The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish-Israeli Society

(1965) discussed the impact of the Holocaust on Jewish-Israeli society and suggested that: “the Holocaust is compounded of a set of events includ-ing events of a fear-arousing character... the events affect not merely an individual but a series of ever-widening groups—from the family to the Jewish peo-ple ” (p. 103). This idea was also echoed by Elon (1981) who noted that the preoccupation of Jewish-Israelis with the Holocaust places the Holocaust as a national trauma. As such, the Holocaust has become one of the fundamental pillars of Israel’s civil society religion (Liebman & Don-Yehiya, 1983). In studies undertaken with Jewish Israelis, one of the major findings concerning the centrality of the Holocaust as a national trauma in Israel is that youn