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Book SynopsisTrade Review"To seriously understand a country, one ought to understand it's land laws and policies. Professor Sandberg provides a deep professional historical and legal picture of Israeli land issues. This book must be a must for whoever is interested in the subject in all it's aspects, including the Arab-Israeli conflict."—Justice Prof. Elyakim Rubinstein, Deputy President (ret.) The Supreme Court of Israel
"Professor Sandberg, one of the most prominent property law experts in Israel, shows in his book how the small, crowded, and often threatened Jewish State succeeds against all odds amidst extraordinary challenges facing its land policy in the third millennium. A must-read book not only for those interested in Israel and its land law but for anyone who wants to understand how internal contradictions in a country's identity affect its land policy."—Ruth Lapidoth, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Notes on Translation and Internet Hyperlinks
Introduction: Land Law and Land Policy
1. The Fingerprints of History in Land Inventory
2. Culture, Nation, and Socialism in the Administration of Public Lands
3. Privatization of Public Lands
4. National Land Planning in a Small Country
5. Jewish and Democratic
6. Creative Judiciary
Epilogue: Identity in Flux
Bibliography
Index
