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IMAGINED SPACES AS COMMODITY: SOME CRITICAL COMMENTS
ON (IN)VISIBILITY IN TOURISM
Chaim Noy
Sapir Academic College
This chapter sheds a critical light on several less known aspects of the booming industry of world
tourism. Modern tourism, when viewed in terms of performance, suggests that the industry
enables hundreds of millions of people who partake in the enterprise as tourists, the possibility
to convert material capital into cultural and social assets. This transaction is accomplished
via public spaces from which tourists can gaze and in which they themselves become highly
visible. However, the usual performance criteria in regard to tourism are incomplete if they
lack a critical dimension of awareness of the many individuals who are actively involved - yet
entirely invisible - in the tourism industry as employees.
While recent studies comprise more critical approaches to this problem, they run against the
barrier of current conservative research, which is influenced by powerful capitalist market
forces supporting the tourism industry. These critical approaches enable to appraise the far-
reaching oppressive effects that tourism—now at the forefront of globalization—can produce,
and hopefully also come to term with.
Keywords
: tourism, spaces, Bourgeoisie, market forces, critical approaches.
“RADAR” STATIONS IN JERUSALEM AND CARMEL ON THE EVE OF
THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Yehuda Ziv
Scholar of the Land of Israel and member of the Governmental Names Committee
During the “Ma’avak” (Struggle) against the British Mandate government, at the phase
preceding the War of Independence (1945-1947), the underground Palmach commando units of
the Hagana attacked several radar stations that operated against Jewish ships carrying “illegal”
immigrants. Prof. Frank Evans (of Queen Mary College, London) was sent to Palestine in June
1947 as a soldier of the “5 Wireless Carrier Troop”. The carrier troop operated a secret new
radio-telephone device, which performed on the direct-vision-line principle. The device used
“plates” aerials, very similar to a radar-antenna, which lead to its wrong identification as a radar
installation. The “5 Wireless Carrier Troop” consisted of squads, stationed at four locations:
One in Rehavia (British Security Zone B” of Jerusalem); another one east of Kibbutz Ma’ale ha-
Hamisha, near today’s Radar Hill (Har Adar); a third with the troop’s headquarters on Mount
Gerizim, above Nablus; and the fourth on Mount Carmel (Antenna Hill), above Nesher (+528 m).
On July 21
st
1947 a daring attack was held by Palmach/Hagana units against the northern
wireless carrier station, and simultaneously an attack was carried out against another RAF
(Royal Air Force) station at the Western Carmel. An official communiqué, stating that these
were in fact only wireless stations, was taken as camouflage of the real damage inflicted, which