ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the relationship between the residents of Yaad and Miaar. It also explains the social and political processes which took place in Yaad-Miaar, while referring to the wider political and planning context in Israel. The chapter focuses on two approaches Therapeutic Planning, which was developed by Sandercock and suggests a method of involving communities in conflict in planning situations that leads to the appearance of a consensus; and the agonistic approach, developed by Hillier which uses the antagonistic view of social relations as more relevant to areas of dispute. The story of Yaad and Miaar is the story of many other places in Israel and in other parts of the world. It is a story of one place that contains layers of contradictory memories and emotions. It is important to emphasize that planning serves as an efficient tool in order to realize this wider programme, which is based on the Zionist ideology of Judaizing the Israeli landscape.
