ABSTRACT
The existence of the State of Israel can explain the disappearance of the Zionist ideology insofar as any realization of a broad social-political goal may make the guiding ideology obsolete. Obviously the emergence of the State of Israel has been grounded in the Zionist ideology. Zionist ideology has a special character which makes it different from the ideologies of other national movements. Zionist ideology aiming to establish an independent Jewish entity has not been part of an existing society. The aspirations for independence have been related to a central issue in the classical Zionist ideology, namely the analysis of the situation of the Jewish people in the diaspora particularly since the 19th-century. An ideological approach founded in self-examination has been replaced by a continuous attempt to safeguard support for the State of Israel. That support is appealing mainly to the Jewish feeling of solidarity and that solidarity leads to continuous attempts to find a focus for Jewish comprehensive existence.
