The Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (1967–2008): historical overview

Billig, Michael

doi:10.1080/13537121.2015.1036552

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“…The current study intends to expand the field by exploring responses and coping strategies of mothers and fathers residing in towns located in Israel’s Judea and Samaria regions. This area is considered a conflict zone, with residents exposed to a greater number of security threats than most other residents of Israel (Billig, 2015; Shechory-Bitton & Cohen-Louck, 2018). Owing to the fact that parents are exposed to the same threats and potential dangers as their children (Tatar et al, 2011), studies on the coping of fathers and mothers as a family unit while residing in conflict zones will add much-needed further depth to the research field.…”

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Spousal Coping Strategies in the Shadow of Terrorism

Shechory-Bitton

Cohen-Louck

2017

J Interpers Violence

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The present study focuses on spousal differences in reaction to ongoing exposure to terror and security threats. Sixty-eight married couples with children living in a region exposed to ongoing security threats were evaluated. All participants completed questionnaires on objective exposure (number of incidents) and subjective exposure (sense of fear) to terrorism and security threats, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and their coping strategies with this ongoing exposure. Mothers reported higher levels of fear and PTSD symptoms, although their objective levels of exposure did not differ from those of their husbands. Similarities were found in coping strategies adopted by mothers and fathers to cope with life in the shadow of terrorism. Both mothers and fathers integrated emotion- and problem-focused coping strategies, with greater use of the latter. These similarities partially contradict research findings suggesting gender differences in coping with exposure to security threats. The results support the need for further research into investigating the role of dyadic coping in the context of prolonged exposure to security threats.

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Spousal Coping Strategies in the Shadow of Terrorism

Shechory-Bitton

Cohen-Louck

2017

J Interpers Violence

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“…Besides the common perspective that sees that settlement project as a national-religious initiative headed by the nationalist orthodox sector (Newman, 1981, pp. 33-37), it involved also under-privileged Mizrahi families looking for affordable housing (Dalsheim, 2008), young couples of relatively low socioeconomic background that were drawn by the alternative welfare system in the West-Bank (Allegra, 2017;Gutwein, 2017Gutwein, , 2017, newly coming Russian immigrants (Weiss, 2011), Ultra-orthodox families from Bnei Brak and Jerusalem (Cahaner, 2017), American religious immigrants (Hirschhorn, 2017), private developers encouraged by the Ministry of Housing (Maggor, 2015), or wider segments of Israeli society in search for better quality of life (Billig, 2015;Yacobi & Tzfadia, 2018).…”

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The bourgeoisification of the Green-Line: The new Israeli middle-class and the Suburban Settlement

Schwake

2020

Political Geography

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This paper focuses on Kochav-Yair and Oranit, two localities that exemplify the Israeli Suburban Settlement phenomenon. With the first being developed by a selective group of families and the latter by a single private entrepreneur, yet both with the full support of the state, they represent the selective privatisation of the national settlement project during the 1980s. Examining the geopolitical, social and economic interests that accompanied their development, this paper illustrates how both projects incorporated the upper-middle-class bourgeoisie in the national territorial effort along the border with the occupied West-Bank (the Green-Line). Analysing the planning and construction process of both case studies, as well as their spatial characteristics, this paper explains how the upwardly middle-class and its contractors were granted substantial planning rights. Consequently, enabling them to influence the production of space while promoting a new local suburban typology that is based on better living standards, private family life and a distinctive isolated community. Therefore, this paper illustrates the Suburban Settlement typology as an outcome of the bourgeoisification of the Green-Line, which domesticated the former frontier area and enabled its inclusion in the greater national consensus.

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“…After the city’s occupation by Israel in 1967, a centuries-old ban on the entrance of non-Muslims to the building was lifted, making the structure open to all visitors. Shortly afterward, Jews began settling within Hebron, and the adjacent town of Kiryat Arba was established (Billig, 2015). Since the 1994 massacre of Palestinian Muslims in the cave by Baruch Goldstein, the site has been divided into two exclusively Jewish and Muslim spaces, with each side allotted 10 days a year to control the entire TOP building.…”

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Constructing and deconstructing the sacred geography of Hebron: Movement and pilgrimage in and around the Tomb of the Patriarchs

ELAZAR,

BILLIG

2024

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The Tomb of the Patriarchs in the divided city of Hebron is a major site of pilgrimage for all three monotheistic religions, a space of contention, and an epicenter of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This article examines the mobility of pilgrims and tourists of various religious traditions within and around the site and their efforts to construct and deconstruct overlapping and often conflicting narratives of sacred space. Thus, Moslem foreign pilgrims from the Middle East and South Asia are motivated by their wish to pray within the site, viewing the political reality of division as an uncomfortable barrier to the experience of sacredness. In contrast, Christians, mostly Protestant tourists, occupy a liminal position expressed and sometimes overcome through the bodily practice of performance of several varieties. Finally, Palestinian solidarity groups attempt to deconstruct Hebron’s sacred geography, by focusing solely on the city’s violent and contested present as a site of immobility and emptiness.

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The Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (1967–2008): historical overview

Cited by 9 publications

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Spousal Coping Strategies in the Shadow of Terrorism

Spousal Coping Strategies in the Shadow of Terrorism

The bourgeoisification of the Green-Line: The new Israeli middle-class and the Suburban Settlement

Constructing and deconstructing the sacred geography of Hebron: Movement and pilgrimage in and around the Tomb of the Patriarchs

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