The publication of this book has been supported by a research grant from the Department of Behavioral Science, The College of Management-Academic Studies in Israel. I want to thank the department and especially Amir Ben-Porat and Tova Bensky for their generous support. I would also like to thank my editors at Palgrave, Julia Cohen and Samantha Hasey, for their professional support and personal courtesy.
I would like to thank my teacher and friend, Yishai Tobin of Ben-Gurion University in Israel, who facilitated my first steps as an aspiring scholar over a decade ago and has not withheld his generous support and care ever since.
Lastly, I want to thank Uri Ram, of Ben-Gurion University and The New School, whose influence and contribution to my scholarly upbringing and to this work in particular is immeasurable. I am deeply thankful for his generosity, thoughtfulness, and sincerity and for his friendship.
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