Israeli society is divided. Its consociational premise progressively loses balance between democracy and Jewishness. The constant (re)formulation of Israel`s national Jewish identity not only concerns the deepening of ethno-political and sociocultural cleavages (Arabs, ultra-Orthodox, Mizrahim etc.) within Israeli citizenry (e.g. the Basic Law: Jewish Nation-State) but also the pactional state-citizen sovereignty which legitimizes the republican state-centered mechanisms of control (structural, symbolic, institutional, programmatic; Lustick, 1980). Though the collectivizing legalistic power-sharing model of "Mamlakhtyiut" [Bareli, Kedar, 2011; Kedar, 2002, 2008; Mautner, 2011] remains formally solid, recent findings reveal that even Jewish Israelis have been expressing decreasing appreciation and trust towards state institutions (government, military, judiciary, media etc.). Increasing demand for individual-based pluralism (a sort of privatization of identities, paraphrasing Israeli historian Daniel Gutwein) goes beyond the left-right political divide. That is to say that signs of autocratization (either labelled as ethnic democracy (Smooha) or ethnocracy (Yiftachel) clash with post-modernist post-Zionist stances. The two ``axes`` dialectically engender demagoguery and populism. Following Norbert Elias`s figurational sociology, the paper juxtaposes the two trends as civilizing and de-civilizing processes in the construction and reproduction of the Israeli ``survival unit`` and national ``habitus`` (i.e. the sovereignty-national identity-citizenry dispositions). It addresses the changes from Israeli Mamlakhtyiut to a polarized post-mamlakhti sociopolitical structure. The paper discusses the tensions and contradictions while examining the implications on Israel`s capacity to foster an alternative aggregative identity. The paper concludes with the definition of Israeli identity as a processually stratified identity-based polyarchy.