The Sixth Kinneret Conference on Civil-Military Studies

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

09:00-09:30 Registration

09:30-09:45 Introductory greetings, Lecture Hall 822.
(Simultaneous translation English-Hebrew)

09:45-10:30 plenum lecture on the topic: “Society Military Studies – Past, Present,
and Future”, by Brigadier General Dr. Hadas Minka Brand, head of the IDF
Behavioral Sciences Department. (Simultaneous translation English-Hebrew)

10:30-11:30 Opening plenum “Russia-Ukraine war” (English Session)
Dr. Eitan Shamir, Bar-Ilan University in conversation with:
• Prof. Anthony King, University of Exeter, UK
• Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph, Haifa University, Israel

12:00-13:30 Parallel sessions

Session 1: “Armed by legitimization” – Justifications for military violence in Israeli society
Chair: Dr. Ofra Ben Ishai, The Open University of Israel
• Dr. Ofra Ben Ishai, The Open University of Israel
Presenting the rationale underlying the book: Legitimization of violence – why should it be
studied?
• Ms. Neta Galnoor, PhD student, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Managing legitimization – IDF “Orders of the Day”
• Ms. Aya Bar Oz, PhD student, University of Toronto, Canada
Negotiating legitimization. Legitimizing violence and the publicly negotiated legitimacy of
the military institution: the media discourse surrounding the Azarya affair
• Prof. Yoram Peri – University of Maryland
Response

Session 2: “Female combat soldiers – why the outcry?”
Simultaneous translation English-Hebrew
Chair and moderator: Prof. Ayelet Harel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Dr. Elisheva Rosman-Stollman, Bar-Ilan University
• Dr. Idit Shafran Gittleman, Israel Democracy Institute
• Prof. Shir Daphna-Tekoah, Ashkelon Academic College
• Prof. Ayelet Harel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Session 3: The victimization discourse: On representations of loss and trauma communities in Israeli defense debates
Chair: Prof. Udi Lebel, Bar-Ilan University
• Prof. Udi Lebel and Ms. Karin Matzko, Bar-Ilan University and Tel-Aviv university
Military enlistment as “community death”: On ultra-Orthodox recruits to the IDF
• Dr. Shlomo Abramovich, Shaanan College, and Dr. Shani Umiel-Feldman, Bar-Ilan University.
Bereavement in the teachers’ lounge: On feelings of loss and bereavement among teachers
• Dr. Gilad Greenwald, Bar-Ilan University
“Who will answer the red phone?” – Collective victimization and gender scripts in Prime Minister’s election campaign
• Prof. Udi Lebel, Bar-Ilan University
Staging Bereaved Commanders and Military-Institutional Death Scripts

Session 4: Parliamentary investigation and supervision commissions under the shadow of national wars and disasters
Chair: Dr. Nomi Levenkron, Kinneret College and Tel Aviv University
• Dr. Nomi Levenkron, Kinneret College and Tel Aviv University and Dr. Dikla Yogev, University of Toronto, Canada
“Who is in charge of the Lag Ba’omer celebrations at Meron?” Policing mass ultra-Orthodox events in Israel: Meron as a case study
• Dr. Eyal Tsur, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Kohelet Forum
Knesset supervision of four components in IDF 1999-2013
• Dr. Zipi Gushpantz, Reichman University
And even when the stench was overbearing, no connection was made: The Kishon diving affair as an organizational phenomenon
• Moti Gluska, Lawyer
From the Agranat Commission to the Winograd Commission: Issues in the implementation of recommendations by investigative commissions

