp. 205-224.
- Doron, G. and Lebel, U., "Training Accidents, Bereavement and the Political Media", in: Al-Haj, M. and Ben-Eliezer, U. (eds.), 2003, In the Name of Security, The Sociology of Peace and War in Israel in changing Times, Haifa University Press / Pardes publishers, 245-284. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "A Legal-Media Complex versus a Political-Defense Complex: The Defense, Legal and Media Relations in Israel", in: Lebel, U. (ed.), 2005, Security and Communication: The Dynamics of the Interrelationship, The Ben-Gurion Research Institute / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 151-180. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "Confrontation or Mutual Dependency? The Relations between Security and Communications in War and Routine: A Theoretical Framework", in: Lebel, U. (ed.), 2005, Security and Communication: The Dynamics of the Interrelationship, The Ben-Gurion Research Institute / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 13-48. (Heb.)
- Ronel, N. and Lebel, U., "Beyond restoration: The Role of Non-Forgiveness for Bereaved Parents", in: Jaishankar, K, Ramdoss, S. and Madhava Soma, S. P. (eds.), 2006, Crime, Victims and Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Principles, Serial Publications, New Delhi. pp. 107-121.
- Lebel, U., "The Creation of the Israeli ‘Political Bereavement Model’ – Security Crises and their Influence on the Public Behavior of Loss: A Psycho-Political Approach to the Study of History" in: Lebel, U. (ed.), 2007, Communicating Security: Civil – Military Relations in Israel, Routledge, London. pp. 439-461 (published first as a special volume of Israel Affairs).
- Lebel, U., "Returning the crown to its former splendor – The disengagement as an attempt to replace elites in the IDF and Israeli Society ", in: Misgav, H. and Lebel, U. (eds.), 2008, In the Shadow of the Disengagement: Strategic Dialogue in Crisis, Carmel Publishing House and Netanya Academic College, Jerusalem, 207-232. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "Who are ‘the Nights of sovereignty? Outside of national Historiography: Etzel, Lehi and the Politics of the formation of National Memory 1949-1963", In: Rothenberg, N. and Schweid, E. (eds.), 2008, Studies on Jewish People, Identity and Nationality, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute / Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Jerusalem, 176-204. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "The Price of Dominance: How the Etzel and Lehi were pushed outside the borders of Israel Memory", In: Markovitzky, J. (ed.), 2008, The Rebels: Etzel's Struggle against the British (1944-1948), Herzl Institute, Haifa University, 271-295. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "Cracks in the Hegemony Grieving Model: The Political Behavior of Families of Yom Kippur War Casualties", In: Shemesh, M. and Drori, Z. (eds.), 2008, National Trauma - The Yom Kippur War: A Retrospective of Thirty Years and Another War, The Ben-Gurion Research Institute / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 325-350. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "What is their legacy? Bereavement and Time in Israel", In: Benziman, Y. (ed.), 2008, Memory Games: Concepts of Time and Memory in Jewish Culture, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute / Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Jerusalem, 205-230. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "No Supreme Court and no B'Tselem – Civil Society and the Military Autonomy Challenge: Dominant Institutions and Cultural Formation", In: Sheffer, G., Barak, O. and Oren, A. (eds.), 2008, An Army that Has a State? New Approaches to Civil-Security Relations in Israel, Carmel Publishing House, Jerusalem, 245-275. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U", "The 'Blood Motif' in the Struggle for Political Recognition: Zionist 'Dissidents' Contest Exclusion", ", in: Hart, M. (ed.), 2009, The Significance of Blood in Jewish Culture, Routledge, London, 88-109.
- Lebel, U., "The Glocalization of Bereavement: Bereaved Families, Discourse of Economics, and the Hierarchy of Casualties", in: Caforio, G. (ed.), 2009, Military Sociology Essays in Honour of Charles Moskos, Emerald Group publisher, Bingley, UK. pp. 11-40 (Opening article).
