Special thanks to all my hosts in Israel who made my stay so enjoyable and intellectually profitable: Tal Zarsky and Avishalom Tor at Haifa, Michael Oren from the Shalem Center, Avi Bell, Assaf Hamdani and Gideon Parchomovsky at Bar Ilan, Alon Klement at IDC, Doron Teichman at Hebrew U, and Tali Fisher, Ariel Porat, Shai Lavi, Issi Rosen Zvi, Yishai Blank, Aeyal Gross, and Hanoch Dagan at Tel-Aviv University. [read post]