Prof. Udi Lebel

Email
udi.lebel@biu.ac.il
    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)

    1.  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

    1. Doron, G. and Lebel, U., 2003, Politics of Bereavement, Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Tel Aviv. (Heb.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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

    1. 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.)

     

    1. Lebel, U. (ed.), Israel Affairs 12 (3), 2006 (Special Volume: "Civil-Military Relations in Israel").

     

    1. Lebel, U (ed.), 2008 [second edition 2010], Communicating Security: Civil-Military Relations in Israel, Routledge, London.

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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"). 

     

    1. Lebel, U. and Lewin, E. (eds.), 2015, 1973 Yom Kippur War and the Reshaping of Israeli Civil-Military Relations, Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland.

     

    1. Cote-Hampson, S., Lebel, U. and Taber, N. (eds.), 2018, Mothers, Military and Society, Demeter Press, York University, York Canada.

     

    1. 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

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. Lebel, U., " 'Beyond the Pantheon': Bereavement, Memory and the Strategy of De-Legitimization against Herut", Israel Studies, 10 (3), 2005. pp. 104-126.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. Lebel, U., " 'Drafted in Death': Bereaved parents, Secrecy and the Challenge of Military Hegemony", Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 17, 2007, 267-286. (Heb.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. Lebel, U., "Civil Society vs. Military Sovereignty: Cultural, Political and Operational Aspects", Armed Forces and Society, 34 (1), 2007. pp. 67-89.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.   

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. Lebel, U., "Panopticon of Death – The Institutional Design of Bereavement", Acta Sociologica 54(4), 2011 pp. 349 - 364.

     

    1. 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.  

     

    1. Hermoni, G. and Lebel, U., "Politicizing Memory: An Ethnographical study of a Remembrance Ceremony", Cultural Studies 26(4), 2012, 469-491.

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. Lebel, U., "The Terror Victims’ Families and the Political Psychology of Rehabilitation", Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 22, 2012, 359-398. (Heb.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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. 

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. Lebel, U. and Drory, Z., "From Memory to Bereavement: Individuation as De-Politicization", Amadot 8, 2018, 145-172. (Heb.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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).

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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).

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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

     

    1. 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). 

     

    1. 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.

     

    1.  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

    1. Lebel, U. “Exposed in the darkness”: The Mossad, The SHABAC and the Israeli Media [Review Article]. Media Frames 17, 2019, 175-183 (Heb).

     

    1. Lebel, U. “Broadcasting under fire: Educational Radio in Emergency Conditions” [Review Article]. Media Frames 19, 2020, 105-112 (Heb).

     

     

    Chapters in Refereed Volumes

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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).

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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).

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.
    2. 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.

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.   

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.   

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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 

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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.)

     

    1. 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

    1. Orkibi, E. and Lebel, U., "Wehrdienstverweigerer in Israel – von links bis rechts“,  Jüdischer Almanach, Proteste, Jüdischer Verlag/Suhrkamp, September 2012, Berlin. (German)

     

    1. Doron, G. and Lebel, U., 1999, No Longer Engulfed in their Sorrow”, Panim – Culture, Society and Education 11, 55-65. (Heb.)

     

    1. 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

    1. Lebel, U., 2007, The Sovereignty and Independence Measure, Menachem Begin Center, Jerusalem.

     

    1. Lebel, U., 2007, Israeli Public Opinion and the Second Lebanon War Campaign, Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, The Knesset (Israeli Parliament). 

     

    1. Billig, M. and Lebel, U., 2009, The Judea and Samaria Measure, Judea and Samaria Research Center, Ariel University Center.

     

    1. Billig, M. and Lebel, U., 2010, The Judea and Samaria Measure, Judea and Samaria Research Center, Ariel University Center.

     

    1. Billig, M. and Lebel, U., 2011, The Judea and Samaria Measure, Judea and Samaria Research Center, Ariel University Center.

     

    1. Billig, M. and Lebel, U., 2012, The Judea and Samaria Measure, Judea and Samaria Research Center, Ariel University Center.

     

    1. 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