Abstract
The movement of religious settlers in Israel's occupied territories began as a messianic mission intended to sweep the Jewish people and the State of Israel into the process of religious redemption. It ended up, however, submitting to the moral authority of the state, a fact which became manifest in the 2005 Gaza withdrawal, when the overwhelming majority of settlers refused to defy the decision about unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. This article argues that submission to the state's moral authority was foreshadowed in the early 1980s by a consciously pragmatic decision to avert a full‐fledged clash with the state's sovereignty in the aftermath of a Supreme Court order to dismantle the settlement of Elon Moreh.
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