Session 5: Digital media, mass media, and psychological warfare
Chair: Prof. Hillel Nossek, Kinneret Academic College
• Dr. Clila Magen, Bar-Ilan University, and Dr. Ruth Avidar, Yezreel Valley College
The General Security Services and Facebook: Are they compatible? Israeli intelligence organizations and the new media, 2000-2020
• Dr. Amit Sheniak, Dr. Assaf Shapira and Prof. Oren Barak, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“The shift to defense in Israel’s Hybrid Military Strategy”
• Dr. Ron Schleifer, Ariel University, and Mr. Yair Ansbacher, Bar-Ilan University
Special forces and psychological warfare – the missing link in modern western warfare
• Dr. Haim Frenkel and Prof. Hillel Nossek, Kinneret Academic College
Coverage of military-defense topics in the Israeli press: Was the attention given to complex military topics from 1994-2012 a suitable platform for significant public debate

Session 6: Bravery in a post-heroic world (English Session)
Chair: Prof. Stuart Cohen, Bar-Ilan University
•Dr. Pnina Shuker, Bar-Ilan University
The perception of democratic society as casualty sensitive and its effect on coping with strategic threats: a comparative analysis of the United States, the UK, and Israel
• Dr. Nehemia Stern, Ariel University
Subverting the strategic corporal: The contemporary heroic imagination within the Israel Defense Forces
• Prof. Torunn Haaland, Norwegian Defense University College and the University of Oslo, Norway
Leadership, not sacrifice: the Norwegian war decoration regime

13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Parallel sessions

Session 7: Lone soldiers and foreign soldiers in the IDF
Chair: Mr. Lior Yohanani, PhD student, Rutgers University
• Prof. Uzi Ben Shalom, Dr. Deby Babis and Dr. Corinne Berger, Ariel University, Prof. Galia Sabar and Dr. Anabel Lifszyc-Friedlander, Tel-Aviv University
IDF experiences with the children of labor migrants: A comparative study
• Mr. Lior Yohanani, PhD student, Rutgers University
Why do lone soldiers from abroad enlist in the IDF?
• Dr. Einat Ben Dov, Chapman University, California, US
Experiences of disabled IDF veterans in Israeli higher education: disability identity and use of support

Session 8: The Israeli-Arab conflict
Chair: Prof. Zeev Drori, international institute for counter-Terrorism- ICT, Reichman University, Herzliya.
• Prof. Zeev Drori and Dr. Amir Bar-Or international institute for counter-Terrorism- ICT, Reichman University, Herzliya
Israel’s national defense policy
• Dr. Orit Miller, Ariel University
Proposals versus reality: the Allon Plan, the Galili Plan, Hussein’s Federation Plan, and Jordan’s disengagement from the West Bank, as a zero-sum game
• Dr. Amir H.N., Independent researcher
“Maintaining a local crown while maintaining a national wall: the influence of leadership and perceived performance on re-election: the case of local authorities in Israel during Operation Guardian of the Walls, 2021”
• Mr.Tzvika Aviv, PhD student, Ariel University The connection between the Bedouin takeover of state lands in the Negev, and the damage to society and the national security of the State of Israel.

Session 9: Military Sociology (English Session)
Chair: Prof. Eyal Ben-Ari, Kinneret College
• Prof. Eyal Ben-Ari, Kinneret College
Military Sociology in Israel
• Dr. Kathy Michaud, Dr. Irina Goldenberg, Mr. Matthew G. Huebner, Ms. Laura Seidel Department of National Defence, Canada
The impacts of COVID-19 on international Deployment troops: Human Dimentions of Operations Survey
• Dr. Stefan Schilling, Oxford Brookes University
A Community of place and function” – A comparison of social identity and shared experiences in the development of cohesion across military formations
• Brigadier General (res.) Ari Singer and Dr. Roni Tiargan-orr, Behavioral Science Department IDF
Military fitnass and “self-efficacy” in the reserve system: on competence measurement.

