This panel has both a thematic and a temporal focus. Concentrating on the period between the 1967 war and the First Lebanon War of 1982, it explores the various political, social and psychological tensions related to the experience of living in Israel’s geographical periphery. The period between 1967 and the First Lebanon War was characterized by deep transformations in Israeli society, including the decline of the Labor movement, the rise of the Israeli Right and the political upheaval of 1977, the intensification of the Mizrahi protest, the Yom Kippur war and the Israeli-Egyptian peace, among other developments. The papers of this panel focus on two main themes related to these transformations: Palestinian terrorism and the relationship between the Israeli Right and the kibbutz movement. Both issues were closely connected to life in the periphery, as many of the communities targeted by terrorism were located in Israel’s frontier areas, and the tensions between the Right wing and the kibbutz movement received a strong expression in relations between residents of development towns and neighboring kibbutzim, many of which are located in those same frontier areas in Israel’s geographical periphery. Orit Rozin’s paper focuses on the impact of Palestinian terrorism on Israeli culture during the period under consideration, paying particular attention to attacks involving children and families. She shows that the importance of the attacks lay not only in the immediate political arena but also in the realm of emotions. Terrorist attacks blurred the boundaries between wartime and peacetime in Israeli frontier communities and Israeli society as a whole. Rozin’s paper explores the memories that the attacks evoked and the impression they made on the body, mind and feelings of contemporary Israelis. Ori Yehudai’s paper explores the connection between terrorism and social and ethnic tensions. It compares the public reactions to the terrorist attack on kibbutz Shamir with the reactions to the attacks on the development towns of Ma’alot and Kiryat Shmona. All three attacks took place between April and June 1974, stemmed from similar reasons related to Middle Eastern politics following the Yom Kippur war, and targeted communities near the Lebanese border. But the public discourse surrounding the attacks reflected and accentuated ethnic, social and cultural issues separating kibbutzim and development towns. The paper also shows how the attacks exacerbated tensions between Israeli Jews and the Palestinian minority within Israel. Amir Goldstein’s paper examines the interaction between the kibbutz movement and the Israeli Right under Menachem Begin’s leadership between 1968 and 1981. His discussion emphasizes the distinction between two different periods. Although the kibbutzim and Begin belonged to opposing political camps, between the late 1960s and early 1970s the relationship between them was characterized by rapprochement and reconciliation. After Begin’s rise to power in 1977, however, the relationship deteriorated and became more hostile. This escalation was reflected not only in the relationship between the leaderships of the opposing camps, but also between the populations supporting them. One important area of confrontation was on the Israeli geographical periphery, where tensions intensified between residents of development towns, who largely supported Begin, and neighboring kibbutzim. The paper investigates the role of this relationship in Israeli politics during this volatile period, placing an emphasis on how social and political tensions played out on Israel’s periphery. Together, the three papers highlight the interactions between regional and domestic political changes on the one hand, and social and ethnic tensions on the other. They further show that the experience of living in Israel’s geographical periphery has shaped these interactions in unique and significant ways.