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Mizrahi Politics
''In the two decades prior to the turn of the 21st century, the Mizrahim have entered Israeli electoral politics as a force to be reckoned with. Parties such as TAMI and Shas, as well as the New Mizrahim have contributed to the emergence of a new Mizrahi social and political movement that can successfully challenge the hegemony of Ashkenazi Zionism. ''

Constituting about half the Israeli Jewish population, the Mizrahim -Sephardic Jews and Jews from the Arab and Islamic countries- still occupy, as a group, the lowest rungs of Israeli Jewish society.