ELDER OF ZIYON
Being the nation-state of the Jewish people
by Vic Rosenthal
May 12, 2017
In April of this year, the UN released the 2017 World Happiness Report…Israel came in 12th out of the 156, beating the US which was in 15th place…I am going to propose a radical explanation for this. I think Israel’s economic and social success is due to the existence of a collective purpose. If you ask them they will probably deny it, but – at least to a greater extent than in America or Europe – Israelis do identify with their state, and even those that dislike the state identify with the land and the people. Israeli culture today developed directly from the Zionist struggle to build a Jewish state, and the feeling of ownership this created isn’t all gone. READ MORE
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