ABSTRACT
In this chapter, conflict management in Israel is analyzed in accordance with the conceptual framework of Black (1993). Israel has to cope with conflict on several levels: individual, group, and national, and a variety of methods are applied. The external Israeli-Arab conflict, the Jewish-Arab conflict within the country, the ethnic-economic conflict between Eastern and Western Jews, the normative, value-system conflict between religious and secular Jews, and the political-ideological conflict between left and right are discussed. The effect of social stressors and social heterogeneity are analyzed, and three distinct patterns of changes in conflict resolution within Israeli society are identified.
