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ABSTRACT
The significance of the electoral ‘mahapach’ (upheaval) is not limited to the Likud’s rise to power in 1977 for the first time in Israel’s history. It also brought secondary upsets in the form of changes of guard among other political forces. This article focuses on three such ‘aftershocks’ which remoulded Israel’s religious political sphere: the metamorphoses in ethnic, Haredi and religious-Zionist politics. The political change of guard in each of these areas as a result of the mahapach boosted the power of religious forces, transforming them from marginal, largely reactive factors into active players with lasting impact on the moulding of Israeli society.
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Notes
1. Eisenstadt, “The ‘Mahapakh’ of Citation1977”; Kimmerling, “Between Hegemony.”
2. Ben-Yehuda, Theocratic Democracy; Leon, “Secular Jews.”
3. Horowitz and Lissak, Trouble in Utopia, 32–3, 64–79.
4. Herzog, Political Ethnicity.
5. Gonen, “Geographic Study,” 63–87; Goldstein, “Crisis and Development,” 110–33; Cohen and Leon, “New Mizrahi Middle Class.”
6. Cohen and Leon, “The Mahapach.”
7. Chetrit, The Mizrahi Struggle.
8. Shokeid, “The Religiosity.”
9. Author’s interview with Yehuda Avidan, February 23, 2000.
10. Shilon, “Begin’s Attitude,” 249–74.
11. Lavi, Tzofan Begin.
12. Shach, Mikhtavim u-Ma’amarim, 7–8.
13. Shach, Be-Zot Ani Boteah, 39.
14. Hamodia, June 21, Citation1977.
15. Yisrael Guri [Gurfinkel], 1951–Citation1965; Yisrael Kregman, Citation1965–Citation1977.
16. Heilman and Friedman, “Religious Fundamentalism.”
17. Friedman, Ha-hevra ha-haredit.
18. Don-Yehiya, “Origins and Development.”
19. Feige, Settling in the Hearts, 40–62.
20. Eisenstadt, “The ‘Mahapakh’ of Citation1977”; Kimmerling, “Between Hegemony.”
21. As is especially apparent in recent studies of religious-Zionist society. See, for example, Levy, “The Theocratization”; Roseman-Stollman, For God and Country; Lebel, “Settling the Military.”
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Nissim Leon
Nissim Leon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University.