Publications [#382041] of Mordechai Inbari

Journal Articles

1. Inbari, M, Uzi Meshulam and the 'Mishkan Ohalim' affair: The influence of radical ultra-orthodoxy, Israel Studies Review, vol. 32 no. 2 (December, 2017), pp. 21-42 [doi]
   (last updated on 2025/05/30)

   Abstract:
   In March 1994, a protest led by the late Rabbi Uzi Meshulam burst onto the Israeli scene when the Rabbi and his followers barricaded themselves for 47 days in the town of Yehud. They demanded that a government committee be set up to investigate the disappearance of Yemenite children, who, the Rabbi charged, had been snatched from their parents in immigrant camps during the early years of Israeli statehood. In this article I present how the dualistic yet non-violent anti-Zionist Satmar Hasidic ideology, which Meshulam had adopted, led to a violent confrontation between the Rabbi's followers and the Israeli police. Despite the high profile of this clash at that time, very little was reported about the Rabbi's worldview and beliefs. This article is intended to fill that gap.