Israel's Periphery: Why It's Not About Distance
Everyone in Israel knows the word "peripheria" — the periphery. But it isn't a geographic term. It means "not the center," and the proof is that Jerusalem itself once carried development-town status. This episode traces how a three-year-old state built that category in the 1950s, housed over 200,000 new immigrants in transit camps, and hardened an ethnic correlation that never dissolved. Then it follows the seventy-year effort to undo the label: JNF's Blueprint Negev, IDF bases moving south, a cabinet minister for the periphery, and Intel's $10 billion Fab 28 sitting beside a town founded by…
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