Introducing
"Kol ha-Nekudot"/"All the Points"/"Kull al-Nuqaṭ"
An Interactive, Online Map of Israel and the Palestine Territories

Daniel Stein Kokin 
(Universität Greifswald/Arizona State University) 

	My presentation will introduce and showcase aspects of “All the Points.”  Deriving its name from the classic Zionist tendency to refer to communities as “points on the map,” “All the Points” is a series of interactive, chronologically oriented online maps of communities of all types in what is today Israel and the Palestinian Territories. It documents both the nature of each settlement (e.g. religious kibbutz, Arab village, development town, unrecognized Bedouin encampment, uprooted Israeli settlement, destroyed Palestinian village, etc.) and the year of its founding (and/or, where relevant, abandonment or destruction, and even refounding and redestruction) from 1840 down to the present. “All the Points” has thus far been supported by the UCLA Y & S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe. When it is complete, visitors to the “All the Points” site will be able to view the communities that existed in any particular year; watch in slideshow fashion as communities emerge, disappear, and/or change their identity; and follow the spread or regression of particular categories of settlement.
“All the Points” currently uses ArcGIS, but ultimately aims to be both open access and open data. Its data derives from the 1945 British survey of Palestine and the Central Bureau of Statistics’ 2017 survey of Israeli communities, supplemented by Wikipedia, community websites, and scholarly research. “All the Points” is unique among mapping initiatives of this region in that it is not beholden to any particular political or ideological agenda, but merely aims to answer the questions: Who has lived where, when, and in what kind of community, without passing judgment on the answers.
	When complete, visitors to the “All the Points” site will be able to view the communities that existed in any particular year and to follow the spread or regression of particular types of settlements. No currently existing map, so far as I am aware, enables viewers to track and explore in such an all-encompassing manner the two distinguishing features of settlement in Israel/Palestine over the past nearly two centuries, namely 1) the tremendous changes that have taken place on the ground and 2) the great variety in the kinds of communities that exist.
	Alongside the primary interactive map, a series of supplementary, curated maps highlight particular moments or phenomena in the settlement history of this region. Examples include: 

●	“‘In the Land of Jesus’: European Christian Colonies in the Holy Land” 
●	“‘Wall and Tower’: The Emergence and Spread of an Iconic Settlement Type (1936-1939)” (Depicts on a month-to-month basis, as opposed to the yearly time frame of the main map, this iconic pre-state Jewish community type that emerged in the context of the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt.)
●	“‘From Palestine to Israel’: The Disappearance and Reappearance of Arab and Jewish Settlements (Nov. 1947-Nov. 1949)” (Displays how the Israeli War of Independence/Palestinian Nakba affected settlements on a month-to-month basis, as opposed to the yearly time frame of the main map.)    
●	“From Naḥal Military Outpost to Civilian Settlement”
●	“‘Arab Settlement in the Jewish State’: Recognized and Unrecognized Arab Communities Founded in Israel since 1948”
●	“‘Home on the Hilltop’: The Founding of Galilean ‘Mitzpim’ and West Bank Settlements and Outposts, 1967-2020” (This map traces the founding of hilltop Jewish communities across the Galilee and West Bank.)  
●	“‘Jerusalem’: Arab, Jewish, and Other Neighborhoods in the Holy City and Environs”
●	“Settling, Unsettling, and Resettling the Golan Heights: 1878-Present”
●	“‘Points That Never Were’: Fictional Communities in Israel/Palestine” (This map will showcases the approximate locations, and provides information about, fictional communities from treatises, literature, music, and film.)   

My presentation will introduce the nature and goals of the project as a whole, explore its sources and classification scheme, and show what the main map looks like and how it can be used. I also plan to introduce a select few of the curated maps.

"Kol ha-Nekudot"/"All the Points"/"Kull al-Nuqaṭ" An Interactive, Online Map of Israel and the Palestine Territories

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