The coalescence of Jews from across the world to form a unified Jewish nation-state has been the dream of many Jewish and Zionist leaders. With the gathering of immigrants after the State of Israel was established, the founders strived for a ‘fusion of exiles’ (mizug hagaluyot), where individual migrant cultural identities would assimilate to form a new Israeli identity that was predominantly European. Though the idea of a ‘New State’ appealed to Indian Jews, the promises that were made before they migrated from India did not materialise once they arrived in Israel, and they had to undergo several challenges, including discrimination based on colour and ethnicity, thus delaying their assimilation within Israeli society. This paper tries to understand the migration patterns of the Bene Israeli and Cochin Jewish communities and the prejudices enforced by the Israeli government and its agencies on them, which challenged their integration into mainstream Israeli society.

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以色列国的移民、歧视和同化

来自世界各地的犹太人联合起来形成一个统一的犹太民族国家一直是许多犹太人和犹太复国主义领导人的梦想。随着以色列建国后移民的聚集，建国者力图实现“流亡者融合”（mizug hagaluyot), 个人移民文化身份将同化形成一个新的以色列身份，主要是欧洲人。尽管“新国家”的想法对印度犹太人很有吸引力，但他们在从印度移民前做出的承诺在他们抵达以色列后并没有兑现，他们不得不经受包括基于肤色和种族的歧视在内的多项挑战，因此延迟他们在以色列社会中的同化。本文试图了解 Bene Israel 和 Cochin 犹太社区的迁移模式，以及以色列政府及其机构对他们施加的偏见，这些偏见挑战了他们融入以色列主流社会。