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Israel
Distinctive Social Institutions
Israeli society in the late 1980s continued to be characterized
by a number of distinctive institutions. Some, like the Histadrut,
were legacies of the socialist aspects of Labor Zionism, with
its commitments to the socioeconomic reconfiguration of the Jewish
people and the establishment of an egalitarian and industrial
nation-state society. Others, like the kibbutz and moshav, stemmed
from these values but combined them with the practical problems
posed by the need to pioneer and settle the land. Still others--the
ulpan (Hebrew school for immigrants) or the merkaz
klita (absorption center)--arose from the need to settle
and integrate large numbers of Jewish immigrants from diverse
lands and cultures.
Data as of December 1988
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