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Yoav Peled, Professor of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, is co-author, with Gershon Shafir, of Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2002), which won the 2002 Albert Hourani Prize (Middle East Studies Association).
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.