Is there a moral crisis in Israeli society? How so and how was it expressed and portrayed in Israeli literature from 1948 to 1967, then following the 1Is there a moral crisis in Israeli society? How so and how was it expressed and portrayed in Israeli literature from 1948 to 1967, then following the 1967 war, and in the years after the construction of the wall? Does the wall itself create a ghetto mentality in the Israeli psyche? Does unabated settler violence against an unarmed civilian population cause any discomfort for the Israeli psyche? How can societal incentives and social values be changed to conform with universal values? Will it happen in Israel, where those who feel that Israel has lost its moral high grounds prefer to leave Israel rather than fight back?