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2012 Winner of the Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Israel Studies, presented by the Association for Israel Studies Whose life is worth more? That is the question that states inevitably face during wartime. Which troops are thrown to the first lines of battle and which ones remain relatively intact? How can various categories of civilian populations be protected? And when front and rear are porous, whose life should receive priority, those of soldiers or those of civilians? In Israel's Death Hierarchy, Yagil Levy uses Israel as a compelling case study to explore the global dynamics and security implications of casualty sensitivity. Israel, Levy argues, originally chose to risk soldiers mobilized from privileged classes, more than civilians and other soldiers. However, with the mounting of casualty sensitivity, the state gradually restructured what Levy calls its death hierarchy to favor privileged soldiers over soldiers drawn from lower classes and civilians, and later to place enemy civilians at the bottom of the hierarchy by the use of heavy firepower. The state thus shifted risk from soldiers to civilians. As the Gaza offensive of 2009 demonstrates, this new death hierarchy has opened Israel to global criticism.Product Identifiers
PublisherNew York University Press
ISBN-100814753345
ISBN-139780814753347
eBay Product ID (ePID)129017172
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Number of Pages269 Pages
Publication NameIsrael's Death Hierarchy : Casualty Aversion in a Militarized Democracy
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2012
SubjectMilitary History
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaHistory, Political Science
AuthorYagil Levy
SeriesWarfare and Culture Ser.
FormatHardback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight19.8 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Height229mm
Width152mm
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Date of Publication05/11/2012
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Place of PublicationNew York
Series TitleWarfare and Culture
Country of PublicationUnited States
GenreMilitary History
Author BiographyYagil Levy is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel. His recent books include Israel's Materialist Militarism, Israel since 1980, and Who Governs the Military? Between Control of the Military and Control of Militarism.
