ABSTRACT
From on the door was opened toward the Arab world and toward various movements in both Jewish and non-Jewish communities. These developments, on the one hand, strengthened the reshaping of Israeli identity toward broader and more flexible contacts. The resurgence of the themes was facilitated by the weakening institutional framework and ideological symbols that brought together in the initial institutional mold of Israeli society the various themes of Jewish political culture. The growing dissociation among different elite groups and the weakening framework of solidarity gave rise to the resurgence of different themes of Jewish civilization and the Zionist vision: the Messianic, territorial, solidary, primordial components of the collective identity. Ongoing struggles and confrontations around the collective boundaries and symbols of Israeli society were intensified by the volatility of the international security situation. The new orientations and their institutional implications were visible most fully in the realms of security, defense, and foreign policy.
