1. For a more extensive discussion of the images of the Sabra and Diaspora Jew in IsraeU culture, see Yael Zerubavel, “The Last Stand: On the Trans formation of Symbols in Modern Israeli Culture” (Ph.D. dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, 1980), pp. 313–18; Samuel Klausner, “The New Hebrew Man,”Zemanim, 1–3 October, 1954 (in Hebrew); Ferdinand Zweig,Israel: The Sword and the Harp (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969), p. 4; Ammon Rubenstein, To Be a Free People (Schocken, 1977; in Hebrew), pp. 101–6; G. Shaked and J. Yaron, eds.,Life on the Razor’s Edge; An Anthology of Israeli Fiction (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1982; in Hebrew), pp. 11“14, 33–40.
2. Yizhak Ben-Ner,A Distant LandiKeier, 1981; in Hebrew), pp. 150–51.
3. Ibid., p. 183.
4. Amos Oz,A Perfect Peace (Am Oved, 1982; in Hebrew), p. 9.
5. Arie Semo,Masquerade (Sifrait Poalim, 1983; in Hebrew), pp. 194, 201.