Prof. Orit Rozin, a historian at Tel Aviv University, discusses her new book Emotions of Conflict: Israel 1949-1967, analyzing the efforts of the Israeli establishment in the 1950s and 60s to control the people’s emotional response to the impending sense of insecurity.

Professor Rozin was a 2023-2024 fellow at the Institute of Advanced Israel Studies at Brandeis University’s Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, organized in partnership with the Center for Jewish History in New York.