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The historical background of the various oriental Jewish communities in Israel is examined. Zionism was overwhelmingly European as a movement, but after the founding of Israel, Jews in Muslim countries experienced pressures that led to mass emigration to Israel. The oriental Jews were treated in this period as a source of cheap labor in agriculture, construction, & industry. Recruitment of civil servants from oriental Jews was extremely low. Israeli society remains ethnically segregated, a pattern reflected in education & employment & in ideological portrayals of oriental Jews as backward. Oriental protest at this situation took the form of a vote for the Likud -- a coalition of parties representing primarily Mc Ashkenazic businessmen -- largely because oriental Jewish organizations are difficult to form & politically ineffective, while the Likud offers a means of opposing the dominant Labor party. This vote does not represent a basic cultural commitment but a short-term strategy. W. H. Stoddard.

Politics and Education in Israel focuses on the meeting of European Zionists, Non-Zionist Middle Eastern Jews, and Palestinian Arabs in the Israeli school system, the introduction of ability groupings into Israeli schools, the privatization of education and the expansion of elitist schools