Implementation of the UN Declaration on Victims in Israel

תקציר

Israel and Israelis have in many respects pioneered the field of victimology. Advocate Beniamin Mendelsohn, originally a resident of Roumania, immigrated to Israel soon after the foundation of the state, where he died in Jerusalem last year. Prof. Israel Drapkin organized the First International Symposium in Jerusalem in 1973 – thereby placing victimology on the map as an internationally recognized field of academic study – and subsequently as an international movement. A tradition was thereby established for Israelis to contribute to this developing academic field, whether by participating in (and organizing) subsequent international symposia, publishing in (and editing) academic journals in the area of victimology etc.