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Opinion | The man who put the settlers in the stream Israel today

2021-12-21T21:07:04.053Z


Whether in laying the foundations for the Yesha Council, whether in the foundation of the journal "Nekuda" or in the initiative of the "Institute for Zionist Strategy" - Israel Harel's enterprise was to normalize the settler


This week, 41 years ago, Israel Harel founded the basis for the establishment of the Yesha Council. An extraordinary conference was held in Yad Shapira in Gush Etzion on December 24, 1980, led by Harel. Function similar to other settlement pressure groups - mainly like the national kibbutz or the united kibbutz.

And so, alongside Gush Emunim, the settlers of Yesha became "uncontrollable savages" to whom the establishment could talk. Harel created from them the image of the Mapainik, the settlement activists, and thus penetrated them into the corridors of the establishment.

This was not the last time that Harel was required to dismantle and reassemble the settler identity.

And as always happens when creating cultural change - it always takes place in the face of criticism, both from the Israelis, whom Harel sought to influence, and from the settler community whom he sought to save from itself.

He did so when he founded the magazine "Nakuda" that year, and decided that media people and agenda designers would emerge from the "winging" community.

And it happened.

And if these two steps initiated by Harel were difficult for the Israeli elite to digest - the introduction of the "lunatics from the hills" into the public administration and the media arena - then his third initiative was really unforgivable, when he initiated the "Institute for Zionist Strategy".

As part of this move, Harel argued that there were major issues at stake from "another dunam and another goat", due to the preoccupation with the character of the state, in what seemed to be the preoccupation with writing a constitution and later becoming a partnership, certainly accelerating the writing of a Basic Law: Nationality. Harel was in fact part of a broad move - alongside organizations such as the College of Political Science and others - that urged right-wing and conservative actors who sought to influence the state of the country, to do so by joining think tanks and research institutes, and launching into the academic arena; These spaces were foreign to his fellow Jews in Judea and Samaria, but someone like him was well aware that not only the papers were written in them, but also the legitimacy of the projects he and his colleagues sought to establish in the field after the Yom Kippur War.

Harel belongs to those agents who identify the transformations required so that alongside “hard” facts there will be friendship with the world of ideas.

He promotes the need to mark the right battles, not to walk as a blind man to the extremist leaderships of rabbis, and most of all to turn to Israeliness.

To all Israeliness.

For she is, in his view, the recipient and the partner.

It is not for nothing that his writing is currently carried out in the Haaretz newspaper, and he certainly does not consider it the newspaper of the impurity.

It is a pity that his colleagues on the right do not read - not only Torio but also his newspaper, even to get to know the language, the space, and another side - even if left-wing - in Israeliness.

If the leaders of religious Zionism today were like Israel Harel, a government would not be disqualified because an Arab party sits in it or a left-wing minister or LGBT member. It would be examined according to its policy. Against Palestinians or useless religious extremism against secularists.) Israel Harel's enterprise was to normalize the settler.

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Source: israelhayom

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