The Unmaking of Israel (46 page)

Oslo and, 104–8

Palmah and, 22

settlement frozen by, 124–25

Rabinovitch, Nachum, 106, 233

Rafi, 66

Ramallah, 57

Ramleh, 49, 202, 219

redemptive Zionism, 3, 91–92, 99, 106, 118, 140, 152, 159–60, 198, 231

Reform Judaism, 36, 120

regional councils, 124, 127

Registrar of NPOs, 217

Religious Front, 41–42

religious Zionism (Orthodox Zionism), 90–93, 96, 106, 158, 164, 173–74, 231–33.
See also
redemptive Zionism

Revisionist Zionists, 16–17, 24, 28

right of return, 73, 224, 246

rights

bill of, 239

freedom of religion, 190

freedom of speech, 33–35

individual and minority, 41–42, 222–23

of non-Jewish citizens, 223

right to human dignity and freedom, basic law (1992), 111

right to pursue livelihood, basic law (1992), 111

Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution (2003), 115–16, 123, 131

Robinson, Shira Nomi, 54

Ronski, Avihai, 149, 153–56

Rotem, David, 214

Rozovsky, Yosef, 187

Rubin, Yishai, 198, 201

Rufeisen, Oswald (Brother Daniel), 244–45

rule of law, 24, 77–80, 82–90, 103, 123–26, 133, 147–48, 226

Russia, 46, 210.
See also
Soviet Union

Sadan, Eli, 141, 159–60

Sadat, Anwar al-, 90

Safed, 47, 49, 217–18

Sapir, Pinhas, 66

Sasson, Talia, 123, 131, 134

Sasson Report, 123, 125, 127–28, 131, 153

Scheinfeld, Moshe, 170

secular Jews, 36, 40, 68, 102, 106, 117–18, 138–39, 143

secular Zionism, 36, 92, 154–55, 164

separation of religion and state, 9, 12–13, 40, 43, 183, 222, 226–27, 234, 236–37, 239–40, 248

settlements and settlers

Allon and, 67–68

crimes vs. Palestinians and, 86–89, 97–102, 121–22

early Zionist values and, 58–61, 68–69, 72, 227

established, post-1967, 8, 56–58, 61, 67–75

first- vs. second-generation, 97–104, 118, 121, 129–31

Geneva Convention and, 73–75

government funding for, 69–70, 72–73, 76, 78, 94–95, 103–4, 109–12, 118–20, 122–31

