The new face of New York’s Israel Day Parade - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
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But although the Salute to Israel parade is still very energetic, it is marching on borrowed time. New York’s leading Jewish intelligentsia − the new Brooklyn bohemia and Columbia students − are not here.
The quiet Jewish majority, unorganized and unmobilized, still wants to love Israel, but feels Israel is not letting it love her. Is it a high-tech nation or a settlers’ nation? Is it Yair Lapid or the ultra-Orthodox nationalists? The confusion is immense. Israel does not present a clear story they can identify with.
There is no bright and shining member of the family beyond the sea they can be proud of. So Israel’s mission today is to stretch its hand out not only to the marchers in the avenue but to those who are no longer marching. Israel’s future depends to a large extent on the character and might of the Israel parade that marches down Fifth Avenue in 2020, 2030 and 2040.