ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book deals with the key role that the messianic motif plays in the attempts to explain the influence of the Six-Day War. The interpretation of the Zionist process in light of conceptual and cultural models is widespread in the research literature, and messianic elements have been significant in these approaches. In this sense, religious-Zionism is no different from Zionism in general: scholars of Zionism have pointed to the existence of a messianic-utopian element in Zionist consciousness and action. The involvement of a religious element in the promotion of the messianic idea relies, above all, on a layered reading of Jewish history. Although messianism is a fixed element in Jewish reflection and consciousness, the study of Jewish thought shows that Jewish tradition in general, and Jewish thought in its early stages in particular, fluctuated between natural and apocalyptic messianism.
