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of 2009, 212, 213–14
Eliahu, Ariel, 193
Eliahu, Mordechai, 116, 193, 198
Eliahu, Schmuel, 198, 217–18
Eli, 141
Elisha academy, 1–5, 151, 218
Elitzur, Yosef, 119–20
Elon Moreh, 82–83, 152, 198, 202
Emergency Regulations (1945), 53
employment
Arabs vs. Jews and, 53
ultra-Orthodox and, 169, 178–81, 186–91, 241
Eshkol, Levi, 55, 61, 64–65, 73, 75
ethnocracy, 5, 11
Ethnocracy
(Yiftachel), 5
Etzion, Yehudah, 58, 88
Europe, 6, 17, 26, 36–37, 44–45, 91

 

fertility, 110, 166, 169, 174–77
Fighters List, 29
Filber, Yaakov, 91, 92
Finance Ministry, Israeli, 109, 112
Foreign Ministry, Israeli, 76
Friedman, Menachem, 38, 165, 169, 189
Fund for Redemption of the Land, 84–85
Fur’ata, 100–101

 

Gal, Reuven, 145
Galilee, 27, 70
Galili, Yisrael, 15–16, 18–20, 23, 61, 63, 65, 69, 80
Ganim evacuation, 136
Gans, Chaim, 222, 238
Gaza Strip, 5
evacuation of 2005, 103, 109, 115–18, 130, 135–36, 148–53, 157–60, 212, 231, 233
invasion of 2009, 154–58, 216
one- vs. two-state solution and, 224–25
Palestinian Authority and, 105
Palestinian self-rule and, 9, 79
settlements and, 78–79, 108
Six-Day War and, 8, 63, 65
Gazit, Shlomo, 74–75
General Zionist Party, 29
Geneva Accord (2003), 229
Geneva Convention, Fourth, 73–77
Germany, 17, 38, 43
Gilad’s Farm, 97–98, 100–104, 131, 156–57
Ginsburg, Yitzhak, 118–20, 129
Glick, Moshe, 84–85
God of Vengeance
(Asch), 203–4
Golan Heights
annexation of, 79
settlements and, 70–72, 76, 81
Six-Day War and, 8, 63
Golani, Motti, 138
Goldstein, Baruch, 107, 119
Goldstone Report, 216
Gordon, A. D., 60
Gouri, Haim, 28
gray refusal, 139, 150–51
Grays vs. Greens, 128–29, 132–33
Green Line, 28, 67, 78, 80, 84, 89, 91, 93, 94, 110, 113–14, 158–59, 179, 186, 203, 206, 207, 220, 228–29
Gush Emunim, 57, 71–72, 82, 93, 94
Gutoff, Joshua, 191

 

Ha’aretz
(newspaper), 32, 128, 166
Haganah, 16–18, 23–24, 48, 197
Hagar, Moshe, 150
Hague Regulations (1907), 80–81
Haifa, 47, 49
Hakim, Eliahu, 197
halakhah
.
See
Jewish religious law
Halutz, Dan, 148, 153
Hapoel Hamizrahi, 23, 29
Har Brakhah, 160
haredim
.
See
ultra-Orthodox
Harel, Itay, 132
Harel, Yisrael, 57, 132
Har Etzion yeshivah, 149
Harlap, Ya’akov Moshe, 100
Haviv, Itai, 146
Hazon Ish.
See
Karlitz, Avraham Yeshayahu
Hebrew University, 67
Hebron, 43, 71, 198
crimes vs. Palestinians in, 86–88, 107, 119
Six-Day War and, 63, 65, 67
Herut, 28, 41, 42, 54, 55
hesder
yeshivot, 140–42, 148–49, 153, 159–62, 183, 193, 195–200, 202, 233–34
Hever, Ze’ev, 88, 102, 128
Histadrut, 29, 47
Hneini, Aziz, 121–22
Holocaust, 24, 38, 55, 116, 138, 172, 244
housing
discrimination and, 217–18, 236
settlements and, 76, 110, 124, 185–86
Housing Ministry, Israeli, 2, 84, 108, 121, 127–28
2003 report on, 109
human rights, 103, 111–12,
human rights organizations, 90, 100, 111, 122, 131, 209, 215–17, 248

 

