Ornit Shani
Ornit Shani is an Israeli academic, author and professor at the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Haifa. She won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize in 2018 for her book ''How India Became Democratic.'' Her previous book is ''Communalism, Caste, and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat'' which covers identity and caste politics, the rise of Hindu nationalism, Indian citizenship, democracy and the history of elections. References

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Israelis
Israelis ( he, יִשְׂרָאֵלִים‎, translit=Yīśrāʾēlīm; ar, الإسرائيليين, translit=al-ʾIsrāʾīliyyin) are the citizens and nationals of the State of Israel. The country's populace is composed primarily of Jews and Arabs, who respectively account for 75 percent and 20 percent of the national figure; followed by other ethnic and religious minorities, who account for 5 percent. Early Israeli culture was largely defined by communities of the Jewish diaspora who had made '' aliyah'' to British Palestine from Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Later Jewish immigration from Ethiopia, the states of the former Soviet Union, and the Americas introduced new cultural elements to Israeli society and have had a profound impact on modern Israeli culture. Since Israel's independence in 1948, Israelis and people of Israeli descent have a considerable diaspora, which largely overlaps with the Jewish diaspora b ...
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