But uhh hey be nice to jews because…well…just do it, okay?! Ooh and money. We can’t not have that. It’s a jewish religious object. If you didn’t want that you’d just be a nihilist.
apparently the influx of american jewry led to the disintegration of the old kibbutzim culture and ethos that gave israel its strength and cohesiveness in the early decades
they brought all these greenbacks over and the israeli economy basically had to be redeveloped and restructured in the late 70s and early 80s to accommodate it