Ibrahimi Mosque (Tomb of the Patriarchs) murders of 1994, 107
immigration, 242–46
early Jewish, 6, 19–20, 24, 31, 45, 59–60, 197
future of Jewish, 242–47
Jews and right of, 50–51, 215, 244–45
non-Jewish, 215, 242–46
Soviet Jewish, 196, 198, 211
Im Tirtzu, 215–16
Independent on Sunday, The
(newspaper), 74
Interior Ministry, Israeli, 27, 32–33, 47, 110, 124
International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia, 74
international law, 58, 64, 72–75, 80–81, 84, 89
Intifada
First (1987), 104, 139, 187–88
Second (2000), 95–96, 101, 113, 136, 139, 144, 177
Irgun Tzva’i Le’umi, 16–25, 48
Islamic Movement, 112
Israel, state of
as Accidental Empire, 8–9, 63
Arab lands and property, 49, 51–52
declaration of independence, 7, 16, 18, 27, 34
dismantling of, 2, 10, 89–90
founded, 6–7, 16–30, 38, 44–52, 226
future of, 4–5, 10, 222–48
historical parallels with, 10–12
Jewish identity and, 31
Jewish majority and, 45–46, 64
as sacred, 12–13, 31
Israel Broadcasting Authority, 57
Israel Defense Forces (IDF), 1–2, 9, 13, 213, 144–62
71st Battalion, 20
89th Battalion, 20
Arab service in, 238
Beduin expulsion and, 146
communal nature of, 145
crimes by settlers and, 88–89
depoliticization of, 233–35
early Israel and, 18–23, 27, 30
evacuation of settlements and, 9, 115–16, 135–38, 148–52, 158–62
Gaza evacuation of 2005 and, 148–52
Gaza invasion of 2009 and, 154–57
Givati Brigade, 151, 157
Golani Brigade, 143–44, 151
human rights groups and, 215–17
illegal outposts and, 126–27
Kfir Brigade, 160–61, 194
Manpower Branch, 192
Nahal unit, 74–75
Netzah Yehuda Battalion, 191–94, 234
noncombatants and, 119, 154–58
Northern Command, 70
Orthodox influence in, 3–4, 23, 134–44, 148–56, 161–62, 233–35
refusals and, 13, 135–39, 144–53, 155–62, 233–35
settlers’ antipathy to, 101, 156–58
Shimshon Battalion, 161
ultra-Orthodox avoidance of service, 169
West Bank fence and, 114–15
West Bank governments and, 78–79, 233–35
Yom Kippur War and, 81
Israel Is Our Home, 211–16
Israel Religious Action Center, 120
Itamar, 128, 153

 

Jabareen, Tawfiq, 207
Jabotinsky, Ze’ev, 17
Jaffa, 49, 202–3, 205
Jenin, 136
Jericho, 114
Jerusalem, 38–39, 44–45, 48–49, 63–64, 72, 114, 130–31, 153, 163–65.
See also
East Jerusalem
Jewish Agency, 16–18, 24, 45, 47, 70–71, 204–5, 208–9, 236
Settlement Department, 60–61, 70
Jewish Leadership, 213–14
Jewish National Fund (JNF), 51–53, 59, 204–5, 236
Jewish religious law (
halakhah
), 98, 102, 154–55, 166–67, 170–72, 244–45
Jewish state, ideal of, 28, 38–39, 43–44, 64, 77, 103, 222–23, 235–36
Jewish terror underground of 1980s, 58, 88, 101
Jews
defining who qualifies as, 181–82, 244–45
as nationality, 36–37
Jordan, 17, 62, 69, 81, 83.
See also
Transjordan
judicial review, 35, 112, 239

 

Ka’adan, Aadel, 208–9, 218
Ka’adan, Iman, 208–9, 218
Kadimah, 183–84, 213–14, 218
Kadim, 136
Kahane, Meir, 129, 157
Kaplan, Eliezer, 47
Kaplan, Lawrence, 171
Karlitz, Avraham Yeshayahu (Hazon Ish), 168, 170–72
Karp Report, 86–89, 122
Katif Bloc, 135, 162, 186
Katzir, 208–9
Kfar Darom, 117, 135–36
Kfar Etzion, 71, 73–75, 140
battle of, 49, 73
Kfar Maimon, 116–18, 130
Kfar Vitkin, 15–16, 19–21, 162
Khalidi, Rashid, 44
kibbutzim, 59–61, 90, 93, 138, 145
Kifl Harith, 118
Kiryat Arba, 86–87, 106–7, 121, 135, 137, 140, 152, 157
Kiryati Brigade, 21, 22
Knesset, 28–31, 41–43, 50, 52, 55, 77–78, 113, 168, 183, 211–17

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