Post-Zionism and Aliyah. Observations on Recent immigrants from Ethiopia and the Former Soviet Union in Israel

This article examines two groups that have arrived in Israel since the 80’s, Jews from Ethiopia, numbering today over 65,000, and Jews from the former Soviet Union, close to 722,000 of whom have arrived since 1989. They will most likely represent the last major immigration waves to Israel of the twentieth century. I will endeavor to show in what ways these two groups take part in Israeli society, how they have developed diverging models of ethnicity, and how they challenge certain basic found...