Shadow Plans for Beer Sheva, 1947-1949

Authors

  • Hadas Shadar University of Haifa, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Author
  • Eli Maslovski Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51854/bguy-34A109

Keywords:

Alexander Klein, Beer Sheva, Britain’s new towns, garden city, Richard Kaufman

Abstract

The development of Jewish Beer Sheva was viewed as the building of a new city, since it was to be manyfold larger than the original Arabic Beer Sheva. The plan for the development of Jewish Beer Sheva was part of the ‘Sharon Plan’, a master plan for the State of Israel published in 1951. However, beyond this official plan, there were several other plans for the city which were eventually relegated to the archive: two plans for a Jewish neighborhood alongside the existing Arab city dated 1947 and a plan for the entire city drawn up by the ‘Afikim Ba-Negev’ company dated 1949. These plans, which were never implemented, shed light on the planning, thinking and ideology during this period, which were based on a connection to the land, the value of community and a changing attitude towards the Arab city.

Published

2020-12-01

Issue

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Shadow Plans for Beer Sheva, 1947-1949. (2020). IYUNIM: Multidisciplinary Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society, 34, 227-251. https://doi.org/10.51854/bguy-34A109