The Unmaking of Israel (45 page)

Akko report and, 200

Arab citizens and, 206–7

Education Committee, 167

Finance Committee, 175

Israel Is Our Home and, 211–14

Law Committee, 214

ultra-Orthodox and, 175–76, 189

Kol Ha’am
case, 32–35, 112

kollel
students, 164, 168–69, 172–74, 177–80, 188–89

Kook, Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen (elder), 91, 100

Kook, Tzvi Yehudah (younger), 91–93, 99–100, 141

Kretzmer, David, 82

Labor Party, 92, 142

coalition of 2009, 214

election of 1992, 183, 184

Kadimah and, 213

Mapai coalition and, 66

settlements and, 66, 68–69, 72

Labor Zionism, 59–60, 68, 92

Lahav, Pnina, 33–35

Lam, Yosef, 42–43

land

Arab citizens and, 207–9, 236

ownership rights and, 51–53, 58, 80–86, 110, 121, 122, 126–27, 132–33, 205, 236

land-swap proposal, 229

land-use laws, 58, 205

Law of Return (1950), 50, 224, 244–45

Law of the King, The
(Shapira and Elitzur), 119–20

League of Nations, 17, 76

Lebanon, 5, 27, 142, 157, 235

invasion of 1982, 139, 146

left Zionists, 16, 51

Lehi, 17, 20, 29, 48, 197

Leibowitz, Yeshayahu, 12–13, 40, 66, 220, 239, 240

Levac, Alex, 166

Levenstein, Meir David, 41

Levi, Keren, 158

Levinger, Moshe, 71–72, 87–88, 91

Levinstein, Yigal, 141–42

Levy, Yagil, 152

Levy, Yitzhak, 108

Liberal Party, 55

Lieberman, Avigdor, 124, 210–15, 217

Likud, 8, 210–14, 216, 219

coalition with Agudat Yisrael, 174–76

settlements and, 69, 79, 86, 92, 94, 207–8

Livni, Tzipi, 114, 214

Lod, 49, 219, 201–2

Ma’aleh Adumim, 81, 106, 108–9, 229

Ma’aleh Mikhmas, 86

Mahmeed, Hashem, 207

Maimonides, Moses, 171

Mali, Eliyahu, 202

mamlakhtiut
policy, 30–31, 149, 159

Mapai

Arab policy and, 53–54

birth of Israel and, 16, 29–30

coalition with United Religious Front, 30–31, 38–39

constitution and, 41–43

Labor Party and, 66

Six-Day War and, 63

Mapam, 22, 23, 28–30

Arab policy and, 54

constitution and, 41–43

Six-Day War and, 63

Margalit, Avishai, 11, 117

marriage

arranged, 180–81

civil, 183, 240

religious control of, 39, 181–83, 239, 240

Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, 105, 122, 126, 132

Mazuz, Meni, 131

Meir, Golda, 47, 146

Melamed, Eliezer, 160–62

Meron, Theodor, 73–75

Middle Eastern Jews, 138, 176, 208

Migron, 131–33

military draft, 3–4, 18, 138, 145–46, 158, 241

deferments 3, 39, 169, 175

exemptions for Arabs, 238

exemptions for Orthodox women, 175

military government

Arab population within Israel and, 53–54, 204

occupied territories and 89

Ministerial Settlement Committee, 69

Mintz, Adi, 128

Mitzna, Amram, 142

Mizrahi, 29, 37–38

Modi’in Illit, 185

Mofaz, Shaul, 124, 128

moshavim (cooperative villages), 60–61, 93, 138

Moyne, Lord, assassination of, 197

municipal governments, 57, 110

mystical nationalism, 91–92

Nablus

olive grove attacks near, 97–100

settlements near, 118–19, 128, 158, 160

West Bank fence and, 114

Nahal Brigade, 140

Nahal outposts, 75

Nahariyah, 27

Nakba (the Catastrophe), 7, 246

Naor, Arye, 176

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 62

National Insurance Institute, 78, 178

