ABSTRACT
The question this article poses is whether this greater participation in Israeli society and politics, at the expense of direct involvement in the liberation and state-building Palestinian national enterprises, has moved upstream from political behaviour to identity issues. Israel’s celebration of its 50th year and the
Hillel Frisch is a Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Political Studies and Middle East History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He would like to thank the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Hebrew University, for a grant that made the research for this article possible.
