ABSTRACT
In addition to bifurcating Israel's political culture (Chapter 4) and popular culture (Chapter 5), globalization also affects Israel's national culture. The current chapter addresses the challenges posed to Israeli nationalism in the context of globalization. In the two recent decades, Jewish—Israeli mainstream nationalism—Zionism—is challenged by two opposite perspectives: a postnationalist perspective, which tilts toward global cosmopolitanism, and a neonationalist perspective, which tilts toward local tribalism. Benjamin Barber's concept in Jihad versus McWorld receives once more an illustrious vindication in the case of the schizophrenic effects of globalization on Israeli national identity (Barber 1995).
