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Israel
Index
Like its predecessor, this study is an attempt to treat in a
concise and objective manner the dominant social, political,
economic, and military aspects of contemporary Israeli society.
Sources of information included scholarly journals and monographs,
official reports of governments and international organizations,
foreign and domestic newspapers, and numerous periodicals. Chapter
bibliographies appear at the end of the book; brief comments on
some of the more valuable sources suggested as possible further
reading appear at the end of each chapter. Measurements are given
in the metric system; a conversion table is provided to assist
those readers who are unfamiliar with metric measurements (see
table 1, Appendix A).
An effort has been made to limit the use of foreign--mostly
Hebrew and Arabic--words and phrases, but a fairly large number
were deemed necessary to an understanding of the society. These
terms have been defined the first time they appear in a chapter or
defined in a Glossary entry. To help readers identify the numerous
political groups, Appendix B, Political Parties and Organizations,
is provided.
The transliteration of Hebrew words and phrases follows a
modified version of the system adopted by the United States Board
on Geographic Names and the Permanent Committee on Geographic Names
for British Official Use, known as the BGN/PCGN system. The names
of people and places of ancient Israel are generally presented as
they appear in the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
A modified version of the BGN/PCGN system for transliterating
Arabic was employed. The modification is a significant one,
however, entailing as it does the omission of diacritical marks and
most hyphens.
Data as of December 1988
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