Colette Avital

The 2000s: Dashed Hopes, New Hopes

The most recent decade in Israel’s existence, 1998 to 2008, started with great expectations and ended on a note of sobriety and soul-searching. There were great expectations for peace after Ehud Barak won a landslide victory in 1999 to become Israel’s prime minister: expectations for a stable, efficient government, for better schools, for greater social…