1st Edition

Geography and Politics in Israel Since 1967

By Elisha Efrat Copyright 1989
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1988. The 1984 election campaign in Israel and its outcome have highlighted among other things the difference of opinion among Israelis on the future of the Occupied Territories, on the desirable geographical dimensions of the country and on the possibility of Jewish-Arab coexistence in the various regions of the Land of Israel. This book, dealing with geography and politics in Israel since 1967, is the first attempt of its kind to analyse current political events against the background of the geographical space in which they took place, and is based on a follow up, record and study of the events of recent years. The book highlights the physical background as a factor in the development of the political events as well as their relative importance. The various chapters therefore treat subjects of great interest and importance for life in Israel today, such as the future of Greater Jerusalem, the problematics of settlement in Judea-Samaria, the fate of the Gaza Strip and its relations with Israel, the status of the Golan Heights, the withdrawal from Sinai and establishment of the Shalom region, and also the problems within Israel proper: the Judaization of Galilee, the populating of the Negev, land as a political problem and border settlement in Israel.

    The Times Higher Education Supplement- a valuable and revealing study Jewish Chronicle-1988 This study makes essential reading not only for the political pundit, but for anyone interested in the character and complexion of the Jewish State as it moves forward into the 1990s Judaica Book News- For any journalist, educator, or serious researcher dealing with Israeli politics, geography, the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli conflicts, this book is very highly recommended...Efrat provides a real service in making a very complicated and occasionally abstruse subject readily comprehensible to the non-geographical layman International Affairs- Contrary to ones usual reaction to professional jargon, in this book it comes as a welcome relief and defuses, as it were, the emotionally charged and complex nature of this international dispute...This book will prove valuable to those interested in Israel Choice- This book is welcome because it is the first to approach the Israeli-Palestine conflict from the perspective of geography and demography

    Biography

    Elisha Efat Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University