Session 10: Civil-military relations from a historical perspective
Chair: Prof. Hillel Nossek, Kinneret College
• Dr. Anat Stern, The Open University of Israel
Military and society in challenging times – criminal acts performed by soldiers for financial reasons during the War of Independence
• Dr. Yoram Fried, independent historian
Military or civil dominance: civil-military relations in the 1950s
• Dr. Eldad Brin, The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
Different perspectives: On the disputes between the Central Command and Brigade 16 on issues concerning the populating of Israeli Jerusalem and housing its residents, 1948-1967
• Dr. Avner Barnea, Center for National Security Studies, Haifa University
The excessive force of military intelligence: A case study – Intelligence at the outbreak of the Second Intifada

Session 11: Personnel management in the IDF
Chair: Mr. Meidad Avidar, PhD student, Bar-Ilan University, Behavioral Science Department, IDF
• Mr. Meidad Avidar, PhD student, Bar-Ilan University, Behavioral Science Department, IDF
“Organizational gatekeepers” – Converting military capital for the employment market
• Ms. Avital Truskanov, Behavioral Science Department, IDF
Model of the IDF service experience
• Oshri Bar Gil, Behavioral Science Department, IDF
Technologies in the IDF: the components of success?
• Dr. Asaf Malchi, Israel Democracy Institute
Peripheries in uniform: From the social margins to the military and back

Session 12: Civilians, the civil authority, and the national civil home front: Are they the “guardians of the walls”?
Chair: Dr. Avi Bitzur, Beit Berl College
• Dr. Avi Bitzur, Beit Berl College
Why don’t countries in conflict with Israel have a civil defense system?
• Adv. Gideon Cibulski, Beit Berl College
Ethics, justice, and international law on attacking the civilian home front
• Dr. Benny Brosh, Ariel University, Forming protected areas and shelters, protected spaces, and residential secure spaces
“The earth trembled, and the heavens dropped”: on the virtues of the residential secure spaces
• Mr. Dror Shalev, PhD student, Ariel University
The basic building block of home front defense – the local municipality

Session 13: 40 Years Since First Lebanon War
Simultaneous translation English-Hebrew
Chair: Dr. Yigal Kipnis, Independent researcher
• Dr. Yigal Kipnis, Independent researcher
1982, Are they compatible? Decision making during and after a war
• Major General (res.) Uri Sagie, a former head of Aman
The interrelationship between decision makers and the Military
• Mr. Itay Landsberg, a journalist
The media and First Lebanon War

16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Parallel sessions

Session 14: Military technology and ethics
Chair: Dr. Yoram Evron, Haifa university
• Mr. Oshri Bar-Gil, PhD student at the Behavioral Science Department research institute, IDF, and Bar-Ilan University; 
Automatic and autonomous but guided and controlled – What can be learned from ethical codes for the responsible use of artificial intelligence about the relationship between the military-industry-academia and society
• Mr. Yaakov Shnerb, PhD student, Ariel University
Social, cultural, and ethical considerations when shaping the regulation of autonomous systems operation
• Brigadier General (res.). Guy Paglin, Ministry of Defense
The “race of innovation”: a paradigm shift in the defense and development system
• Dr. Yoram Evron, Haifa university
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Integration of the Civil Sector in Power Building: a comparative international perspective.
Session 15: Civil-military relations from a global comparative perspective
Chair: Dr. Yoav Kapshuk, Kinneret Academic College
• Dr. Yoav Kapshuk, Kinneret Academic College
Methodological dilemmas in studying violent conflicts and attempts at their settlement
• Ms. Yael Ram, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In the grey area: Dual-aim deception and actual fact-setting
• Mr. Ofek Riemer, PhD student, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
On the link between foreign policy and citizens’ ontological security
• Dr. Roni Tiarjan, Behavioral Science Department, IDF, Strasbourg University
Shifts in Jewish public opinion in Israel as influenced by low-intensity combat incidents, 2002-2019

