The Israeli Regime and the Identity Crisis in Israel: The Conflict between Modern Liberal-Secular Zionism and Radical Orthodox Jewish Ideology

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

2 M.A. in Regional Studies, University of Tehran

Abstract

Despite the passage of seventy-five years since the formation of the mosaic society of the Zionist regime, numerous security crises and various social and cultural gaps, including the issues of racial minorities such as African-Americans, Arabs of 1948, and the Bedouins of the Negev, LGBT issues, violence against women, the unresolved divide between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, and crimes committed by extreme right-wingers against Arabs and leftists, continue to threaten the Zionist regime. The present article seeks to answer the question that among all the gaps and crises in this regime, what is the most important internal threat to determine its future trends? In response to this question, this article shows that despite the active and semi-active social faults in this fictitious society, the most important threat that will never disappear and will increase day by day is the issue of identity crisis in the regime, which has pitted the religious community against the secular society, and it seems that this problem is only eliminated by eliminating one of the two. Accordingly, the present study is a qualitative study with an explanatory-descriptive method that uses Quantitative and qualitative data and the method of documentary collection and qualitative inference from them have been performed.

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  • Receive Date: 16 March 2025
  • Revise Date: 28 July 2025
  • Accept Date: 02 August 2025
  • Publish Date: 23 September 2025