Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
מורשת ישראל; כתב-עת ליהדות לציונות ולארץ ישראל
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,2 (תשף) 387-413
Keywords:
Begin, Menachem,
;
Politicians Attitudes
;
Revisionist Zionism Philosophy
;
Peace treaties
;
Eretz Israel In Judaism
Abstract:
The article examines the Jewish-Israeli weltanschauung of Menachem Begin as an underground commander, opposition leader and prime minister. His outlook was predicated on two fundamental values: the continued survival of the Jewish people and the importance of the hallowed areas of the Land of Israel. These two values are intertwined and were to be actualized jointly. Ostensibly, from apractical standpoint there is tension between these two values in terms of their importance. Consequently, the article will delve into the question of whether the survival of the Jewish people takes precedence over preserving parts of the homeland, irrespective of the latter’s religious and ideological importance.The article consists of two parts. The first part delineates the prevailing tension between the two values – land and people. It emonstrates how Begin contended from a religious and ideological standpoint with the issue of yielding parts of the greater Land of Israel for the sake of the continued survival of the Jewish people when he functioned in the underground, the opposition and the prime minister’s office. The second part examines how Begin actualized his Israeli-Jewish policy with regard to the immigration of Ethiopian and Argentine Jewry and how he addressed the issue of Soviet and Iranian Jewish “dropouts,” who elected to immigrate to countries such as the United States, Canada and Australia instead of Israel.
Note:
With an English abstract.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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