ABSTRACT
In the past two decades, scholars from different disciplines such as political sciences, sociology, history and geography have produced a vast and rich body of knowledge that examines the production of Israeli national culture.1 Beyond the differences and often disagreements among the writers, they have all contributed to an understanding of the Israeli national space as a product of power relations. However, beyond the socio-historical dimension of this discussion, it is also crucial to analyze the processes by which the Israeli built environment and open landscape were physically shaped and socially constructed. Despite the extensive academic discourse mentioned above, the significance of spatial practices such as architecture, planning and landscape design to both the tangible and symbolic construction of national space has been generally neglected.