Session 16: The new media and Israel’s defense concept
Chair: Dr. Bat Katzman, Kinneret College
• Dr. Bat Katzman, Kinneret College
Local community-based Facebook groups during COVID-19 and their role in building personal and community resilience among Israel’s Arabs
• Dr. Amit Sheniak, Dr. Asaf Shapira, Prof. Oren Barak, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Operation Guardian of the Walls as a reflection of the defense shift in Israeli military strategy
• Captain. Keren Bareket, Head of Infrastructure Studies, Home Front Command, IDF
Self-evacuation of residents from the Gaza envelope area during Operation “Guardian of the Walls”

Session 17: The civil home front during COVID-19 and in national crises
Simultaneous translation English-Hebrew
Chair: Colonel (res.) Guy Berger, Former Commander of the Northern District, Home Front Command
• Colonel (res.) Guy Berger, Former Commander of the Northern District, Home Front Command; Major (res.) Moriah Hakmon, Former Head of Population Branch, Northern District, Home Front Command; Mr. Amir Shemesh, Assistant to Behavior Officer, Northern District (res.)
Multiculturalism – from challenge to opportunity: Insights from the work of the Northern District in the Home Front Command during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Ms. Yael Sade, PhD student, Ariel University
Political trust, national resilience, and community resilience – a case study of the Kibbutz Movement during COVID-19
• Mr. Shay Balaish, PhD student, Ariel University
The city of Sderot – personal, social, and national resilience in a continuous state of emergency

Session 18: From yarmulke to beret – Generation 2.0
Chair: Dr. Aharon (Roni), Kampinski, Efrata College
• Dr. Aharon (Roni), Kampinski, Efrata College
The efforts of Lt. Col Natan Gerdy of Hapoel Hamizrahi to promote remembrance of the Religious Service department
• Ms. Efrat Hazan, PhD student, Ariel University
Mandatory marriages – Experiences of religious women married to combat soldiers in mandatory service
• Ms. Rachel Getz-Salomon, PhD student, Technion, Haifa.
One and only: The Israeli army skirt between creative freedom and social work
• Ms. Shay Ukrop, PhD student, Prof. Uzi Ben-Shalom, and Prof. Miriam Billig, Ariel University
Pre-military preparatory programs – how are they perceived by trainees and what is the association between this perception and dimensions of preparing for IDF service ?

Session 19: Russia-Ukraine war
Chair: Dr. Eyal Levin, Ariel university
• Dr. Eyal Levin, Ariel university
The Russian [told] narrative – the match that lit a fire in Ukraine
• Colonel Samuel bombndil, and Dr. Adi Sherzer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Russia-Ukraine war, the return of the moral component and the next Israeli war
• Dr. Eitan Shamir
Facilitator
• Mr. Ben-Zion Borohovich, PhD student, Ariel universiry
The decisions of the Soviet Union in the wars of the State of Israel 1956-1973

19:00 Social-cultural event, including grant of prizes and appreciation awards In memory of Lt. General Dan Shomron Simultaneous translation English-Hebrew

The boundaries of the freedom of political expression enjoyed by IDF Chiefs of Staff/generals during their term of office: From permeable borders to the Wall of China
Chairman: Prof. Hillel Nossek, Kinneret College

Participants: Minister of Diaspora Affairs Dr. Nachman Shai, Prof. Zeev Drori, Raichman University, Prof. Udi Lebel, Bar-Ilan University and

Thursday, September 15, 2022
Breakfast at the hotels
8:30-9:45- Session 20: Writing workshop for young researchers facilitated by:
• Prof. Rene Moelker, Military Academy, The Netherlands
• Dr. Chiara Ruffa, Swedish Defense Ministry, Sweden
(English Session)

9:30-10:00 – Registration
10:00-10:20 – Opening of the second day of the conference – greetings
10:00-11:30 – Plenum: Twenty years since Operation “Defensive Shield”
Simultaneous translation English-Hebrew
Moderator: Lt. Col (res.) Dr. Eli Michelson, Head of the IDF Historical Division
Participants:
• Major General (res.) Gershon Hacohen
• Dr. Ohad Leslau, IDF Historical Division
12:00-13:30 Parallel sessions

