National Identity in Global Times: Therapy and Satire in Contemporary Israeli Film and Literature

Most research on contemporary Israel acknowledges the dramatic changes that Israel went through in the late eighties. The narrative is by now familiar and shares a great deal with other countries going through similar changes.1 Since the 1980s Israel has been on an increasingly quick and thorough track of economic and cultural privatization. This manifests itself in the weakening of state influence in economic and cultural fields, and has visible influence on all spheres of society.