The Suggested course will deal with various aspects of youth protest in Israel, mainly from the 1960s until today.
We will analyze various expressions of youth protest, from cultural protest (music, clothing, leisure habits) through social and political protest within and outside the Israeli consensus. We'll look at the impact of Zionist youth movements and ethos on the development patterns of young protest from the birth of the country to the present.
We will take an examine look at the development of Israeli and other youth culture, particularly comparing to the West. In addition, we will try to find out what factors influenced the development of the counter-culture and culture of protest in Israel, from the effect of changes in society, threw influences from abroad and the effects of technological development, especially the Web and Facebook.
In addition, we will take a look at the response of the general public and the political establishment to different expressions of counter culture and youth protest. When it was taken seriously, as a legitimate protest, when as part of the moratorium phase of young age, when and why authorities treated it as an educational problem -and when aroused moral panic, which intensifies the phenomenon in order to create public opposition against it.