Session 21: Women in the defense industry
Chair: Dr. Miri Gal-Ezer, Kinneret College
• Dr. Miri Gal-Ezer, Kinneret College
Women in weapons industries worldwide in World War I and II
• Dr. Pnina Abir-Am – Brandeis University, USA
Women scientists as leaders in the manufacture of the nuclear bomb in World War II

Session 22: Models of military service (English Session)
Chair: Dr. Elisheva Rosman-Stollman, Bar-Ilan University
• Dr. Eitan Shamir, Bar Ilan University; Dr. Elisheva Rosman-Stollman, Bar-Ilan University; Prof. Eyal Ben Ari, Kinneret College
Neither conscription nor all-volunteer force: The emergence of voluntary selective conscription in the IDF
• Dr.Tiia-Triin Truusa, Baltic Defence Academy; Prof. Kairi Kasearu, University of Tartu; Eleri Lillemäe, University of Tartu, Estonia
National defense course – a preparation for conscription?
• Ms. Anat Waldman and Dr. Roni Tiargan-Orr, Behavioral Science Department IDF, Strasbourg university and Dr. Reuven Gal, Neaman Institute.
Military Propensities among Israel Defense Forces’ Potential Conscripts: An Opportunity for a Re-examination of Moskos’ original I/O thesis
• Prof. Vince Connelly, Oxford Brookes University
The British Army approach to using Reserves. Changes since the Cold War and possible explanations for change.

Session 23: Bus 300 – The General Security Services affair: Insights and lessons
learned
Simultaneous translation English-Hebrew
Chair and moderator: Prof. Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Hull, UK
Roundtable:
• Prof. Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Hull, UK
• Lt. General (res.) Ami Ayalon, former Head of the General Security Services
• Prof. Ariel Bendor, Bar- Ilan University
• Prof. Asa Kasher, Tel Aviv University

Session 24: The IDF’s sphere of legitimation
Chair: Prof. Yoram Peri, Maryland University
• Prof. Yoram Peri, Maryland University
The IDF’s shrinking sphere of legitimation
• Dr. Moti Safrai
The issue of early retirement in the IDF – the clash between economic and organizational logics and social legitimization
• Dr. Dov Tamari, Beit Berl
The continuous war of attrition, a conceptual change
• Dr. Udi Golan, Haifa University
Commitment problems in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Session 25: Teenagers and military service
Chair: Prof. Uzi Ben Shalom, Ariel University
• Dr. Gadi Hitman, Ariel University; Prof. Uzi Ben Shalom, Ariel University; and Dr. Itamar Rickover, Bar-Ilan University and Kinneret College
Attitudes of young Israeli Arabs to service in the civil and defense forces – characteristics, influential factors, and meanings
• Prof. Rosalie Arcala Hall, University of the Philippines, Visayas Miagao, Iloilo, The Philippines
Integration of Muslim former rebels into the Philippine Army
• Mr. Meidad Avidar, PhD student, Bar-Ilan university, Behavioral Science Department IDF and Ms. Yael Borochovitz, Behavioral Science Department IDF
Motivational profiles of teenagers towards the goals of IDF service as expressing a multidimensional sociological contract

Session 26: “Studying the Eye of the Storm”: Research perspective on the Border Police
Chair: Dr. Sigalit Shachar, Haifa University, Formerly the Head of the Organizational Counseling Branch, Border Police (ret.)
• Dr. Sigalit Shachar, Haifa University, Formerly the Head of the Organizational Counseling Branch, Border Police (ret.)
“Don’t let yourself give up” – The experience of being a combat soldier in the Border Police
• Dr. Tal Misgav, Commander of the History and Research Unit and the Border Police Museum
The Border Police in Operation Guardian of the Walls as foreseers of the future
• Dr. Sigalit Shachar, Dr. Limor Sagi, Dr. Yuval Tzur and Prof. Uzi Ben Shalom
“I know riots”: The leadership of Border Police commanders heading ad-hoc teams in routine and emergency operations

