מחדלי התכנון הארצי: מתוכנית שרון, ישראל 2020, תמ"א 35, ועד תמ"א 1: [מתוך מדור מיוחד "ישראל 2020" ‏- הזוויות שנשכחו]

This paper examines the failure of national planning in Israel and analyzes four comprehensive nationalplans over seven decades: the Sharon Plan (1951); The 'Israel 2020' Plan, National Plan (TAMA) 35; and the recent TAMA 1 (2020). The article shows a profound dissonance between the planning vision and the overarching declarations on advancing social goals of equality, fairness, and social justice, and the final planning products expressed in land-use schemes and legal regulations. In addition, the analysis shows how national planning has been ignoring the fundamental spatial and social needs of the Palestinian Arab society in Israel— hence ignoring one of the most critical social issues of planning in Israel. Not only did the planning exclude Palestinian society from decision-making regarding national space, but it also gave unquestioning legitimacy to the spatial, social, and environmental inequality between Jews and Palestinians.The four national plans have been physical blueprints that conceal a political and demographic agenda of organizing the land, while displacing and 'enclaving' Palestinian society and intensifying its distress in housing, services, the environment, and employment. The most recent TAMA 1 is a "technical" plan,devoid of any social or environmental vision of sustainability, that ratifies the spatial deprivation of various population groups, especially the Palestinians. Overall, national planning has failed for over seven decades at the moral and ethical aspects of promoting spatial and social justice. It has thus functioned as an exclusionary and discriminatory statutory tool beneath a mask of comprehensive national planning visions