The establishment of the State Israel in 1948 significantly reduced number Jewish displaced persons Italy's DP camps. However, it also marked beginning an unexpected movement some eight thousand Jews who, between and 1949, travelled to Italy from Libya, seeking international assistance resettle Israel. This article explores reasons for which Libya illegally attempted reach camps, role Zionist o...

Building upon psychological conflict theory, on the one hand, and item-response models, on the other, the present paper develops an integrated methodology that aims at differentiating the various ways of criticizing Israel. An application of this methodology to the Anti-Semitism and Criticism of Israel (ASCI) survey found two ways of criticizing Israel resulting from two different and antipodal...

In the interwar period the eugenic ideas gained the status of a scientific theory and become attractive to a wide range of physicians. Among them were doctors of Jewish origin who perceived eugenics as a tool in the fight for biological rebirth of the Jewish nation. Polish-Jewish psychiatrist Raphael Becker (1891-1939?), the author of dozens of scientific papers, was the most famous eugenist am...