Submitted by M.L. R. Grove on Mon, 03/04/2017 - 16:15
Irit Katz will receive the award for her study: "The Common Camp: Temporary Settlements as a Spatio-political Instrument in Israel-Palestine".
The Ben Halpern Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the various fields of Israel studies approved during the last calendar year, honors the memory of Ben Halpern, a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Israel Studies. His book, The Idea of the Jewish State, is still seminal in the study of Zionism.