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Posted By richards on February 6, 2017

Its 1972, a year before the Yom Kippur War and the great rift it created. Following the Six-Day War, Israel is not engaged in survival battles, is launching the settlement enterprise, is experiencing relative economic welfare but is dealing with internal problems. And the world is noticing that too.

The Black Panthers protest movement. If we ever get peace in the Middle East, we will have civil war at home (Photo: David Rubinger)

Headline of the secret CIA document from 1972

Some of the change in Israeli society is the natural result of the passage of time the aging of the old Zionist pioneers who control the Israeli establishment and the growing numbers of the Israeli-born, the Sabra (named for a desert cactus), who are eager to take over, the document stated 45 years ago.

Golda Meir, a representative of the old Zionist generation, and Yigal Allon, a representative of the Sabra (Photo: Shalom Bar Tal)

Moshe Dayan. Popular among the public, but not in his party (Photo: Fritz Cohen, GPO)

Ashkenazi-descended Sabras tend to fare better economically and politically than those of Oriental descent, says CIA report (Photo: David Rubinger)

Photo: David Rubinger

The CIA on ethnic tensions in Israel

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1972 CIA document analyzes Ashkenazi-Sephardic tensions in Israel - Ynetnews

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