ABSTRACT
In 1989 I published an article in Hebrew in which I reviewed the implementation of the 1965 amendment1 to the 1950 Absentees Property Law2 as an expression of the Israeli Government’s policy regarding the waqf properties in the country.3 In this present essay I intend to revisit the case study some twenty years later in order to reevaluate the findings in light of developments since the second half of the 1980s and to reconsider my former conclusions. I will also look at the waqf issue in a broader political perspective in an attempt to reexamine the conceptual framework in light of the scholarly work done by Michael Dumper, Alisa Rubin-Peled,4 and Laurence Louër.5
