Building democracy on sand : Israel without a constitution / Arye Carmon
- Bib ID:
- 8150744
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Carmon, Arye, author
- Uniform Title:
- Be-en h??uk??ah. English
- Description:
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- Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2019]
- xv, 277 pages ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780817923150 (paperback)
- 0817923152 (paperback)
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9780817923167 (electronic book)
- 9780817923174 (electronic book)
- 9780817923181 (electronic book)
- Series:
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; 705.
- Summary:
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"More than seven decades after the founding of Israel, the momentum to establish a Jewish state has led to remarkable achievements in the nation's "hardware": stable structures in government, the military, and the economy. At the same time, the "operating system," the guidelines that accommodate human diversity and enable coexistence, is still riddled with weaknesses. Arye Carmon diagnoses the critical vulnerabilities at the heart of Israeli democracy and the obstacles to forming a sustainable national consciousness. The author merges touching narratives about his own life in Israel with insightful ruminations on the Jewish diaspora and the arc of Israel's history, illuminating the conflicts between Jewish identities and between democratic values and the halacha-the collective body of Jewish religious laws. There is no consensus on the characteristics that define Israel as a state that is both Jewish and democratic. Rather, the struggle between a secular and a religious Jewish identity, amid voices promoting ethnocentric nationalism, threatens to sever the ties that strengthen democracy. This cultural fragility has far-reaching implications for Israeli institutions and deepens societal rifts. Israel lacks a constitution to bind its democracy and a bill of rights to safeguard the freedoms of its citizens, enable the inclusion of diverse outlooks and beliefs, and underpin the norms of its civil society"--
- Full contents:
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- Between reason and faith : preliminary notes
- Diasporic nation and territorial nations
- The Zionist deficit
- "Negation of the exile" : stumbling block to acculturation
- The Gordian Knot : religion and nationhood
- The transition from sovereignty-in-the-making to sovereignty
- Ben-Gurionist statism
- The ethos of survival
- The centrality of death in Israel
- The interaction between governance and religion
- Diverse characteristics of the counterrevolution in religious Zionism
- The counterrevolution in the chronological mirror.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Translated from the original Hebrew into English.
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- Copyright:
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