This study presents a theoretically justified paradigm comprising the conceptions of Zionism and the factors conditioning these conceptions, in order to answer the following questions of Zionism in the late 1990s: to what extent does Zionism reflect a widely assented ideology?; can it serve as a mechanism for unifying the Israeli society?; and has Zionism, after the establishment of the State, lost its commonly assented goals, and if so, to what extent...