This article argues that the first two decades of Israeli state-building can be compared structurally to some main processes in postwar Western-European societies, and that this approach productively situates Israel within a global perspective, uncovering new relationships between the local and the global. In addition, it proposes a methodological reading of the young Israeli society before the Six-Day War and a theoretical framework in which to place it. It provides an analysis of this young society from the perspective of Western history, constituting a new reference point that does not strive to negate other common approaches. If, until now, the history of the first two decades of Israel has been examined from a local and particular point of view – whether the state-building process or political, social, and national controversies – I propose to view the Israel of the 1950s–1960s as a postwar society that underwent the same structural processes as other Western European societies during those years, despite domestic differences.

本文认为，以色列国家建设的前二十年可以在结构上与战后西欧社会的一些主要过程进行比较，这种方法有效地将以色列置于全球视野中，揭示了地方与全球之间的新关系。此外，它还提出了对六日战争之前年轻的以色列社会的方法论解读以及将其置于其中的理论框架。它从西方历史的角度对这个年轻的社会进行了分析，构成了一个新的参考点，并不试图否定其他常见的方法。如果直到现在，从地方和特定的角度来审视以色列前二十年的历史——无论是国家建设过程还是政治、社会、