Israeli nationalism is in full effect
The word Israel+i was invented in 1948 and they were copying from Middle Eastern nationality names like Yemeni, Iraqi, Saudi, and the I suffix is Arabic. They were trying to have a nationality name that sounds Middle Eastern but they are not a Middle Eastern but a European people. For a group of people to be considered a nation, they must have some things in common such as origin, language, ancestry, DNA, customs, cuisines but the African Jews, the European Jews, the Middle Eastern Jews have nothing in common except for religion just like it is the case with the Catholics. What the European Jews are trying to say when they say they are a nation is that they are the Hebrews to whom the entire Middle Eastern region was promised.