This study is going to analyze the theoretical and practical bases derived from the political theology, especially messianism, as a social construction, in the text of the Jewish discourse and the Israeli social and political context. The main question is that “in analyzing the historical evolution of Israel’s messianic discourse, what is the relation between the abstract (sacred-historical) aspects and the concrete (social) ones, and this implies the foregrounding of which objective or subjective aspects in relation to the Israeli state and reviving the Promised Land? According to the primary hypothesis, “Israel’s politics has been maximally affected by the pragmatic aspect of the Jewish political theology especially messianism. And, in spite of the influence the based on political mysticism approach and the national and transnational missionaryism and obligationism have had, and despite the efforts towards gaining emancipation, redemption and salvation in Judaism, the behavioral dominant pattern and hegemon aspect is based on the individual, social, national and international security-centered pragmatism”. This study is about to both analyze the messianic bases of the political and the social in the history of the Zionism thought, and investigate the theoretical and practical essentials and representations through the framework of analyzing the Jews’ socio-political history. The theoretical and methodological framework of this study is based on “The Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA)” of Ruth Wodak.        

Keywords: Jewish theology, Political Prophecy, Social, Political and social affairs in Israel, Israel, Mystic.

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