The author describes Israel's social structure and discusses some of its problems. Israeli society is based on a pioneering ideology, which is a source of strength and also of conflict as the nation evolves into a consumer culture. Waves of heterogeneous immigrants necessitate further social adjustment. She describes the Israelis' relationship to their own and to other nations and reviews some factors in the Mid-East conflict. The psychosocial barriers between the Israelis and the Arabs are constantly strengthened by external and internal political interests.
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Rita R. Rogers (1972) studied this question.