ABSTRACT
Both the Bible and the Greeks early attested to die fact that none of us escape the patterns established at the founding. At best there can be refoundings under certain conditions that may somewhat alter those patterns and their direct consequences, but they are rare enough. Zionism was an effort at refounding the Jewish people. In the 1950s and 1960s, the “end of ideology” decades, the non-ideological types clearly had the upper hand within both the Zionist movement and the State of Israel. Zionism itself came to be either ignored, as it was in much of the diaspora, or made a matter of some ridicule, as it was among large segments of Israeli population. The Israeli political leadership was quite ambivalent toward Zionism in these years. The revival of Zionist concern in the past decade has given rise to a new generation of Israeli thinkers and ideologists whose work is just now beginning to capture the attention of Jewish people.
