There have been many books on the place of war, security, or military service in Israeli society

Daniel Maman is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of research include economic and organizational sociology, elites, civil-military relations, and networks analysis. Zeev Rosenhek is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of research include state-society relations, ethnicity and citizenship, and labor migration. Eyal Ben-Ari is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has carried out research on Japanese culture and society. He has also done research on the Israeli army, military leadership in the industrial democracies, and United Nations peace-keeping forces.

Preface Introduction: Military, State and Society in Israel: An Introductory Essay Part 1: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives 1. Western-Type Civil-Military Relations Revisited 2. From Wars of Independence to Democratic Peace: Comparing the Cases of Israel and the United States Part 2: The Politics of Civil-Military Relations 3. Civil-Military Relations in Israel in Crisis 4. From Military Role-Expansion to Difficulties in Peace-Making: The Israel Defense Forces 50 Years On 5. Dimensions of Tension between Religion and Military Service in Contemporary Israel Part 3: The State and War-Making-Creating Citizens, Soldiers and Men and Women 6. Paradoxes of Women's Service in the Israel Defense Forces 7. Tests of Soldierhood, Trials of Manhood: Military Service and Male Ideals in Israel 8. The Meaning of War Through Veterans' Eyes: A Phenomenological Analysis of Life Stories 9. Citizenship Regime, Identity and Peace Protest in Israel Part 4: The Notion of "National Security"-Institutions and Concepts 10. The Link between the Government and the IDF During Israel's First 50 Years: The Shifting Role of the Defense Minister 11. A New Concept of National Security Applied on Israel Part 5: The Armed Forces as Organization-Continuity and Change 12. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF): A Conservative or an Adaptive Organization? 13. Organizational Complexity, Trust and Deceit in the Israeli Air Force. Epilogue: Uniqueness and Normalization in Military- Government Relations in Israel