Making Sense of Risky Haredi Behaviors in Israel During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Belder F.

ULUSLARARASI ILISKILER-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, cilt.19, sa.73, ss.29-44, 2022 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 19 Sayı: 73
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.33458/uidergisi.1085447
  • Dergi Adı: ULUSLARARASI ILISKILER-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Political Science Complete, vLex, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.29-44
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Haredim, Ontological Security, Anxiety, Fear, Autonomy, ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY, WORLD-POLITICS, IDENTITY, ANXIETY
  • Marmara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Covid-19 not only posed a threat to the bodies of individuals or their mental health but also disrupted routines that are re-producing certain communities every day. This is particularly the case for communities with already securitized identities such as the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in Israel. Its authentic narrative, routines and practices that had been sustained thanks to their decades-long autonomy within the state, faced a substantial challenge when the state-led pandemic measures arrived in Haredi towns. This article seeks to explain the Haredi non-compliance with certain pandemic instructions like closing religious and educational centers, through the conceptual lens of an ontological security approach. It argues that the ontological security concerns of the Haredi leadership hampered them from fully complying with the state-led pandemic measures, even at the of the lives of individual Haredim.