It’s Hebrew clefts that this paper is about

In this paper a new analysis is proposed for Modern Hebrew (ze-) clefts. Evidence is provided for analyzing clefts as copular sentences containing a maximalizing free relative adjunct with a null head. Thus, the exhaustivity and uniqueness presuppositions of clefts are explained, as they follow from the operation of maximalization in the RC. The RC is argued to have a Raising structure and to be merged in situ, contra extraposing it from subject position. The initial cleft pronoun ze is then argued to be a non-expletive subject, while the constituent in focus is the predicate of the copula, and not the head of the relative clause raised to its left periphery.