The Unmaking of Israel (43 page)

elected leadership, 8–9, 184

equality and, 43, 204–6, 222–24, 226, 235–38

High Court of Justice on rights of, 111

housing discrimination vs., 205, 207–9, 217–18

Jaffa and, 202

Jewish settlers in mixed cities and, 10, 195–205

Knesset and, 30, 206

land and, 52–53, 208–9, 217

military and, 138, 145, 238

military government of, 53–54, 205

policing of, 219

population and, 28

schools plan, 47–48

security fence and, 206–7

seen as enemy, 10, 53, 195–98, 204, 207–8, 210–15

voting and, 54

West Bank Palestinians vs., 65, 206–7

Arabic language, 237

Arab intellectuals, 55, 206

Arab Legion, 49

Arab parties, 183–85, 206, 226

Arafat, Yasser, 125–26

Ariel, Uri, 203

Ariel, Yisrael, 233

armistice of 1949, 27–28, 49, 61

Association for Civil Rights in Israel, 208, 215

Atarot, 64

Ateret Kohanim yeshivah, 153

Aviner, Shlomo, 150–51, 153–55

Azaryahu, Sini, 61–63

Azzun Atma, 114–15

Bamahaneh
(magazine), 144

Bani Na’im, 86

Bank of Israel, 109

Baqa al-Gharbiyah, 208

Barak, Aharon, 147

Barak, Ehud, 108, 113, 128, 161

Bar-Ilan University, 90, 107

Bar-Lev, Haim, 82

Bar-Yehudah, Yisrael, 41

basic laws, 31, 111, 239

Beduin

expulsion from northern Sinai (1972), 146

Be’eri, Dan, 106–7

Begin, Menachem

Altalena
and, 16–21, 23, 25

Ben-Gurion vs., 28

coalition with ultra-Orthodox and, 174–78

constitution and, 41, 43

German reparations and, 55

settlements and, 68–69, 80, 82–83

Six-Day War and, 63, 65

Beinisch, Dorit, 133, 137

Beitar Illit, 185–88

Beit Dajan, 121–22

Beit El, 86, 133, 150, 201, 202

Beit Shean, 47, 49

Beit Ya’akov seminaries, 167

Beit Yatir academy, 150

Believe and Plant fund, 116

Bemuna company, 202

Ben-David, Ariel, 202

Ben-Eliezer, Binyamin, 102

Ben-Gurion, David, 184, 194

Altalena
and, 15–16, 18–20, 22–24

Arabs and, 45, 47–49, 51, 54

armistice and, 27–28

coalition with United Religious Front and, 30–31, 38–40

constitution and, 41–43

Kol Ha’am
case and, 32–35, 112

mamlakhtiut
and, 30–31

resignation of, 54

Whole Land and, 28

Ben-Porat, Eran, 187

Benziman, Uzi, 64

Besheva
(newspaper), 136, 151, 160, 199

Bethlehem, 43, 63, 65

Bet Zouri, Eliahu, 197

Bialik, Haim Nahman, 55

Bible, 12, 36–37, 63, 97–101, 118.
See also
Torah

Bilin

land dispute, 85

Birkat Moshe yeshivah, 106

Bnei Akiva, 90, 94

Bnei David academy, 141–42, 144, 159–60

borders.
See also
Green Line

Allon and, 67

birth of state and, 26–28

democracy and, 89

future Palestinian state and, 229

Oslo and, 126

partition plan and, 44

reestablishing, 226, 232, 235, 238–39, 247

West Bank fence and, 114

Botavia, Moshe, 135–37

Bozaya, Ibthisam, 118

Brasher, Brenda, 239–40

Breaking the Silence, 155–56, 215

Britain, 27, 46, 83

British Mandate, 16–18, 24, 27, 32–33, 38, 47, 51, 53, 76–77, 91

B’Tselem, 215

Bush, George W., 115

cabinet, Israeli, 104

illegal outposts and, 124–28

settlements and, 68–69, 73–76, 102

Six-Day War and, 64–67

Camp David summit of 2000, 108, 113

Cast Lead.
See
Gaza Strip, invasion of 2009

Central Bureau of Statistics, 109

