Creating and developing the collective identity in Israeli society
Creating and developing the collective identity in Israeli society

Summary/Abstract: The collective identity of each society derives from identities of its individuals. The young society in newly established state is not born with a given collective identity. It must be created and being sustained. The collective identity is a kind of tripartite feedback between past, presence and anticipated future created in processes based on three codes: primordiality, civility and sacredness. How to establish the identity for a young society in the country without common past, values, heritage nor even language? Fathers-establishers of the new Israel had to deal with very sophisticated challenge in order to find a base of the state collective identity derived from reach secular tradition of the Jewish nation on the one hand and the Zionist ideas on the other. To find out the identity for such differential society coming from all around the world, devastated directly or indirectly by Shoah experience has been an enormous effort for Israeli political leaders for many years.

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