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I prefer the term “Middle-Easterners” when referring to immigrants from the Middle East. The other terms in use, Mizrahiyim and Sepharadim, may include immigrants also from outside of the Middle East. Mizrahiyim also includes people from the Caucasus region while Sepharadim includes people from Spain, Portugal and the Balkans.
Raphael Cohen-Almagor, “Cultural Pluralism and the Israeli Nation-Building Ideology,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 27 (1995): 461–84; Orit Rozin, “Food, Identity and Nation-building in Israel's Formative Years,” Israel Studies Forum 21.1 (2001): 54–80.
In 1948, the Israeli leadership did not wish to choose sides between the Soviet Union and the United States, having closer affinities to the socialist East than the capitalist West.