Ideology and events in Israeli human landscapes.

As a consequence of the role played by agricultural pioneering in peripheral areas of Jewish settlement in Israel prior to 1948, a mythical landscape has evolved in which small development towns and collective villages transform a desert environment. In reality, the majority of the population lives in the three metropolitan areas of Tel-Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem, the collective village is no longer dominant numerically nor is it a pioneering agricultural settlement and the call to make the desert bloom no longer serves as a rallying cry for Israeli society. -from Author