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

This law, which grants automatic citizenship to any Jew who wishes to live here, is the embodiment of Jewish peoplehood and the vehicle through which the Jewish people has built our nation-state.

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