THE ASSOCIATION FOR ISRAEL STUDIES The Association for Israel Studies (AIS) is open to all individuals who are engaged in, or share an interest in, scholarly inquiry about the State ofIsrael. The Association's member- ship is composed of scholars from all disciplines in the social sciences and many in the humanities. For further details on the Association, please visit: www.israelstudies.org. Membership in the AIS is handled by Berghahn Journals. Upon joining the AIS, mem- bers receive: • Print subscription and online access to the flagship journal of the AIS. the Israel Studies Forum: An Interdisciplinary Journal. • Reduced registration fee for AIS annual meetings. All presenters at annual meetings must be members of AIS. • 25 percent discount on all Berghahn Books publications. • 40 percent discount on volumes of Books on Israel (SUNY Press). To order using the form on the AIS Web site (www.israelstudies.org).click on member benefits. • 20 percent discount on subscriptions to Israel Studies (Indiana University Press). To order online, follow the procedure described above. To join the AIS. simply enter your subscription to the ISF at the individual rate, using our online subscription service. Alternatively, you can print out the order form and mail it to your nearest Berghahn Journals office. You will immediately be enrolled for the calendar year and will receive any issues that have already been published. Please contact journals@berghahnbooks.com if you have any questions. .. • AIS OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS, 2007- 2008 President Rachel Brenner. University of Wisconsin Vice President Aviva Halamish, The Open University of Israel Secretary/Treasurer Robert O. Freedman*, Baltimore Hebrew University Administrative Officer Russell Stone, American University Editor-in-Chief, Israel Studies Forum Ilan Peleg*, Lafayette College Associate Editor, Book Reviews Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg, Carnegie Mellon University Associate Editor, Review Essays Dov Waxman, Baruch College, CUNY Webmaster Amnon Cavari, University of Wisconsin , Indicates a past President BOARD OF DIRECTORS Margalit Shilo Adriana Kemp Gad Barzilai Walid Shomaly Ze'ev Khanin Yael Feldman nan Troen Peter Medding Ariel Feldstein Howard Wachtel Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui Aryeh Naor Yael Zerubavel Shaul Gabbay Roby Nathanson Ronald Zweig Menachem Hofnung Nadav Shelef ISRAEL STUDIES FORUM An Interdisciplinary Journal Volume 23 • Issue 1 • Summer 2008 v Editorial 3 POINT/COUNTERPOINT Israel's Future: The Time Factor A Debate between Efraim Inbar and Ian S. Lustick ARTICLES 15 Zionism between Raw Force and Eros: Berdichevski's Passionate Relation to the Jewish Political Revolution Revital Amiran-Sappir 40 Locating the Fragments of the State and Their Limits: Water Policymaking in Israel during the 1950s Samer Alatout 66 How to Be an Alien: Cross-Cultural Transition of Russian-Speaking Youth in Israeli High Schools Marina Niznik 84 The Dramatic Growth of Private Legislation in Israel, 1992-2006 Anat Maor REVIEW ARTICLE 107 Making Peace with the Duel of Narratives: Dual-Narrative Texts for Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Review by Ned Lazarus