Thank you so much for publishing this. I wouldn't have read it were it only available in Hebrew, and I'm really glad to have read it. I really like Shalev's point that most of Jewish history took place without a state but with a homeland. That's smart and thought-provoking. One of my favorite divine names is ha-Makom, "The Place." For me as a religious Diaspora Jew, God is the ultimate Place in Whom religious life is grounded -- and yet we fight so bitterly over physical places, as though God were more fully "in" one place than in another...