Joseph Ginat
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Joseph Ginat was an Israel
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i anthropologist, author, political advisor, and soldier.

Biography

Joseph Ginat was a Sabra
Sabra
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, or a Jew born in Palestine
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 before the Jewish State of Israel was created on May 14, 1948. Ginat's grandfather, a Levite
Levite
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, came Palestine to live in the Promised Land
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 and to be buried in what he considered to be sacred soil.

Military Service

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known to Israelis as the War of Independence or War of Liberation The war commenced after the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the creation of an independent Israel at midnight on 14 May 1948 when, following a period of civil war, Arab armies invaded...

, at twelve-years-old, Ginat was given a World War I
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 rifle and told to defend the east entry of a small Jewish village north of Jerusalem. He parachuted into Sinai with the Paratroopers Brigade during the Suez Campaign. Ginat fought in the liberation of the city of Jerusalem during the Six Day War in June 1967 and served as an aide-de-camp to General Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces , he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new State of Israel...

 and a recognizant for the tank brigade.

Education and Academic Career

Ginat received his Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
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 in anthropology
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 from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964 and his Master of Arts
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
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 from Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
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 in anthropology in 1970. He completed his Ph.D.
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 at the University of Utah
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's Department of Anthropology in 1975 submitting a dissertation entitled "A Rural Arab Community in Israel: Marriage Patterns and Woman's Status."

Ginat was an instructor at the University of Haifa
University of Haifa
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 from 1974–1975, lecturer from 1976–1981, senior lecturer from 1982–1987, and associate Professor from1988 - 1996. He was made full Professor at The University of Haifa in 1996.

He served as a visiting professor at numerous other universities:
  • 1970, 1972 — Visiting Instructor, University of Utah
    University of Utah
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  • 1971, 1975 — Visiting Professor, Brigham Young University
    Brigham Young University
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    , Utah
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     (summers)
  • 1974-1975 — Instructor, University of Haifa, Israel
  • 1976-1981 — Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Haifa
  • 1978 — Visiting Professor, University of Utah (spring, summer)
  • 1979 — Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University (summer)
  • 1981-1982 — Visiting Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
  • 1982-1985 — Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa
  • 1986 — Teaching Anthropology, Department of Land of Israel, University of Haifa
  • 1988-1989 — Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University (part time)
  • 1988-1996 — Associate Professor, University of Haifa
  • 1992-1996 — Director, Jewish-Arab Center, University of Haifa
  • 1996 — Full Professor, University of Haifa
  • 1998-2000 — Visiting Professor, The University of Oklahoma

Professional Appointments

  • 1964-1968 — Director, Central and Southern District, Prime Minister of Israel
    Prime Minister of Israel
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    's Office, Department of Arab Affairs, Israel
  • 1968-1975 — Deputy Advisor on Arab Affairs to Prime Minister of Israel (on leave 1970-1972, 1974–1975)
  • 1976-1978 — Senior Researcher, Prime Minister's Office, Department of Arab Affairs
  • 1980-1981 — Member, Advisory Committee on Bedouin Sedentarization, Ministry of Agriculture, Israel
  • 1980-1981 — Personal Advisor on Arab Affairs to the Late Moshe Dayan
  • 1985-1986 — Advisor on Arab Affairs to the Prime Minister and Senior Assistant to Minister Ezer Weizman
    Ezer Weizman
    ' was the seventh President of Israel, first elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1998. Before the presidency, Weizman was commander of the Israeli Air Force and Minister of Defense.-Biography:...

    , the Prime Minister's Office
  • 1987-1989 — Advisor on Arab Affairs to Vice Premier and the Minister of Agriculture
  • 1989-1992 — Director, The Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, Egypt
  • 1993-1996 — Senior Advisor to the Minister of Tourism, Israel
  • 1993-1996 — Member, National Advisory Committee for Women Status and Role, attached Prime Minister's Office
  • 1994 — Advisor to the Israeli Team, Multilateral Committee on Refugees
  • 1995 — Chairman, Committee for Relationships with Arab and Mouslim Countries, The Labor Party, Israel

Work with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Ginat developed personal relationships with LDS Church presidents Harold B. Lee
Harold B. Lee
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, Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson
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, Spencer W. Kimball
Spencer W. Kimball
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, Howard W. Hunter
Howard W. Hunter
Howard William Hunter was the fourteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1994 to 1995. His nine month presidential tenure is the shortest in the history of the Church...

, Gordon B. Hinkley and Thomas S. Monson
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. He gave personal guided tours of Israel to four of these men. He heard Harold B. Lee say at the Garden Tomb
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, “The Holy Ghost bears witness to me that this is the place from which Jesus resurrected".

Ginat found out from Ezra Taft Benson that Orson Hyde
Orson Hyde
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, a Jewish-American and a Mormon
Mormon
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, had dedicated the Palestine for the return of the Jews thirty-seven years before Theodore Herzl. He discovered that Orson Hyde had traveled to Europe
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 and spent months going from one synagogue
Synagogue
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 to another in England
England
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, France
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, Germany
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 and Poland
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 to convince the Jews to return to Jerusalem; this was in 1840. Ginat recognized that Orson Hyde was the first Zionist and wanted Orson Hyde to be honored and recognized as such.