13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Parallel sessions

Session 27: Military activity in contemporary geopolitical spaces (English Session)
The session is sponsored by the Ira Foundation
Chair: Prof. Emeritus Ehud Menipaz, Ben Gurion University; Chairman, Ira Foundation for Business, Technology & Society
• Dr. Maya Higgins, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Shaping public views on national defense: Comparative analysis of Israel and Finland
• Prof. Eric Ouellet, Royal Military College of Canada & Canada Ministry of Defense
Russian Command Dynamics: A sociological primer
• Dr. Oshri Bar-gil, Bar Ilan university
Influence and deterrence in the information Age: Resilience for influence operations as a tool for deterrence in the new battlefield of the information age

Session 28: Information and media in times of emergency
Chair: Prof. Yehiel Limor
• Dr. Adam Tsachi, Herzog Academic College
Working through trauma in contemporary Israeli documentary films on combat fatigue
• Dr. Leah Itzik, Ashkelon Academic College
“Help! I have a question”: Perceptions of internet commenters regarding the Gahelet rehabilitation system in Israeli military prisons
• Chair: Dr. Roni Tiargan-Orr, Behavioral Science Department IDF; Dr. Roni Tiargan-Orr, Behavioral Science Department IDF; Ms. Tal Moshe, Behavioral Science Department IDF
Differential uses of information sources when dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic: Professional and mandatory service soldiers in the IDF
• Capt Alona Friedman, Head of applied research, Home Front Command, IDF
Sociological issues concerning self-evacuation of civilians in times of emergency

Session 29: Research on military confrontations in the digital era
Simultaneous translation English-Hebrew
Chair: Dr. Eyal Berelovich, the Institute for Land Warfare Studies, Maneuvers System, Ground Forces
• Dr. Eyal Berelovich, the Institute for Land Warfare Studies, Maneuvers System, Ground Forces
What can we learn from the war in Nagorno-Karabakh?
• Dr. Eyal Lewin, Prof. Uzi Ben-Shalom, Dr. Roni Mash & Dr. Amit Dvir, Ariel University
Female violence in terror attacks: A phenomenological analysis based on evidence from the “Intifada of the Individuals”
• Major D. IDF
The problematic image of artificial intelligence and the hazards involved in restricting the development of systems based on artificial intelligence for military needs

Session 30: Social challenges in Society and Military – IDF veterans
Chair: Ms. Rinat Gold Gazit, Lawyer and PhD student, Haifa university
• Dr. Eynat Shushan-Refaeli, Ariel University
Preparation for significant military service in the periphery – a snapshot of Israel’s backyard in 2022
• Ms. Shenav Peretz, PhD student, Ariel University
The road to command positions in the army passes through secondary school: The role of the education system in developing a leadership concept Among young girls.
• Ms. Rinat Gold Gazit, Lawyer and PhD student, Haifa university
“One Soul” reform for disabled IDF veterans
• Prof. Uzi Ben-shalom, Ariel University and Dr. Itamar Rickover, Bar-Ilan university
The status of veterans in Israel

Session 31: Issues in military personnel systems – regular and reserves forces
Chair: Dr. Eitan Shamir, Bar Ilan university
• Dr. Morten Breander, Aarhus University, Denmark
“The Rainbow Curtain in the European armed forces – how military personnel attitudes amplify those of their civilian counterparts”.
• Ms. Taly Levi, PhD student, the Hebrew of Jerusalem University
Reserves, citizenship, and legislation – the reflection of the service model in the reserves in the bills from the tenth Knesset to the present day
• Dr. Eitan Shamir, Bar Ilan university
The reservists as accelerators of military innovation
• Prof. Abira Reizer and Mr. Erez Bechochma, Ariel university
The contribution of the team composition to the execution of the task in the world of network analysis, a multidimensional view
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