During Israel's military operation in Gaza in the summer of 2014
the commanding officer of the Givati infantry brigade, Colonel Ofer
Vinter, called upon his troops to fight "the terrorists who defame
the God of Israel." This unprecedented call for religious war by a
senior IDF commander caused an uproar, but it was just one symptom
of a profound process of religionization, or de-secularization,
that Israeli society has been going through since the turn of the
twenty-first century. This book analyzes and explains, for the
first time, the reasons for the religionization of Israeli society,
a process known in Hebrew as hadata. Jewish religion, inseparable
from Jewish nationality, was embedded in Zionism from its inception
in the nineteenth century, but was subdued to a certain extent in
favor of the national aspect in the interest of building a modern
nation-state. Hadata has its origins in the 1967 war, has been
accelerating since 2000, and is manifested in a number of key
social fields: the military, the educational system, the media of
mass communications, the teshuvah movement, the movement for Jewish
renewal, and religious feminism. A major chapter of the book is
devoted to the religionization of the visual fine arts field, a
topic that has been largely neglected by previous researchers.
Through careful examination of religionization, this book sheds
light on a major development in Israeli society, which will
additionally inform our understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. As such, it is a key resource for students and scholars
of Israel Studies, and those interested in the relations between
religion, culture, politics and nationalism, secularization and new
social movements.
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