I have heard a number of Israelis, including a friend of more than half a century who moved there in the early 1990s, describe a spirit of “we’re all in this together” which creates a sense of solidarity and common purpose. A joke in Israel (where both aggressive driving and rudeness are the source of much self-deprecating humour among residents) is that an Israeli will run you down in the crosswalk if you aren’t out of the road 100 milliseconds after the light changes, then offer to drive you to the hospital.
In The Network State, which I discussed in another post today, the author discusses the need for “one commandment” or a shared proposition for a viable consensual community. Israel is a prime example of a country, most of whose population are self-selected immigrants or descended from them, with such a clearly-defined proposition.