Dr. Anat Helman, a professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of the new book Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s. She explores with host Gilad Halpern the everyday practices adopted by the early Israelis, which reflected their reception of the cultural project of Zionism.

Song: Idan Raichel - Ma'agalim

This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.