以色列中国学研究大致经历了三个不同的发展阶段。20世纪60年代末到90年代初是以色列中国学研究的萌芽和起步阶段。1992年中以建交到2007年是以色列中国学研究的快速成长和爆发期。2008年后，在双边关系改善和中国持续崛起引发的“溢出效应”等因素影响下，以色列中国学研究进入了一个稳步成长和繁荣时期。这不仅表现为研究机构对中国关注度的上升，研究群体的扩大，还表现为研究成果的增多，研究议题和研究方法的日趋多元化等。但是，以色列中国学研究迄今仍未能摆脱明显的“二元悖论”困境。这既体现为其汉学研究传统与中国学研究的社会科学化趋势之间的矛盾，也体现为强大的国际化研究能力与其研究成果的民族化或本土化特征缺失之间的矛盾。
China studies in Israel have gone through three different periods. The first period is from the end of the 1960s to the beginning of the 1990s，which is the budding and starting stage of Israel’s China studies. The second period is from 1992 to 2007，which is the time of rapid growth and explosion of Israel’s China studies. The third period starts from 2008，due to factors like the spillover effect of China’s emerging as a global power，the improvement of bilateral relations，etc.，Since then，China studies in Israel has entered into a period of steady growth and prosperity. This is not only manifested in the increasing interest of research institutes and the expansion of research groups，but also in the increasing number of research results and the growing diversification of research topics and methods. However，Israel’s China studies is still unable to get rid of the obvious “dichotomy paradox”，which is reflected in the contradiction between its Sinology studies tradition and the momentum of social sciences studies，as well as the contradiction between its strong internationalized research capacity and the lack of national or local features in its research findings.
