@article{1479864,
      recid = {1479864},
      author = {Levy, Yagil,  and Lee, Wayne E., },
      title = {Israel's Death Hierarchy : Casualty Aversion in a  Militarized Democracy /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {2012 Winner of the Shapiro Award for the Best Book in  Israel Studies, presented by the Association for Israel  StudiesWhose life is worth more?That is the question that  states inevitably face during wartime. Which troops are  thrown to the first lines of battle and which ones remain  relatively intact? How can various categories of civilian  populations be protected? And when front and rear are  porous, whose life should receive priority, those of  soldiers or those of civilians? In Israel's Death  Hierarchy, Yagil Levy uses Israel as a compelling case  study to explore the global dynamics and security  implications of casualty sensitivity. Israel, Levy argues,  originally chose to risk soldiers mobilized from privileged  classes, more than civilians and other soldiers. However,  with the mounting of casualty sensitivity, the state  gradually restructured what Levy calls its "death  hierarchy" to favor privileged soldiers over soldiers drawn  from lower classes and civilians, and later to place enemy  civilians at the bottom of the hierarchy by the use of  heavy firepower. The state thus shifted risk from soldiers  to civilians. As the Gaza offensive of 2009 demonstrates,  this new death hierarchy has opened Israel to global  criticism.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479864},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814753347.001.0001},
}