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Statistics Don’t Tell the Whole Story about Israel’s Demographics
By Ofir HaivryUnderneath the checked boxes, Israeli politics isn't so easily captured by markers of identity.
Ofir Haivry
Ofir Haivry, an Israeli historian and political theorist, is vice-president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and the author of John Selden and the Western Political Tradition (Cambridge). He served as chairman of the Public Advisory Committee for Examining Israel’s Approach regarding Worldwide Communities with Affinity to the Jewish People, appointed by Israel’s ministry of Diaspora affairs.
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