Nobody would accuse either of us of being chauvinists. Yet much as we both obviously love the spoken and written word, there is a felt need to admit the basic truth of the Australian Jewish situation. But recently, like many others, I thoroughly enjoyed watching Sea Change rather than make the greater effort of reading The Tempest. If so have they achieved this desirable state with less than five years of living in Israel. My guess is that either their parents spoke Hebrew at home or after a couple of years in Israel they ended up marrying an Israeli.
Strong beliefs can be all sorts of things.
They can be simply true, as is my belief that it is not raining in my lounge room at this moment. Some Moroccan Jews went to Israel while others went to France, Quebec and elsewhere. Many of those who had considerable strength of conviction would not have been ideological at all, often choosing Israel for the usual reason of chain migration - that some family members or friends were already there. Thus strongly held belief need not imply any ideology whatsoever. With strong ideological belief the can, of course, be dogmatic or bigoted.