The “All the Points” curated maps highlight specific features of the Israeli-Palestinian region’s settlement history at varying time scales. The maps currently extant or in development include:
1) “‘In the Land of Jesus’: European Christian Colonies in the Holy Land (1867–1948)”
This map traces the presence of such colonies from the second half of the nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries.
2) “‘Wall and Tower’: The Emergence and Spread of Iconic Settlements (1936–1939)”
This map documents on a month-to-month time frame the kibbutzim and moshavim constructed overnight (in the form of mere “walls” and “water towers”) during the Arab Revolt between 1936 and 1939, a period in which it became increasingly clear that Mandatory Palestine was headed to some form of partition.
3) “‘From Palestine to Israel’: The Disappearance and Appearance of Arab and
Jewish Settlements (November 1947–November 1949)”
This map documents, again on a month-to-month basis, the rapid changes in the land that enabled and reflected the founding and consolidation of the new State of Israel during these decisive two years.
4) “‘Peripheral Points’: “From Naḥal Military Outpost to Civilian Settlement (1951–2013)”
An important feature of Israeli settlement history is the establishment of hybrid military-agricultural outposts in border regions that were subsequently converted into civilian communities. This map traces this story.
5) “‘Home on the Hilltop’: The Founding of Galilean ‘Mitzpim’ and West Bank Settlements and Outposts (1967–2000)”
This map brings into dialogue two roughly contemporaneous settlement enterprises that are usually treated as entirely independent.
6) “‘Settled, Unsettled, Resettled’: The Golan Heights (1878–2023)”
This map highlights the dramatic changes in settlement that have taken place on this strategic plateau over the past century and a half.
7) “‘Points That Never Were’: Fictional Communities in Israel/Palestine”
Alongside “all the real points” rooted in the ground, there are those of the imagination…