Author: Haim Yacobi.

This article will analyse Israel's past involvement (1956?1973) in Africa, in the context of a wider theoretical conceptualisation of the role of spatial development in the construction of moral geopolitics. Re-thinking the relevance of postcolonial critiques, the paper examines the political and institutional setup underlying Israeli involvement in development in Africa, documenting the scope of this phenomenon by looking at policy makers, professionals and institutions, studying the role of spatial development and planning in the design of Israel's policies, and analysing the actual results of such projects. Despite considerable Israeli involvement and investment in spatial development projects in postcolonial Africa, the existing literature on the subject is narrow, dealing mainly with pragmatic political interests, and there is hardly any structured documentation of Israel's exported spatial development to Africa ? its scope, qualities, successes or failures. Moreover, in the wider literature the analysis of spatial development as ?exported? knowledge is perceived as a by-product of the polity between Empires and the Margins ? an assumption that this paper aims to question. This article is dedicated to the memory of Sara Khinski, with whom my journey to Africa began.