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From Government to Opposition: The Rural Settlement Movements of the Israel Labor Party in the Wake of the Election of 1977

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Neal Sherman
Neal Sherman
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Settlement Study CenterRehovot, Israel
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The “Upheaval” (mahapach) of May 1977 brought to an end forty-four years of Labor hegemony in the international institutions of the Zionist movement and twenty-nine years of Labor dominance in the political institutions of the State of Israel. In the wake of the 1977 election, the Israel Labor Party found itself forced into the unfamiliar role of opposition–and with it the rural settlement movements associated with the party.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , February 1982 , pp. 53 - 69
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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Author's Note. The research on which this paper is based was supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, received through the Israel Foundations Trustees. I wish to express my gratitude to these institutions.

I would also like to express my thanks to Professor Dov Weintraub of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and the participants of the Settlement Study Centre staff seminar for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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