Because of the historical importance of agriculture for the Jewish nation in Israel, food production and consumption played an important part in the construction of national identity. Israel, comprised of a multitude of ethnic groups, had to construct a shared national culture, and food became a useful instrument in this endeavor.Rather than a view that portrays food as ideologically marginal, the above examples demonstrate its importance in constructing a literal tie between the newly arrived Jewish settlers and the land and in unifying them in opposition to the Arab “other.”
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>> Israel, comprised of a multitude of ethnic groups, had to construct a shared national culture
That was essentially finished in approximately 1400 BC, when the 12 tribes settled in their alloted portions of Eretz Israel.
It was successfully ==revived== in the mid 19-oughts, a decade before World War One, when the first generation of mother-tongue-Hebrew-speakers in 2000 years, started having children.
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