Mizrachi believes that the Torah should be at the centre of Zionism and also sees Jewish nationalism as a means of achieving religious objectives.

It also played a role prior to the establishment of Israel, building a network of religious schools that exist to this day, and took part in the 1951 elections.

During the interwar period, the Mizrachi party was represented in the kehilla councils as well as in the municipal councils and in the Polish Sejm and Senate, e.g. by the Vilnius Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Rubinstein (1888–1945), Mizrachi senator (1922–1930, 1938–1939) and deputy (1930–1935), and by Rabbi Simon Federbusch, Sejm member from 1922 until 1927.

It is affiliated with the Bnei Akiva youth movement which has a great influence on the Modern Orthodox Jewish day schools and synagogues.

In interwar Latvia, the Mizrahi (Mizrachi) political movement was regularly represented in the parliament, the Saeima until 1934, as well as engaged in other public activities.