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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: neolib who wrote (223986)3/13/2007 11:43:08 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Israelis of Ashkenazi descent are in the minority.

You know what the ratio is? Also, how does the political structure reflect this?


Off the top of my head, the Mizrahim (Jews of the East) have a small majority - maybe 55 - 60%, something like that.

When Israel was founded, the leadership was all Ashkenazi Socialists from Russia or Poland or America or the sons and daughters of those people. They ran the ruling Mapai party, now called Avodah or Labor. But then Israel doubled its population in the 1950s with refugees from the Arab lands. For many years, the Mizrahim felt that their voices weren't really being heard. They backed the Likud party when it rose to power with Menachim Begin in the 1980s, and still do, generally speaking. Of course, there are all kinds of smaller parties from both camps and neither, secular and religious, that go into the mix. I certainly can't keep track of it.
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