CONTENTS

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

PART I 1881–1918

ZIONISM: IDEOLOGY AND PRAXIS

1   The Emergence of the Zionist Movement

2   Jews, Turks, Arabs: First Encounters in the Land

PART II 1918–1948

A STATE-IN-THE-MAKING

3   Palestine under British Rule

4   Immigration and Settlement during the Mandate Period

5    The Yishuv as an Emerging State

6   The Yishuv: Society, Culture, and Ethos

PART III 1948–1967

NATION BUILDING

7   The War of Independence, 1947–1949

8   The Creation of Israeli Democracy

9   State Building: Economy, Development, and Big Government

10 The Great Aliya: Mass Immigration

11 Culture and Norms in an Evolving Society

12 Politics, Peace, and War

PART IV 1967–1977

A DECADE OF WAR

13 Six Days That Changed the Middle East

14 The Age of Euphoria, 1967–1973

15 The Yom Kippur War, 1973

16 Israeli Society after the Yom Kippur War

PART V 1977–2000

PEACE, WAR, AND INDECISION

17 Begin in Power

18 The Stalemate Years: A Changing Israeli Identity, 1984–1990

19 The Decade of Hope, 1990–2000

An Interim Summary

Index