Central Command, 142

Chazan, Naomi, 216

Chetboun, Yehonatan, 219

children

freedom of religion and, 190

stipends for, 175–77

cinema industry, 214–15

citizenship.
See also
Arab (Palestinian) citizens of Israel

loyalty oath and, 214–15

military service and, 138–39

naturalization and, 246

citizenship law (1952), 50

Civil Administration (West Bank), 56, 101–2, 127, 130

civil service, 214

Clinton, Bill, 125

Cohen, Bezalel, 177–78, 188–89

Cohen, Nachshon, 198–99

Collapse
(Diamond), 58

Committee of Rabbis in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, 106

Communist Party, 29–30, 32–34, 41, 53–54, 184

community settlements, 93–96.
See also specific settlements

inside Israel, 207–9, 218

Constituent Assembly, 28

constitution

basic laws as, 111–12, 239

debate over, 28, 30–31, 34, 41–43

conversion, 182–83, 245–46

Council of Settlements in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, 57, 102, 116, 121, 128, 130, 132

Custodian for Governmental and Abandoned Property, 83–85

Danon, Danny, 216

Dayan, Moshe, 20–21, 62, 65–66, 69, 75, 77–78, 146

declaration of independence, Israeli, 7, 16, 18, 27, 34

Defense Ministry, Israeli, 30, 128, 132–33, 207

Deganyah, 60

Deir Nidham, 4

Deir Yassin massacre, 48

democracy

Allon map and, 67

Arab citizenship and, 13, 43–44, 50–52, 96, 111–12

constitution and, 41–43

depoliticizing army and, 235

development of, in Israel, 7–11, 26, 32, 35–36

education and, 95–96, 241

elections of 1949 and, 7, 28–29

equality and, 43, 222–24

individual rights and, 32

Jewish state and, 28, 43–44, 64, 77, 103, 222–23, 235–36

Kol Ha’am
case and, 32–36

military government over Arabs and, 54

non-Jewish citizenry and, 51

occupation and settlements and, 4–5, 70, 77, 89–90, 103–4, 111–12, 133, 194, 208–9, 220

reestablishing ideals of, 13, 221–23, 226, 241, 248

Six-Day War and, 64

ultra-Orthodox and, 7, 167, 172–73, 190–91

Democratic List of Nazareth, 30

Development Authority, 52

Diamond, Jared, 58–49

Diaspora, 51, 177, 236–37, 247–38

Diskin, Yehoshua Leib, 187

divorce laws, 181–83

Dome of the Rock, 88

Drori, Ze’ev, 193–94

Druckman, Haim, 161–62

Eastern European Jews, 6, 36, 38, 172, 174

East Jerusalem, 9, 88, 105, 109, 203

annexation of, 64, 67, 229

Eban, Abba, 32

Eckstein, Shlomo, 107

economy, 5, 9, 177, 224–25, 241–42

education

Allon and, 67

Arab schools and, 47, 111, 205–6, 236

core curriculum and, 189, 240–41

free, compulsory, 31, 167

funding for, 94–95, 111–12

national system created, 168

parental choice and, 237

party control of, 31

religion and, 240–41

state secular and religious schools established, 29, 36–37, 39–41

ultra-Orthodox, 94–95, 110–12, 167–69, 173–76, 178–80, 186–91

Education Ministry, Israeli, 4, 95, 120, 189

Egypt, 27, 62–65

peace treaty of 1979 and, 79, 88

Ein Yabrud, 72

Eitam, Effie, 127–28

Elazar, General, 62, 70

elections

of 1949, 28–29

of 1951, 31

of 1969, 78

of 1977, 8

of 1992, 183–84

of 1996, 107, 211

of 1999, 211–12

of 2003, 177

of 2006, 183–84, 212–13