Uzi Ben-Shalom & Nir Gazit Description Abstract The present ERGOMAS issue of Res Militaris is the first of its kind : it deals with a specific country’s security issues, namely the questions raised by the surveilance and control of Israel’s borders. This foreword details the considerations behind it as well as its contents. Résumé Le présent numéro…
Amr Yossef Description Abstract This article shows that the new, post-Arab Spring military role of the border mission in Israel is a significant part of an overall organizational change. The latter, in turn, is the product of doctrinal change in the IDF, introducing a minor defensive doctrine alongside the main offensive doctrine. The author…
Nir Gazit Description Abstract The increased securitization and militarization of contemporary borders have received growing attention from journalists, activists, and scholars. The focus of this attention is often on formal border policies and on the consequences of fencing, surveillance technologies, and violence in controlling the border. Far less attention has been given to the…
Uzi Ben-Shalom, Shimrit Engel & Eyal Lewin Description Abstract This article examines collective action by men and women in operational military units, following in-depth interviews with male and female soldiers who have served in mixed-gender units on Israel’s borders. In comparison to a previous study conducted over a decade ago, the units currently studied are…
Limor Samimian-Darash & Hedva Eyal Description Abstract This article discusses the concepts of borders and boundaries by analyzing the medical treatment provided in Israel to Syrian casualties, in field hospitals along the border zone between Israel and Syria but also in public hospitals elsewhere in the country. At these hospitals, security personnel and…
Eran Ortal Description Abstract Israel came up with a technical, rather than a holistic strategic solution to the threat of cross-border tunnels – the construction of a sophisticated border obstacle on its border with Gaza. Close examination reveals that the accelerated development of tunnelling from 2012-2014 benefited from Israel’s policy, which during those…
Chava Brownfield-Stein Description Abstract “The eyes of the State” is a phrase first used at the end of the 1973 war by infantryman Benny Massas, interviewed in a TV report after the battle that reclaimed Mount Hermon on the border between Israel, Syria and Lebanon. It became one of the national verbal icons for…
