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| Torat haMelech: a work by a "fringe element," a "call to terror" or according to R. Dov Lior (a respected figure among many mainstream Religious-Zionists) “very relevant especially in this time”? |
Introduction
This article—based extensively on the research by Professor Yoav Peled[1]—examines the rise of the Religious Zionist movement from relative non-dominance in 1948 to a position of unquestionable hegemony in the last decades. The Chabad movement is widely recognized for its messianic focus, yet the similarly fervent messianism of Religious Zionists often receives less attention.
From Socialist-Zionism to a Labour-Zionism to Religious-Zionism
Two political scientists from Bar-Ilan University, Charles
Liebman and Eliezer Don-Yehiya (1983:128-131),[2]
show how two significant ideological shifts took place within two decades of
the birth of the State of Israel in 1948. Both shifts profoundly influenced the so-called ‘civil
religion’ or dominant mindset and worldview of the nascent Israeli society.
