POLS 3060 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Six-Day War, National Religious Party, Haganah
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Chapter 13: israel 516-543 (the middle east by ellen lust): Israeli periphery: another of mapai"s state building projects was the construction of a unifying ethos that would provide a coherent israel identity to the diverse immigrant groups that made up the country"s population. In 1949, the knesset passed a law establishing mandatory education but did not end the independent school system. Israel today is a contemporary society populated largely by immigrants attracted by the idea of a. Ethnic divisions intra-jewish cleavages: the terms ashkenazim and sephardim have their origins in the medieval period of the various. Intra-jewish ethnic divisions have been a prominent feature of israeli politics communities" sojourning in the diaspora following different expulsions throughout history: a mizrahi is the oriental or eastern community of jews who never left the middle east. It was in the 1970s when the mizrahi-ashkenazi cleavage reached its height in israeli politics in.