national priority areas, 110, 111

National Religious Party, 93, 127, 176

coalition of 1999 and, 108

coalition with Mapai, 90

state religious schools and, 39–40

National Union, 203, 212, 214

Neeman, Yaakov, 214

Nekuda
(magazine), 106, 201, 202

Netanyahu, Benjamin, 9

child stipends and, 177

elections of 1996 and, 107, 124, 211

elections of 1999 and, 108

elections of 2009 and, 213–15

illegal outposts and, 124–26

Oslo and, 106, 107

Wye summit and, 125–26

Neveh Dekalim, 116, 135–36

Neveh Tzuf, 4

Neveh Ya’akov, 64

New Israel Fund (NIF), 215–16

Nissim, Yitzhak, 151

Nitei Meir school, 186–88

Nokdim, 211

occupied territories.
See
Palestinian Arabs; settlements and settlers;
and specific territories

Od Yosef Hai yeshivah, 118–20, 153, 233

Ofrah, 56–58, 72, 85–86, 93–96, 105, 108–9, 118, 126, 128, 132, 152, 208

Olam Katan
, 218–19

Olmert, Ehud, 183, 212

one-state solution, 223–25, 232

Orthodox Judaism, 8, 69, 71, 73, 87, 102, 149, 231.
See also
ultra-Orthodox Judaism

birth of Israel and, 30–31, 36–38, 40–41

illegal outposts and, 129–30

military and, 2–4, 23, 140–44, 148–53, 156–62

Oslo and, 106

police recruitment and, 218–19

premilitary academies and, 141–43, 150–51

schools and, 29, 39–40, 95–96

settlements and, 232–33

transformed by occupation, 90–95

Orthodox parties, 30–31, 38–39, 41–43

Orthodox Zionism.
See
Orthodox Judaism, religious Zionism

Oslo Accord (1993), 2, 9, 103–8

illegal outposts and, 123–25

Wye summit and, 125–26

Ottoman rule, 39, 83, 84

Oz, Amos, 40, 163–65

Palestine, pre-partition

Bible and, 98–100

population of, 6

Palestine Liberation Organization, 103

Palestinian Arabs.
See also
Arab (Palestinian) citizens of Israel

crimes vs., 86–89, 122, 129

disenfranchisement of, 8, 96

family reunification and, 54

High Court of Justice and, 81–82

land of, 57, 79, 81–85, 132–33

Law of Return and, 224, 246

military government over, 88–89

nationalism and, 55, 104

as noncombatants, 154–58

one-state solution and, 224–25, 232

partition and, 6–7

peoplehood of, 103

population of, 49, 64, 66

pre-Israeli statehood, 24

reconciliation and, 246

self-governing authority and, 79

settlements and fragmentation of, 2, 69

two-state solution and, 103, 246

war of 1948 and, 5–7, 26, 44–53

West Bank fence and, 114–15

Palestinian Authority, 26, 105, 126

Palestinian citizens of Israel.
See
Arab (Palestinian) citizens of Israel

Palestinian state, proposed, 9, 228, 231–32, 246.
See also
two-state proposal

Palmah, 21–23, 60, 71

Paparin, Sara, 199

partition, 18, 26–28, 44–49

Peace Now, 90, 112, 130

Peel Commission, 46, 60

Peres, Shimon, 58, 69, 72, 107

Perry, Yaakov, 104

planning process, 122–26, 205

Pnei Hever, 203

Poland, 17, 38, 43

police, 53, 86–89, 101, 122, 130–31, 151–52, 218–19

Porat, Hanan, 71–73, 91, 117

premilitary academies, 3–4, 141–44, 150–51, 156, 159, 202, 218–19, 234

Press Ordinance (1933), 32–34

pro-democracy groups, 111–12

Raananim, 219

rabbinic courts, 181–83

Rabin, Yitzhak

Altalena
and, 25

assassination of, 107–8, 185, 233

election of 1992 and, 184–85

Ofrah and, 58, 72, 105–6