ABSTRACT
The Gush Emunim (‘The Block of the Faithful’) movement and religious Jewish settlers in Israel are often associated with religious and political radicalism (see Sprinzak, 1991, 1999). Although they consider themselves as religious Zionists, they do not consider the current State of Israel as sufficiently religious and based on Jewish values. One of the revolutionary events that have strengthened their radicalism and resistance against the Israeli establishment was the evacuation of Jewish settlements in Gaza in 2005. The radicalization of this community is a long-term process which began to escalate in the early 1990s, when the Israeli–Palestinian peace process started (and this process partially survived for one decade).
