The Israel Political Science Association (ISPSA) awarded the Prof. Gidon Doron Award for Best Book to Prof. Guy Ben-Porat at its annual conference on Thursday at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
In addition, Ben-Porat was notified that he will receive the Shapiro Prize for writing the best book in Israel Studies for this academic year (2013-14), by the Association for Israel Studies at their annual conference in June to be held on the Sede Boqer campus of BGU.
Prof. Ben-Porat’s book Between State and Synagogue: The Secularization of Contemporary Israel, “is theoretically sophisticated and tells an important story about Israeli society and about the country's cultural values,” according to the ISPSA citation.
Prof. Guy Ben-Porat, head of the Department of Public Policy and Administration has been a member of the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev since 2001.
Between State and Synagogue: the Secularization of Contemporary Israel was published by Cambridge University Press. He is also the author of Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland.
He is co-author of Israel Since 1980; and co-editor of The Contradictions of Israeli Citizenship: Land, Religion and State. Ben-Porat is also an assistant editor of Citizenship Studies. His current research focuses on police-minority relations in Israel and elsewhere.
The ISPSA awards the Gidon Doron Award at its annual conference, which this year was hosted by the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management together with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on May 8, 2014.
The Association for Israel Studies annually awards the Shapiro Prize for the Best Book in Israel Studies published during the last calendar year. This award honors the memory of Yonathan Shapiro (1929-1997), one of Israel's most distinguished and influential sociologists, by recognizing outstanding scholarship in the history, politics, society, law, economics, state, and culture of Israel and the pre-1948 Jewish community in Palestine as well.
The prize will be awarded at the Association’s June conference to be held on BGU’s Sede Boqer campus.
