About: Prof. Asher Cohen serves as Head of the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University. His publications deal mainly with religion, society and state in Israel, among them: The Tallit and the Flag: Religious Zionism and the Vision of the Torah State During the Early Days of the State (1998); From Accomplishment to Escalation – The Religious-Secular Rift (2003); Non-Jewish Jews – Israeli Jewish Identity and the Challenge of Jewish Nation Expansion (2007).