This article presents a research on history and modern development of Zionism as the ideological basis of the State of Israel. The birth and development of Zionist values, which are the "hybrid" of at least four different Zionist movements, strongly infl uenced the nature of Israeli statehood social structure and democracy. The dramatically changes in society's life and the unsettlement of the confl ict caused the open discussion in the intellectual strata in Israel on the methods of interpretation of the history and development Zionist's ideological basis of the state. The "post-zionist" ideas in Israel in the three decades since the 1973 war - climaxing in the 1990s with the demands to change some main aspects of Israeli public life that makes it a Jewish state - are mainly a desire to create a social-welfare system of equality for all citizens both Jews and Arabs.