Vol. 37 No. 4 (1989)
Research Article

Cultural-Geographical Aspects of Street Names in the Towns of Israel

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  • Yoram Bar-Gal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/nam.1989.37.4.329

Published 1989-12-01

Copyright (c) 1989 Maney

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Abstract

Abstract

A comparative analysis of the street names of many towns in Israel shows the importance of Zionist ideology in the process of naming, although there is apparently a central core of names boasting a national consensus. As a result of the War of Independence (1948), most of the Arab and English street names were changed, an act symbolic of the Jewish and Zionist nature of the urban environment.

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