As Israeli Jewry becomes diverse, Sephardic and Mizrahi education and culture is still very peripheral. The political and cultural establishment is still very reticent to change the narrative from a hegemonic Ashkenazi cultural expression to active multi-cultural Sephardic/Mizrahi inclusion. Whether in academia, popular culture, grade school education, museums, the media, or the dominant Holocaust and State Zionism paradigms, the “other”, the Sephardi and diverse Mizrahi groups are included as token appendages and not an integral part of the national culture and heritage. Sephardic/Mizrahi themes are curtailed when it comes to state funding. The shelving of the Biton Commission dampened Sephardic education and cultural proliferation. A fourth of Israeli Jewish marriages are between Sephardim/Mizrahim and Ashkenazim, but more prevalently the situation produces abandonment of Sephardi/Mirzrahi tradition, trivialization, and is counter to cultural proliferation.
In a lack of Sephardic/Mizrahi solidarity and community, the ethnic religious Mizrahi identity appears in synagogues, but not beyond. In a vacuum of volunteerism and leadership, whether lay or rabbinic. Sephardic/Mizrahi culture remains marginalized. The wealthy Israeli Sephardim/Mizrahim have no understanding for furthering their culture, and numerous pockets of Sephardi and Mizrahi cultural and ethnic activism remain peripheral because the Sephardic/Mizrahi diaspora has little solidarity with their Israeli counterparts, and the understanding of thousands of wealthy Sephardim and Mizrahim in the diaspora toward their ethnic and religious continuity is close to nil; as is their dedication to communal education, secular/religious culture, and communal continuity.