- Lebel, U., " ‘Left Right Left’ – Organized Insubordination as a tool for formation of Israel’s Security Policy during periods of Likud Government Rule", In: Diskin, A. (ed.), 2011, From Altalenah to the Present Day: The History of a Political Movement – from Herut to Likud, Menachem Begin Heritage Center and Carmel Publishing House, Jerusalem, 228-254. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., " ‘Returning to what we were before’ – The IDF’s ‘knitted skullcaps’ wearers as Conservative Opposition to a Post-Modernist Army", In: Gal, R. and Libel, T. (eds.), 2012, Between the Yarmulke and the Beret: Religion, Politics and the Military in Israel, Kinneret Research Center and Modan Publishing House, Tel Aviv, 151-204. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "Counter-Hegemonic Bereavement, Un-Honored Grief and Reframing Loss - A Study in Political Psychology of Bereavement, Loss and Trauma: The Case of Terror Casualties' Families' Politics of Belonging", in: Van Leeuwen, T. and Brouwer, M. (eds.), 2013, Psychology of Trauma, Nova Science Publishers, NY, pp. 63-88.
- Lebel, U., "From Cultural Agents to Policy Designers: Bereaved Parents, the 'Lebanese Experience' and the Politicization of Israeli Bereavement", in: Kreitler, S. and Shanun-Klein, H. (eds.), 2013, Studies of Grief and Bereavement: Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions, Nova Science Publishers, NY, pp. 97-114.
- Lebel, U., " 'Conditioned Loyalty' and Military 'Strategic Refusal': A Study in Military and Political Psychology of Loyalty", in: Miller, L. B. and Moore, W. C. (eds.), 2013, Psychology of Loyalty, Nova Science Publishers, NY, 1-36.
- Lebel, U., "The 'Grief Regime' Gatekeepers: 'Victimological Militarism' and the Symbolic Bargaining over National Bereavement Identity", in: Bialas, Z., Jedrzejko, P. and Szoltysek, J. (eds.), 2013, Culture and Rites/Rights of Grief, Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Cambridge, 73-99.
- Hermoni, G. and Lebel, U., " ‘How is Blood Remembered?’ – De-Politicization as an Anti-Hegemonic Practice: On the Politics of the Alternative Text ‘Space’", In: Meiri, S., Monk, Y., Menselson-Maoz, A., and Steir, L. (ed.), 2013, Identities in the Formation of Israeli Culture, The Open University, Raanana, 112-145. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "Unrecognized Loss – Anti-Hegemonic Bereavement and a Renewed Framing of Trauma: The Relative Deprivation Experience of Families of Terror Victims in Israel", In: Shanun-Klein, H., Kreitler, S. and Kreitler, M. (eds.), 2013, Thanatology – The Study of Loss, Dying and the Bereavement: Selected Topics, Pardes Publishing House, Haifa, 227-262. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "War Opponents and Proponents: Israeli Military Mothers from Rivka Guber to 'Four Mothers", in: Phelan, C. and Cooper, D (eds.), 2014, Motherhood and War: International Perspectives, Palgrave McMillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 159-179.
- Lebel, U., "The Yom Kippur War (1973) and the Formation of a New Grief Community", in: Lebel, U. and Lewin, E. (eds.), 2015, 1973 Yom Kippur War and the Reshaping of Israeli Civil-Military Relations, Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland, 55-80.
- Lebel, U. and Ben-Shalom, U., "Military Leadership in Heroic and Post-Heroic Conditions", In: Caforio, G. (ed.), 2018, Handbook of the Sociology of the Military, Springer, Rotterdam, pp. 463-475.
- Lebel, U., "Pre-Military Academies as the 'Making' of Religious-Zionist Leadership Capital", in: Brouwer, R. (ed.), 2018, Leadership and Religion, Palgrave McMillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, pp. 186-207.
- Orkibi, E. and Lebel, U., "The Public Reception of Military Refusal", in: Michael, K., Siboni, G. and Kurtz, A. (eds.), 2018, Six Days and Fifty Years, INSS and Tel Aviv University Press, 287-295.
- Lebel, U. and Hermoni, G., "Public Grief is Maternal: The Gendered Discourse of Israeli Military Bereavement", in: Cote-Hampson, S., Lebel, U. and Taber, N. (eds.), 2018, Mothers, Military and Society, Demeter Press, York University, York Canada, 131-156.
- Lebel, U., Ben-Hador, B. and Ben-Shalom, U., "Jewish Spiritualization as a 'Meaning Injection': an Ethnography of Rabbinic Seminar in the Israeli Military", in: Mayseless, O. and Russo-Netzer, P. (eds), 2021, Finding Meaning: An Existential Quest in Post Modern Israel, Oxford University Press, pp. 355-375.
