ABSTRACT
The Jewish people experienced its greatest disaster and three years later lived to witness the birth of the Jewish state and Jewish sovereignty. In spite of the passage of time, Jewish attitudes toward the Holocaust and its implications remain today a crucial element in contemporary Jewish identity. Addressing Jewish-Israeli identity as a single-coherent identity presents numerous difficulties. The religious tendencies variable emerged as the most significant factor affecting Jewish-Israeli identity. The Holocaust has turned out to be the one meaningful factor shared by all sub-identity groups in Israeli society. Ideological movements endeavor to learn lessons from historical events, especially the most important historical events, and usually want to incorporate them into their historical collective memory in a way that fits their ideologies. The young secular Israelis answered both parts of the question with reference only to events in recent Jewish history, especially in the twentieth century.
