How could it, at a time when Europe's scattered and stateless Jews depended on religion to sustain their sense of peoplehood?

ECONOMIST: Israel at 50

There is, however, one group of Israelis that does not share this sense of peoplehood, and which, in a way, cannot share it.

ECONOMIST: Israel at 50 | The

In its central aim of giving the scattered Jews a sense of national peoplehood and providing them with a haven, Zionism has been a brilliant success.

ECONOMIST: Israel at 50 | The

The authenticity of Jewish peoplehood, with a national existence focused on Israel, is by now a fact of modern history, they say, and should no longer be a matter for ideological debate.

ECONOMIST: Israel