- Lebel, U. and Ben-Gal, Z., "'Yearning for Meaning' :Israeli Terror Casualties' Families and the National Bereavement Discourse", in: Mayseless, O. and Russo-Netzer, P. (eds), 2021, Finding Meaning: An Existential Quest in Post Modern Israel, Oxford University Press, pp. 63-93.
31. Lebel, U., "The Yom Kippur War and the Formation of a new Community of Bereavement: from Hegemony
to Bargaining over the processing of symbolic Military Loss", In: Drori, M. and Lasker, M. M. (eds.), And the
Land trembled – the Yom Kippur War and Israeli Society, Kinneret Academic College and Bar Ilan
University Publishing House – (In Print) (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "The 1977 Political Revolution and Israeli Memory – Between the Political and Symbolic", In: Marcowitzki, Y. and Fucsman, M. (eds.), 30 years to the 1977 Revolution, Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem and Herzel Institute, Haifa University - Accepted for Publication (Heb.)
Refereed Encyclopedia Entries
1. Lebel, U., "War Casualties", in: Joseph, P. (ed.), 2017, SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives, Sage, London, 275-276.
Proceedings
- Lebel, U., "The Social Media of Bereavement", In: Yaari, V. and Oren, M. (eds.), 2002, Remembrance and Commemoration, Ministry of Defense, Rehabilitation Department, Unit for the commemoration of fallen soldier, Tel Aviv, 60-67. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "Bargaining over the formation of Public Policy: Bereavement, Civil Society and the Privatization of the Security Ethos", In: Mano-Negrin, R. (ed.), 2003, Studies of the Third Sector in Israel, Ben Gurion University Publishing House, 74-81. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "The end of the era of embracing bereavement", In: Yablonka, H. (ed.), 2003, In validation: the Holocaust and Yom Kippur War after 30 Years , The Ghetto Fighters House and the Jewish National Fund Institute for the History of Zionism and Settlement, 29-39. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "Careful – you can die in the army! – on Mothers as creators of security concepts", In: Inbar, A. (ed.), 2011, Women and National Security, Discussions in National Security 26, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 1-10. (Heb.)
- Lebel, U., "Managing Military Demography – a challenge for involvement? The IDF and the Israeli Left", In: Inbar, A. (ed.), 2016, IDF Challenges, Discussions in National Security 30, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 47-56. (Heb.)
Non Refereed Research Articles in Israeli\International Journals\Volumes
- Orkibi, E. and Lebel, U., "Wehrdienstverweigerer in Israel – von links bis rechts“, Jüdischer Almanach, Proteste, Jüdischer Verlag/Suhrkamp, September 2012, Berlin. (German)
- Doron, G. and Lebel, U., 1999, “No Longer Engulfed in their Sorrow”, Panim – Culture, Society and Education 11, 55-65. (Heb.)
- Drori, Z. and Lebel, U., 2013, “Recognition or Belonging? On the death of the Solidarity of Israeli Memory”, Panim – Culture, Society and Education 63, 94-105. (Heb.)
Classified articles, Measures, Indexes and Scientific Reports
- Lebel, U., 2007, The Sovereignty and Independence Measure, Menachem Begin Center, Jerusalem.
- Lebel, U., 2007, Israeli Public Opinion and the Second Lebanon War Campaign, Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, The Knesset (Israeli Parliament).
- Billig, M. and Lebel, U., 2009, The Judea and Samaria Measure, Judea and Samaria Research Center, Ariel University Center.
- Billig, M. and Lebel, U., 2010, The Judea and Samaria Measure, Judea and Samaria Research Center, Ariel University Center.
- Billig, M. and Lebel, U., 2011, The Judea and Samaria Measure, Judea and Samaria Research Center, Ariel University Center.
- Billig, M. and Lebel, U., 2012, The Judea and Samaria Measure, Judea and Samaria Research Center, Ariel University Center.
- Lebel, U., Kreitler, S. and Billig, M., 2012, The Israeli Divorce Measure, Peleg-Billig Family-Society Center, Ariel University Center.
Last Updated Date : 04/12/2023