>>12817131in 1948, most MENA jews still lived in MENA countries(like my family)
after israel won the war there was a wave of explusions and a huge refugee crisis Israel had to deal with
the socialist left government mishalnded it, ailenated the new mirazhi public, and treated them badly over all
all this new audience was scooped by the Likkud party, then in the opposition. and they began forming strong loyal bond to that party
my dad will vote Likud until the day he dies, and it's not because he reads their platform every year - i'll tell you that
there was mizrahi left movements like the black panthers which turned leftwards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panthers_(Israel)but Menachem Begin and his Likud were the mirazhi party from 1977 on
