Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-365) and index.
Introduction / Robert O. Freedman -- Israel's domestic politics -- The Israeli right / Ilan Peleg -- After Rabin : the malaise of the Israeli Zionist left / Mark Rosenblum -- Israel's religious parties / Shmuel Sander and Aaron Kampinsky -- Israel's "Russian" parties / Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin -- Israel's Arab parties / Hillel Frisch -- Israel's supreme court / Pnina Lahav -- The Israeli economy / Ofira Seliktar -- Israel's foreign policy -- Israel and the Palestinians / Barry Rubin -- Israel and the Arab world / David W. Lesch -- Israel's strategic relations with Turkey and India / Efraim Inbar -- Israel and the United States / Robert O. Freedman -- Israel's security challenges -- Existential threats to Israel / Steven R. David -- Israel's 2006 war with Hizbollah : the failure of deterrence / Elli Lieberman