ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the Western-Modern orientation of Israeli space production vis-vis its diverse population, that in many aspects represents material culture which does not comply with the national supremacy. It focuses on the case of Netivot, a peripheral development town which offers an alternative experience of sense of place, linked to the diaspora and Mizrahi. Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim in plural, are those who come from Arab and Muslim countries identity that subverts the Israeli hegemonic production of space by creating a hybrid place. The chapter examines the transformations in the discussion of the Oriental nature of the Israeli built environment; supporting the claim that identity as a political and cultural construct is related to the formulation of new time and space created by communal imagination processes that intertwine past, present and future. Haim Yacobi, 'the Third Place: Architecture, Nationalism and Postcolonialism', Theory and Critique. Over the years, the users have transformed their housing environment.
