“The socialist establishment in Israel then, as now, wants as little to do with traditional Judaism as possible.”
A bit of history disturbs my morning coffee & thinking time. Golda Meier was an American from Chicago, and a de facto communist.
Israel has shot itself in the foot when it was established as a socialist nation.
If G*d exists, perhaps Israel’s socialism may find less theological support than Golda assumed?
I don’t know that there’s any theological support for socialism from a traditional Jewish perspective.
Jews like Meier (who grew up in Milwaukee and Denver) from that era believed if Jews would just become an ethnic group with a geographic homeland and give up that religious stuff, then everything would be all right.
Victorian vanity: Marx, Freud and Darwin had figured out everything that needed to be known about people.