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Professor Uri Ram is a Sociologist at Ben Gurion University, Israel and the Director of the Humphrey Institute for Social Research. His recent book is The Globalization of Israel: McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem (Routledge, 2007) won the Shapiro Prize of the Association for Israel Studies as the best book in Israel studies in 2008.
Within a mere few years after World War II the Middle East was remade. The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and its consequences helped propel that part of the world to what seems to be a permanent and unenviable spot on any list of world crises.
