The Israelis : ordinary people in an extraordinary land / Donna Rosenthal.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-449) and index.

Introduction Colliding worlds -- I -- Becoming Israeli -- One of the world's most volatile neighborhoods -- Dating and mating Iraeli-style -- A People's army -- Swords into stock shares -- II One nation, many tribes -- The Ashkenazim: Israel's "WASPS" -- The Mizrahim: the other Israelis -- The Russians: the new exodus -- Out of Africa: Ethipian Israelis in the promised land -- III Widening fault lines between Jews and Jews -- The Haredim: Jewish-Jewish-Jewish -- The Orthodox: this land is your land? This land is my land! -- The Non-Orthodox: war of the cheeseburgers -- IV Schizophrenia: non-Jews in Jewish state -- The Muslims: Abraham's other children -- The Bedouins: tribes, tents and satellite dishes -- The Druze: between modernity and tradition -- The Christians: uneasy in the land of Jesus -- V The Sexual revolution -- Marriage, polygamy, adultery, and divorce Israeli-style -- Oy! Gay? -- Hookers and hash in the Holy Land -- Epilogue -- t Shalom/Salam.