Due to his efforts the Orson Hyde Park exists today on the side of the Mount of Olives
Mount of Olives
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. It is also true that the Orson Hyde Memorial Garden located at Netanya Academic College
Netanya Academic College
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 today, north of Tel Aviv, is due to the passionate commitment of Ginat, who served as vice-president of the college. Ginat was also the reason there is a BYU Jerusalem Center. As an advisor for Arab affairs five times to three different Prime Ministers of Israel, Ginat was able to obtain permission for the land to be leased to the Church through BYU.

Ginat also founded the "House of Joseph-House of Judah Dialogue Center" aimed at building relations between Mormons and Jews. In 2006 an event was held in Salt Lake City, Utah attended by Larry King
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, Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
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, and Gordon B. Hinkley, and other dignitaries.

Scholarships, Awards and Research Grants

  • 1972-1973 — University of Utah Research Committee
  • 1972 — University of Utah Park Foundation
  • 1972 — Harriet Travis Foundation, Utah
  • 1972 — Prime Minister's Office, State of Israel
  • 1973-1974 — Emeq Hefer Regional Council, Israel
  • 1973-1975 — University of Haifa, Faculty of Humanities
  • 1974-1975 — Histadrut - Israeli General Federation of Labor, Research Committee
  • 1975 — American Philosophical Society
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  • 1978 — University of Haifa, Research Authority
  • 1979 — University of Haifa, the Jewish Arab Center
  • 1979 — University of Haifa, Faculty of Humanities, Research Committee
  • 1980-1983 — The Israeli National Council for Research
  • 1987 — The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies
  • 1987-1989 — The University of Utah Research Authority
  • 1993-1994 — Tel Aviv University, The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
  • 1994-1995 — Tel Aviv University, The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
  • 1994-1995 — Tel Aviv University, the Kaplan Chair in the History of Egypt and Israel
  • 1995-1996 — University of Haifa, Faculty of Humanities
  • 1995-1996 — University of Haifa, Research Authority
  • 1996 — Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem
  • 1996 — Cultural Authority, Department for Druze Culture, Ministry of Education and Culture
  • 1996-1997 — Institute of Conflict Resolution, Universitat Bielefeld, Germany
  • 1997 — Rockefeller Foundation
    Rockefeller Foundation
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    , at Bellagio, Italy
  • 1997 — Amos Foundation-The Office of the President of Israel
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  • 1998-1999 — Fulbright-The University of Oklahoma Award

