In his article published by IsraelHayom, Middle East, and National Security Expert Dan Shueftan gives us a peek into the tension being exhibited between Israel and US Jews. 

The two most important collectives of the Jewish Nation – the US Jewish community and the citizens of Israel – are being swept off in opposite directions. In times where attention is being diverted – both in Isreal and in the US – toward a host of more pressing and dramatic issues, a worrying trend is slowly taking root, building a negative and definitive framework between these two communities.

Soon, there will come an answer to the severe threat to public health; the economic crisis will pass after causing severe social damage; and the issue of sovereignty and its implications is also simply another case in a host of crises, achievements, and setbacks that we have seen in recent decades that will eventually pass.

However, in contrast, the tension between the mainstream American Jewry and Israel will probably only get worse in the foreseeable future. There are two unavoidable processes at work: one positive as far as Zionism is concerned, but hard to swallow, especially in America. The second is the increasingly different lived experiences of Jews in Israel and in the US, leading to increasing polarization between the two communities.

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