Messianism, Politics and Halakha: Religious Zionism and the "Territories" 1967-1982

Two main tendencies emerged in the discourse held in religious Zionist circles about the territories: a messianic national-religious tendency, and a pragmatic-humanistic tendency. The new feature that characterized the speakers of the first type was expressed in the demand to base the conduct of the State of Israel on political and national-defense issues on values and considerations from the fields of religious belief. Proponents of the second tendency, conversely, argued that policymakers...