Rise and Fall of Israel's Settler Movement

This movement, which coalesced around Porat’s Gush Emunim -- the “Bloc of the Faithful” -- has defined Israel’s political agenda for the past 40 years, just as the kibbutz movement and its leaders shaped Israel and its priorities through the early period of its existence. What is so fascinating about these two movements is that, for all their transformative success, they have both failed to complete their missions.