ABSTRACT
The whole pattern of the relation between the Jewish community in Israel, the State of Israel and the Jewish people in the Diaspora changed in many ways which greatly affected - although initially almost imperceptibly - the whole internal development of Israel. The State of Israel was established on the basis of a territorial compromise, the seeds of which were planted in 1936 with the Peel Commission decision on the partition of Palestine and the acceptance of the partition by the Zionist Congress in 1938. The establishment of the State of Israel had of course many repercussions on the basic definition of Zionism. The institutional framework of the State which was established and developed seemed to be very close to these premisses, and it evinced a marked continuity with both the mandatory framework and that of the Zionist Organization. The response to the security problem was the establishment of the most enduring of the new institutions: the new army.
