It grew during the 1920s and 1930s to be the political, communal, and cultural voice of those Orthodox Jews who were not part of Zionism's Orthodox Jewish Mizrachi party.

At first he aligned himself with religious Zionism and the Mizrachi movement, but after meeting Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld leader of the Haredi Jewish community, he became the political spokesman of the Haredim in Jerusalem and was elected political secretary of the Orthodox community council, Vaad Ha ' ir.

Along with its sister organization Janadava, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, and the Labor Zionist Po ' ale Zion parties, and the Religious Zionist Mizrachi, the ZOA served as one of the key voices in early American Zionism.

In later years, when Kook's name became associated with the Mizrachi, part of the Religious Zionist Movement, Hutner, an eventual member of the non-Zionist Haredi Agudath Israel of America's Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (" Council of Torah Sages "), sought to downplay his former association with Kook, even though he maintained cordial relations with Kook's son and heir Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook and other prominent students such as Rabbi Moshe-Zvi Neria.

In 1956, the Mizrachi party and Hapoel HaMizrachi merged to form the National Religious Party to advance the rights of religious Jews in Israel, having fought the 1955 election together as the National Religious Front.

In 1956, Mizrachi, Hapoel HaMizrachi and other religious Zionists formed the National Religious Party to advance the rights of religious Zionist Jews in Israel.

He is a co-president of the international Mizrachi movement, of which the National Religious Party and its successor Jewish Home politically represents.

The newspaper had been associated in its past to the Mizrachi movement as well as being the beacon of National Religious Party.

In 1956 Hapoel HaMizrachi merged with their ideological twins from the Mizrachi party to form the National Religious Party ( NRP ).

From 1948 until the early 1970s between 800, 000 to 1, 000, 000 Mizrachi and Sephardic Jews either fled from their homes or were expelled from Arab and Islamic countries ; 260, 000 reached Israel between 1948 – 1951, and 600, 000 by 1972.

In religious parlance, and by many in modern Israel, the term is used in a broader sense to include all Jews of Ottoman or other Asian or African backgrounds ( Mizrachi Jews ), whether or not they have any historic link to Spain, though some prefer to distinguish between Sephardim proper and Mizraḥi Jews.

Introduced by Mizrachi Jews and Arab citizens of Israel, the dish has become ubiquitous.

He inspired the founding of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, founded in 1950, by the American Mizrachi movement, which is named for him: " The name Bar-Ilan was chosen, in honor of Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan ( Berlin ), a spiritual leader who led traditional Judaism from the ashes of Europe to rebirth and renaissance in the Land of Israel.

The Mizrachi Party was the first official religious Zionist party and founded the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Israel and pushed for laws enforcing kashrut and the observance of the sabbath in the workplace.

Mizrachi believes that the Torah should be at the centre of Zionism, a sentiment expressed in the Mizrachi Zionist slogan Eretz Israel le-am Yisrael al pi Torat Yisrael (" The land of Israel for the people of Israel according to the Torah of Israel ").

* Rabbi Meir Bar Ilan, leader of Mizrachi party in Israel

World Agudath Israel was established at a conference held at Kattowitz ( Katowice ) in 1912 after the Tenth World Zionist Congress had defeated a motion by the Torah Nationalists Mizrachi movement for funding religious schools.

* Rice, often with saffron or raisins – Nearly all Sephardi Jews and many Mizrachi Jews consider rice to be an essential food for the Passover table ; Ashkenazi Jews and Hasidic Jews do not eat rice during Passover as a matter of minhag.

Many of the high echelon Jewish leaders and rabbis of Yeshiva University actively identify with and support Mizrachi in all its forms.

The Mizrachi people have become trapped, despite all the warnings, in the terrible error that Zionism is the beginning of a New Judaism.

Indeed, there are several prominent quotes in which Kook is quite critical of the more modern-orthodox Religious Zionists ( Mizrachi ), whom he saw as naive and perhaps hypocritical in attempting to synthesize traditional Judaism with a modern and largely secular ideology.

Orthodox rabbi and leader of Religious Zionism, the Mizrachi movement in USA and British Mandate of Palestine.

In the United States the ideals of and work of the Mizrachi movement have been carried out through the official Religious Zionists of America ( RZA ) movement that has been an important source of the ideology and guidance for Modern Orthodox Judaism and its rabbis and followers.

For this reason, he was " unalterably opposed to the Mizrachi movement, which remained affiliated with the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency ".

In 1905 he joined the Mizrachi movement, representing it at the Seventh Zionist Congress, voting against the " Uganda Proposal " to create a " temporary " Jewish " homeland " in Uganda in East Africa, as suggested by Great Britain.

Mizrachi was the first official religious Zionist party.

Groups as diverse as Clarence de Sola's Federation, Poalei Zion, Mizrachi ( a religious Zionist organization ) and the Arbeiter Ring were present at the convention.

Its aim was to strengthen Orthodox institutions independent of the Zionist movement and Mizrachi organization ..

His family later moved to Rehovot, where he attended the local Tachkemoni school ( of the Mizrachi movement ), and subsequently graduated from Rabbi Haim Drukman's yeshiva, Or Etzion, and served as a major in a combat unit in the IDF.

In 1911 he was appointed secretary of the world Mizrachi movement.

Bnei Akiva, which was founded in 1929, is the youth movement associated with Mizrachi.

Both Mizrachi and the Bnei Akiva youth movement became international movements until the present.

Neve Yaakov was established in 1924 on a parcel of land purchased from the Arabs of Beit Haninah by members of the American Mizrachi movement.

Bnei Akiva was established as the youth wing of the Mizrachi movement.

The Babylonian Jewry is considered to be the predecessor of most Mizrachi Jewish communities.

The definition of Mizrachi includes the modern Iraqi Jews, Syrian Jews, Lebanese Jews, Persian Jews, Afghan Jews, Bukharian Jews, Kurdish Jews, Mountain Jews, Georgian Jews.

* Elijah Mizrachi, Hakham Bashi of the Ottoman Empire.

He also taught at the Mizrachi Teachers Seminary and from 1935 was dean of the Harry Fischel Institute for Talmudic Research in Jerusalem.

Sephardic and Mizrachi Jewish temples are generally considered " orthodox " by non-sephardic Jews and are primarily run according to the orthodox tradition, even though many of the congregants may not keep a level of observance on par with traditional orthodox belief.

Unlike the predominantly Ashkenazi Reform, and Reconstructionist denominations, Sephardic and Mizrachi Jews who are not observant generally believe that orthodox Judaism's interpretation and legislation of halacha is appropriate and true to the original philosophy of Judaism.

That being said, Sephardic and Mizrachi Rabbis tend to hold different, and generally more lenient, positions on halacha than their Ashkenazi counterparts, but since these positions are based on rulings of Talmudic scholars as well as well documented traditions that can be linked back to well known codifiers of Jewish law, Ashkenazi and Hasidic Rabbis do not believe that these positions are incorrect, but rather that they are the appropriate interpretation of halacha for Jews of Sephardic and Mizrachi descent.

He also belonged to the Mizrachi religious wing of Zionism, which promoted Jewish religious education and schools, and which advocated giving the Chief Rabbinate authority over marriage and divorce.

Judith Lieberman, ( born August 14, 1904, died 1978 ), wife of Jewish religious scholar Saul Lieberman, daughter of Rabbi Meir Berlin ( Bar-Ilan ), leader of the Mizrachi.

In 1913 he came to the United States and developed local Mizrachi groups into a national organisation, chairing the 1st U. S. Mizrachi convention, held in Cincinnati in 1914.