Health and Hegemony: Preventive Medicine, Immigrants and the Israeli Melting Pot

Israel, Palestine and Nonterritorial Governance: A Reconfigured Status Quo

“…In the first decades after independence, health-care provision was explicitly viewed as part of incorporating new immigrants into the Jewish state. 36 Currently, all citizens must obtain health insurance from one of four funds, now largely unmoored from their origins in either the Labor or Revisionist Zionist movements. Unlike the funds, many hospitals still reflect their religious roots (in both Israel and the West Bank).…”

Last resort? Lobotomy operations in Israel, 1946–60

“…6 The 'Oriental' Jew had a very small role in this worldview (Khazzoom, 2003;Shohat, 1997 (Hacohen, 1994). As some recent works have shown, the health dimension played an important role in the social and cultural tensions among the various groups and in the melting-pot policy of the establishment (Davidovitch and Shvarts, 2004;Weiss, 2002). Another crucial aspect was the dramatic change in the demographic composition of the immigrant population due to the large numbers arriving from North Africa and other Arab countries.…”