Eyal, Gil, The "One Million Plan" and the Development of a Discourse about the Absorption of the Jews from Arab Countries, The Disenchantment of the Orient: Expertise in Arab Affairs and the Israeli State, Stanford University Press: 86–89, 2006, ISBN 9780804754033: "The principal significance of this plan lies in the fact, noted by Yehuda Shenhav, that this was the first time in Zionist history that Jews from Middle Eastern and North African countries were all packaged together in one category as the target of an immigration plan. There were earlier plans to bring specific groups, such as the Yemenites, but the "one million plan" was, as Shenhav says, "the zero point," the moment when the category of mizrahi jews in the current sense of this term, as an ethnic group distinct from European-born jews, was invented."
Yiftachel, Oren. Social Control, Urban Planning and Ethno-class Relations: Mizrahi Jews in Israel's 'Development Towns'. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 7 March 2003, 24 (2): 418–438. doi:10.1111/1468-2427.00255.