Publications

  • The Bedouin. Jerusalem: School of tourism, Ministry of Tourism, 1966 (Hebrew).
  • The Significance of Mountain Name in the Sinai. Teva Ve-Ha-Aretz [Nature and Country], 2:240-248, 1969 (Hebrew).
  • The Bedouin of the Negev in the Ayalon basin. In: Agan Nahal Ayalon Ha-Maaravi [The Western Ayalon Basin], S. Marton, ed. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1970 (Hebrew).
  • "Bedouin," Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 9:1043-1045, 1971.
  • with S. Parker and J. Smith: Father absence and cross-sex identity: The puberty rites controversy revisted. American Enthnologist 2, 687-706, 1975.
  • Changes in family structure among rural Arabs. Squiroth (Occasional Papers on the Middle East) June, No. 3 Tel Aviv: The Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, June 1976 (Hebrew).
  • Blood revenge in Bedouin societies, Squirot (ccasional Papers on the Middle East), No. 15, Haifa: The Jewish Arab Center, The Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Haifa, January 1978 (Hebrew).
  • Illicit sexual relationships and family honor. In: S. Giora Shoham and Anthony Graham (eds.) Israel Studies in Criminology 5, Ramat Gan: Turtledove Publishing, 1979.
  • Employment as a Factor for Social Change in the Arab Village. Squirot (Occasional Papers on the Middle East). Tel Aviv: Sapir Center and Shiloah Center for Middle East and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1981 (Hebrew).
  • Women in Muslim rural Society: Status and Role in Family and Community. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1982.
  • "Meshames" - the outcast in Bedouin societies. Nomadic People 12, 26-48, 1983.
  • Blood Revenge in Bedouin Societies. In: E. Marx and A. Shmueli (eds.) The Changing Bedouin. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, an The Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, pp. 59–82, 1984.
  • Sedentarization of Negev Bedouin in Rural Communities. Nomadic People 15, 1-33, 1984.
  • Frauer in der polygynen Mormonen Gesellschaft (The bride in polygynous Mormon Societies). In: Heransgegeben von Gisela Volger and Karin V. Welch, Die Braut, Koln: Ethnologica Ranterstranch-Joest-Museums. Der Stadt Koln, pp. 210–217, 1985.
  • The role of the mediator in disputes among Bedouin and Arab rural societies. In: S. Giora Shoham (ed.) Israel Studies in Criminology 7, pp. 89–131, 1986.
  • The Arab vote: Palestinization or protest. In: A. Arian (ed.) The Elections in Israel. Tel Aviv" Ramot, pp. 151–167, 1987.
  • Blood Disputes among Bedouin and rural Arabs in Israel: Revenge, Mediation,Outcast and Family Honor. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press in cooperation with Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 1987.
  • Analysis of the Arab vote in the 1984 elections. Occasional Papers, No. 100. Tel Aviv: Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University, September 1987.
  • The establishing of an Israeli Arab: The Israeli minority in Israel as an ethnic, social and political community, Sqira Hodshit (Monthly Review), 35(11) December 1988 (Hebrew).
  • Israel Arabs: Some recent social and political trends. Asian and African Studies 23, 183-204, 1989.
  • Patterns of voting and political behavior among the Israeli Arabs. In: Jacob M. Landau (ed.) The Arab Vote in Israel's Parliamentary Elections, 1988. Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, pp. 3–22, 1989.
  • The elections in the Arab sector: Voting patterns and political behavior. The Jerusalem Quarterly 53, 27-55, Winter 1990.
  • with Irwin Altman: Place attachment: How many meanings? In: . Mazis, C. Karoletsov and K. Tsovtala (eds.) Socio-environmental metamorphoses. Conference proceedings: International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS 12), Porto Carras, Greece, pp. 8–15, 1992.
  • Editing the Bulletin of the Israel Academic Center in Cairo, 1989–1992, vols. 13-17.
  • with Carol M. Werner, Irwin Altman and Barbara B. Brown: Celebrations in personal relationships: A transactional/dialectical perspective. In: Steve Duke (ed.) Social Context and Relationships, Understanding Relationships Processes Series, vol. 3, London: Sage Publications, pp. 109–142, 1993.
  • Changes in the Egyptian society since 1973. In Rubin, B., Ginat, J. and Maoz, M. (eds.): From War to Peace 1973-1993. Brighton, U.K. & New York, NY: Sussex Academic Press & New York University Press, 1994.
  • with Rubin B. and Maoz, M (eds.): From War to Peace 1973-1993. Brighton, UK & New York, NY: Sussex Academic Press & New York University Press, 1994.
  • with Altman, I.: Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society, Coping with Challenging Life Style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Blood Revenge: Family Honor, Mediation and Outcasting. Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 1997.
  • with Khazanov. A. (eds.): Changing Patterns of Pastoralists in Changing Societies. Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 1998.
  • Change and tradition among Bedouin in Israel In: Ginat, J. and Khazanov, A. (eds.) Changing Patterns of Pastoralists in Changing Societies. Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 1998.
  • with Winkler, O. (eds.) Smoothing the Path to Peace: The Israeli-Jordanian-Palestinian Triangle, Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 1998.
  • Building up Peace: Interactions between Jordanians, Palestinians and Israelis. In: Ginat, J. and Winkler, O. (eds.) Smoothing the Path to Peace: The Israeli-Jordanian Palestinian Triangle. Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 1998.
  • Blood Revenge among Bedouin and rural Arab Societies. Tel Aviv: Zmora Bitan and The University of Haifa, 1999 (in Hebrew).
  • with Maoz, M and Winkler, O. (eds.) Modern Syria: A Pivotal Role in the Middle East. Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 1999.
  • Arab alAramsha on the Lebanese-Israeli border originated in the Syrian Desert. In: Ginat, J., Maoz, M and Winkler, O. (eds.) Modern Syria: A Pivotal Role in the Middle East. Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 1999.
  • A proposal for a Permanent Settlement Plan for the Palestinian Refugees. San Diego, CA, Uiversity of California, Institute on Conflict cooperation (to be published).
  • with Edward J. Perkins
    Edward J. Perkins
    Edward Joseph Perkins is a former American diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, and the United Nations 1992-1993. He was later Director of the US State Department's Diplomatic Corps....

     (eds.) The Palestinian Refugees Problem: Traditional Positions and New Solutions. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press (to be published, 2000).
  • with Eickelman, D.F., "From Refugees to Citizens: A Regional Proposal." In Ginat, J. and Perkins, E.J.,(eds.) The Palestinian Refugees Problem: Traditional Positions and New Solutions. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press (to be published, 2000).
  • with Edward J. Perkins
    Edward J. Perkins
    Edward Joseph Perkins is a former American diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, and the United Nations 1992-1993. He was later Director of the US State Department's Diplomatic Corps....

     ( (eds.) The Peace Process Between Israel and Arab Countries: Achievements and Obstacles. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press (to be published, 2000).
  • with Aharoni, R., "The Israeli Arabs and the Peace Process" In Ginat, J. and Perkins, E.J.,(eds.) The Peace Process Between Israel and Arab Countries: Achievements and Obstacles. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press (to be published, 2000).

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