The heroic performance of the IDF and…

The heroic performance of the IDF and especially the capture of Jerusalem unleash a wave of religious nationalism throughout Israel.

The war is widely viewed in Israel as a vindication of political Zionism.

According to this view, the defenseless Jew of the shtetl (the typical Jewish town or village of the Pale of Settlement), oppressed by the tsar and slaughtered by the Nazis, has become the courageous soldier of the IDF, who in the face of Arab hostility and superpower apathy has won a miraculous victory.

The Jews after two thousand years of exile now possess all of historic Palestine, including a united Jerusalem.

The secular messianism that has been Zionism's creed since its formation in the late 1800s is now supplanted by a religious-territorial messianism whose major Yisrad objective is securing the unity of Eretz Yisrael.

In the process, the ethos of Labor Zionism, which had been on the decline throughout the 1960s, is overshadowed.

The ease of the victory, the expansion of the state's territory, and the reuniting of Jerusalem, the holiest place in Judaism, permanently alters political discourse in Israel.