That there was no single Jewish community is shown by the constant struggles and small wars
between the newcomers and the veterans. Also, the intricate relations between the Zionists
and the authorities complicated life for the existing Jewish community…. The veteran Jews saw
Zionism as heresy, and a threat to the ethical code of Judaism in that it cherished secularization
as the means of salvation. Secularization for the Old Jewish community in Palestine, however,
represented an immoral development. They therefore looked for any signs of moral degradation
in the newcomers…. [They] decided that the appearance of Jewish prostitutes, in their eyes for the
first time in history, could only be attributed to Zionism.
In Jaffa, the constant fights between Ashkenazi Jews (newcomers from Eastern Europe) and
Sepharadi Jews (veterans of the Ottoman Jewish millet) were barely containable…. Orthodox Jews