In this important book the author presents new information and analysis about the “Hilltop Youth,” the militant Jewish movement in Israel, that is generated from his extensive fieldwork and personal familiarity with the group and its members. The “Hilltop Youth” is the name for the extremist religious-nationalist youth movement in Israel, who, through their militant...

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The Magen David farm is further away from the Susia settlement, located on a hilltop near the Mitspeh Yair outpost. The farm was established in 1999 and specializes in raising sheep and goats and crops. For the last fifteen years it has been run by a Jewish man, who is in his forties today, who emigrated from Germany to Israel twenty years ago and, without planning it...

Between October 2007 and February 2008 I carried out a pilot study on a farm which included weekly half-day visits. I tried to vary things and visit at different times of the day, so I went to the farm twice in winter in the late morning and stayed until sunset when the agricultural work ended and the youths came back to both the house and their private domains. I understood that it was impossible...

It is four o’clock in the afternoon, a heavy winter fog makes visibility difficult and the sun is beginning to set over the hilltops of Mount Hebron. I am driving slowly and being careful at each curve on the twisting road that leads to the Susia settlement. The name Shlomi appears on my ringing cell phone. “How are things? Where are you my man?” says the voice of a young man of...

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The Levant and Near East: A Multidisciplinary Book Series