housing problems and, 185–86

illegal outposts, 101, 104–34, 153, 160, 218–19

Israeli law extended to, 77–80

Israeli-Palestinian talks of 2000 and, 108–9

Jewish Leadership and, 213

land and property rights and, 58, 80–86, 224

military refusals and, 115–18, 134–36, 139, 144, 146–52, 158–62

move deep into West Bank, 93–94

move into mixed cities within Israel, 10, 195–203

need to evacuate, 10–11, 222, 226–30, 232, 238–39

Oslo Accords and, 104–8

planning procedure and, 122–25

post-Oslo, 9, 108–9, 123–25, 128

process for evacuating, 224, 228, 230–35

religious Zionism and, 8–9, 12, 91–104, 129–30

rule of law and, 71, 89

security and, 81

Sharon and, 69, 128

West Bank fence and, 114–15

Shamgar, Meir, 82

Shapira, Avraham, 148, 150

Shapira, Ya’akov Shimshon, 66, 77

Shapira, Yitzhak, 119–20

Sharansky, Natan, 127

Sharett, Moshe (
formerly
Shertok), 45, 48–49, 54

Sharon, Ariel, 9, 35, 142

Beduin expulsion and, 146

coalition of 2003 and, 177

Gaza evacuations and, 115–16

Gilad’s Farm and, 102

illegal outposts and, 124–28, 131

map of settlements by, 69, 105

Oslo and, 106

as prime minister after 2001, 113

Sasson Report and, 123

Temple Mount visit of 2000, 113

West Bank fence and, 113–14, 206–7

Wye summit and, 125–26, 128

Shas, 176, 184–85

Shebab
(
haredi
youth), 188

Shechner, Ron, 124

Shertok, Moshe.
See
Sharett, Moshe

Shilhav, Yosseph, 186

Shin Bet security service, 53, 101, 104

Shlaim, Avi, 62

Shoval, Ronen, 216

Shvut Ami, 100

Sinai Peninsula

Beduin expulsion and, 146

settlements in, 76

Six-Day War and, 8, 62, 63, 65

withdrawal of 1982, 79, 88

Sing Unto the Lord Yeshivah, 97

Situation Committee, 46–49

Six-Day War (1967), 3, 5, 8, 13, 35, 61–65, 90–92, 140–41, 226

Skali, Cheftziba, 121, 131, 233

Skali, Yitzhak, 121

Skali’s Farm, 120–21

Sklar, Lea, 95

Sklar, Moti, 57, 95

socialism, 16, 25, 59–60, 165

Sofer, Moshe, 37

Soviet Union, 22, 32, 54, 210

Spiegel Report, 57, 86

Stalin, Joseph, 210

State Attorney’s Office, 123

Civil Division, 69, 83

Department for Special Assignments, 123

state budget, Israeli, 112, 127, 230

State Education Law, 168, 189

state religious bureaucracy, 39, 166–67, 173–74, 181–82, 245

state religious schools, 3, 9, 39–41, 94, 96, 141, 168, 173, 175, 186–87, 189–91, 237, 239–41

state school system, 37, 39–41, 239–41

Sternberg, Eren, 157

Suez Canal, 62

Supreme Court, Israeli, 8, 137, 239, 244–45

basic laws decision and, 111–12

as High Court of Justice, 33, 81–83, 111, 120, 130–33, 183, 189, 208–9, 218

Kol Ha’am
case and, 32–35

military refusals and, 146–47

settlement cases and, 133

Swirski, Shlomo, 112

Syria, 27, 62–65, 70, 81

Tabenkin, Yitzhak, 22, 70

Tale of Love and Darkness, A
(Oz), 40, 164

Talmon, 100

Talmud, 12, 191, 226

talmudei torah
schools, 180

Tchernichovsky, Shaul, 55

Tel Aviv, 16, 21–23, 67, 202, 205

Tell, 100

Temple, destruction of ancient, 157

Temple Mount, 63

Sharon visit of 2000, 113

Tiberias, 47, 49

Tikochinski, Shlomo, 188

Tirza, Dany, 114

Tolstoy, Alexey, 210

Tomb of the Patriarchs (Ibrahimi Mosque) murders, 107

Torah, 41, 37, 106, 154, 157

Torah jobs, 173–74, 178–80

Toubi, Tawfik, 30

Transjordan, 27, 28, 49, 52.
See also
Jordan

Tsur, Yaacov, 109

Turmusayya, 100

two-state solution, 9, 104, 214, 220, 223–26

Tzaban, Dror, 112

Tzvi, Shabtai, 99

ultra-Orthodox Judaism (
haredi
), 3, 7

child stipends and, 177–79

development of, 163–66

early state assumptions about, 40–41

education and, 9, 31, 39–41

education of, and employment problems, 164–82, 186–91, 241–42

government funding and, 9, 12, 40–41, 165–68, 173–80, 186, 189, 239–42

historical origins of, 36–38

housing and, 185–86

isolation of, 164–65

Jewish law and, 170–73

marriage and, 168–70, 173–74, 178

military and, 38–39, 138, 191–94

population of, 38, 177

secular world and, 170–73, 179–81

state rabbinate and, 181–82

ultra-Orthodox parties, 9, 176, 183–85, 226

Umm al-Fahm, 206–7

Underground Railroad, 147

United Kibbutz Movement, 22–23, 60, 70

United Nations, 213

cease-fire of 1948 and, 16, 21

Goldstone Report and, 216

partition and, 6–7, 17–18, 26–27, 44, 46–48

United Religious Front, 30–31, 38

United States

constitutionalism and, 42

Eban and, 32

ethnocracy and, 11, 46

religion and state and, 239–40

settlements and, 73, 123

Six-Day War and, 64

U.S. Constitution, 11, 34, 43

Upper Galilee Regional Council, 70

Va’ad Le’umi, 16, 24, 47

Wallerstein, Pinchas, 57, 105, 117

War of 1948, 6–7, 15–16, 26, 28, 39, 47–49, 53, 60, 69, 138

Weinstock, Yossi, 142–43

Weisglas, Dov, 115