Adya Gur Horon (19071972) Was A Provocative Public Intellectual And Historical And Geopolitical Thinker Who Called For The Overthrow Of The Israeli Non-democratic State-order In Favor Of An Imperial Hebrew National Vision Based On The Domination Of The Whole Levant. Drawing On Horon''s Private Archive, Roman Vater Studies The Intellectual Sources Of The Mid-twentieth Century Hebrew National Ideology, Known As Canaanism, Contending This Vision Can Only Be Properly Understood In Light Of Horon''s Articulation Of Its Historical Foundation Myth. The Intellectual And Political Rivalry Between Jewish Ethnic Nationalism And Hebrew Civic Nationalism, Represented By The Canaanite Challenge To Zionism, Continues To Inform Current Debates About Israels Identity And Its Relation To World Jewry On The One Hand And The Arab World On The Otherand Largely Determines Israel''s Global Political Alliances To This Day.