TY - BOOK AU - Ben-Porat, Amir AU - Galily, Yair TI - Sport, politics and society in the land of Israel: past and present SN - 9780415479271 U1 - 320.5694 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Sports -- Israel -- History KW - Sports--Political aspects N1 - Sport, politics and society in Israel : the first fifty-five years / Yair Galily -- Israeli sport in the transition from a mandatory community to a sovereign state : trends of continuity and change / Haggai Harif -- Maccabi versus Hapoel : the political divide that developed in sports in Eretz Israel, 1926-1935 / Haim Kaufman -- The integration of physical education into the curriculum of Israel's pre-state education system / Talia Ben Israel -- Reading sports in Palestine : the early days of sport reports in the Hebrew mandatory press / Haim Kaufman and Yair Galily -- The sports column as a site of Palestinian nationalism in the 1940s / Tamir Sorek -- Betar : sports and politics in a segmented society / Shlomo Reznik -- Israel's integration with the Olympic movement, 1948-1951 / Amichai Alperovich -- Running nowhere : national identity and media coverage of the Israeli football team's attempt to qualify for EURO 2000 / Alina Bernstein -- From game to commodity : Israeli soccer 1948-1999 / Amir Ben-Porat -- Arab soccer in a Jewish state, the integrative enclave / Tamir Sorek ER -