This paper discusses the distributional and social components of Israeli land settlement policy implementation. A stochastic model is then employed to construct a probabilistic migration model to project the population of 13 settlement types and data is presented to show the effect of internal migration on the distribution patterns of the major ethnic groups across settlement types and on the changing ethnic composition within settlement types. The analysis demonstrates that internal migration, in the absence of other components of growth, has the potential for being a crucial factor in altering the size and ethnic composition of the settlement structure of the country. Implications of projected trends are discussed.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Advisory Commission in Inter-Governmental Relations.1968Urban and Rural America: Policies for Future Growth.Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
2.
AmiranD and ShacharA.1969Development Towns in Israel.Jerusalem: The Hebrew University.
3.
BachiR.1962“Standard Distance Measures and Related Methods for Spatial Analysis”, Regional Science Association Papers, 10:83–132.
4.
BachiR.1965“Population Distribution and Internal Migration in Israel”. Report submitted to Ford Foundation. Jerusalem: Hebrew University and Central Bureau of Statistics.
5.
BachiR.1967“Effects of Migration on the Geographical Distribution of the Population of Israel”. Proceedings, Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 737–751.
6.
Bar-YosefR.1971Absorption Versus Modernization.Jerusalem: Department of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
7.
Ben-DavidJ.1970“Ethnic Differences of Social Change” in Integration and Development in Israel.EisenstadtS.N., Bar-YosefR. and AdlerC., editors. London: Praeger. 368–387.
8.
Ben PorathY.1970“Fertility in Israel, an Economist's Interpretation: Differentials and Trends 1950–1970”. The Rand Corporation: Rand Memorandum RM-5981-FF.
9.
BerlerA.1970New Towns in Israel.Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press.
10.
BogueD.1959“Internal Migration”, in The Study of Population.HauserP. and DuncanO.D., editors. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
11.
BrutzkusE.1966“Planning of Spatial Distribution of Population in Israel”, Ekistics, 350–355.
12.
BrutzkusE.1970Regional Policy in Israel.Jerusalem: Ministry of Interior, Town and Country Planning Department.
13.
CameronG.C.1972“The Relevance to the United States of British Population Strategies, with a Note on the French Experience”, in Population, Distribution and Policy, Vol. 5. The Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
14.
CohenE.1969“Population Dispersion and Integration of Immigrants as Contradictory Objectives”, in Mizug Galuyot: A Symposium on the Integration of Immigrants from Different Countries of Origin in Israel, held in 1966 in Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, (in Hebrew).
15.
ComayY. and KirschenbaumA.1973“The Israeli New Town: An Experiment at Population Redistribution”. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 22(1): 124–134. Oct.
16.
DuncanO.D. and DuncanB.1955“A Methodological Analysis of Segregation Indexes”, American Sociological Review, 20:210–217.
17.
EfratE.1971Changes of Physical Planning Trends in Israel.Jerusalem: Ministry of the Interior, Planning Department.
18.
EisenstadtS.N.1967Israeli Society.London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
FriedlanderD.1974“Israel” in Population Policies in Developed Countries.BerelsonB., editor. New York: McGraw-Hill. 42–97.
21.
GinsbergY.1971Rural-Urban Migration in Israel: New Cooperative Settlements, 1965–1966. Rehovot, Israel: Settlement Study Center.
22.
HaleviN. and Klinov-MalulR.1968The Economic Development of Israel.New York: Praeger.
23.
HoelP.B., 1972Introduction to Stochastic Processes. Houghton Mifflin.
24.
KemenyJ.G., 1956Introduction to Finite Mathematics.Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc.
25.
KlaasenL.H.1965“Regional Policy in the Benelux Countries” in Area Redevelopment Policies in Britain and the Countries of the Common Market. U.S. Department of Commerce, Area Redevelopment Administration.
26.
KlaffV.1973“Ethnic Segregation in Urban Israel”, Demography, 10(2). May.
27.
LiW.L.1972“Matrix Analysis of Migration Streams”, International Migration (The Hague), 8(4):174–181.
28.
LitchfieldN.1971Israel's New Towns: A Development Strategy.Jerusalem: Ministry of Housing.
29.
MatrasJ.1965Social Change in Israel.Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co.
30.
MatrasJ.1973“Israel's New Frontier: The Urban Periphery”, in Israel: Social Structure and Change.CurtisM. and ChertoffM., editors. Transaction Press.
31.
RogersA.1968Matrix Analysis of Interregional Population Growth and Distribution.Berkeley: University of California Press.
32.
SelzerM.1965The Outcasts of Israel: Communal Tensions in the Jewish State.Jerusalem: The Council of the Sephardi Community.
33.
ShacharA.1970“The Influence of the New Towns on the General Population Pattern in Israel”. Studies in the Geography of Israel, 7:25–63, (in Hebrew).
34.
ShacharA.1971“Israel's Development Towns: Evaluation of National Urbanization Policy”. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 37:362–372.
35.
ShawR.P.1975Migration Theory and Fact. Regional Science Research Institute, Bibliography Series Number 5, Philadelphia.
36.
SpiegelE.1966New Towns in Israel: Urban and Regional Planning and Development.Stuttgart/Bern: Karl Kramer Verslag, 1966.
37.
SundguistJ.L.1975Dispersing Population: What America Can Learn From Europe. Brookings Institution.
38.
TarverJ.D. and GurleyW.R.1965“A Stochastic Analysis of Geographic Mobility and Population Projections of the Census Divisions in the United States.”Demography, 2:134–139.
39.
WeintraubD., 1969Moshava, Kibbutz and Moshav: Patterns of Jewish Rural Settlement and Development in Palestine.Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
40.
United Nations1969Methodology and Evaluation of Population Registers and Similar Systems. Studies in Methods, Series F., No. 15, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, N.Y.
41.
U.S. Commission on Population Growth and the American Future1972Population and the American Future.Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
42.
WillnerD.1969Nation Building and Community in Israel.Princeton: Princeton University Press.
43.
YisraeliY.1971“Absorption Policy—A Principal Cause of the Ethnic Gap”, Afiin, 4(40):12–14 in Hebrew). Sept.
