Einat Cohen

Toxicity of chloronitrobenzenes toFusarium oxysporum and rhizoctonia solani as related to their structure

The structure-activity relationship of several chlorinated nitrobenzenes was studied using two soilborne fungi,Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.melonis Snyder and Hansen andRhizoctonia solarii Kühn. Fungitoxicity increased with the increase in number of chlorine substituents and was also affected by the position of the halogens on the phenyl ring. A linear relationship was obtained when the fungitoxicity values (EC50) of the compounds were plotted against their lipophilicity values calculated from octanol-water partition coefficient π.R.solarii was much more sensitive thanF. oxysporum to chloronitrobenzenes, particularly with respect to the pentachloro derivative.

Survival, an Israeli Ju Jutsu school of martial arts Violence, body, practice and the national

■ Nationalism is the untenable union of the impersonal, mechanistic, bureaucratic logic of the state and the intimate, emotional, organic logic of the nation. While practicing martial arts, the participants at the Israeli Survival School of Ju Jutsu create a utopian Israeliness, using bits of state-national understandings to form a family-like organicity. At the North Indian school of wrestling described by Joseph Alter, too, an organic utopian nationalism is practiced into existence through meticulous care for the body itself. A comparison between those modes of embodying the national, set in very different cultural and national realities, reveals not only different understandings of the national and of its organic nature, but also different uses of semiotic mechanisms. Whereas the Israeli world of the Survival School is based on representation, the Indian one is constructed from the body and the environment, set in dense connectedness forming this world in and of itself.

Once We Put Our Helmets On, There are No More Friends: The ‘‘Fights’’ Session in the Israeli Army Course for Close-Combat Instructors:

At their final training session, soldiers at the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) close-combat instructors’ course are faced with an extreme situation. Clad in full protection gear, they must face consecutive opponent and fight until they can fight no more. The training setting presents to the soldiers a dilemma epitomized in the instructor’s question ‘‘Do you want to quit?’’ The author argues that the question, as well as, the situation as a whole presents the trainees with a paradox that seems at first to be a moral dilemma. However, since the training setting simulates real battle, the question which also has an existential facet, is in fact a pseudo moral dilemma, reversing the order of self-interest and self-regard.

Abstracts of papers presented at the 4th Meeting on Pheromone Research in Israel Abstracts of papers presented at the 9th Congress of the Phytopathological Society of Israel

S OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE 4TH MEETING ON PHEROMONE

Events of organicity: The state abducts the war machine

A brief and schematic presentation of two ethnographic events illustrates the dynamic engendered by the clash between the state as striated and organicity. This clash is the Deleuzian war machine. The ethnographic events are part of Israeli nationality: one shows a close combat training session within the Israeli Defense Forces and the other a recording of Holocaust survivors’ stories for educational purposes. Both are instances in which somaticity is channelled into the national through abduction. The body animates and cultivates the mixed dynamic of nationality, infusing its forces of striation and congealment with life. Although Deleuze and Guattari posit that the war machine is born from the nomad as it encounters the state, and that it is external to the state, the following analysis of the ways in which the war machine operates within the national clearly shows that the war machine can be both a requirement and a product of the state. The forces of striation are just as unstable as the forces of rhizome. They tend to crumble and fall apart when the impetus of stasis becomes too overwhelming. To remain socially tenable, the striated craves the organic nature of the nomad, and depends on the emergence of the war machine.A brief and schematic presentation of two ethnographic events illustrates the dynamic engendered by the clash between the state as striated and organicity. This clash is the Deleuzian war machine. The ethnographic events are part of Israeli nationality: one shows a close combat training session within the Israeli Defense Forces and the other a recording of Holocaust survivors’ stories for educational purposes. Both are instances in which somaticity is channelled into the national through abduction. The body animates and cultivates the mixed dynamic of nationality, infusing its forces of striation and congealment with life. Although Deleuze and Guattari posit that the war machine is born from the nomad as it encounters the state, and that it is external to the state, the following analysis of the ways in which the war machine operates within the national clearly shows that the war machine can be both a requirement and a product of the state. The forces of striation are just as unstable as the forces of rhi...

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 10th Conference of the Weed Science Society of Israel

S O F PAPERS PRESENTED AT T H E 10TH C O N F E R E N C E O F T H E W E E D S C I E N C E S O C I E T Y O F