GAME OF THRONES: THE ONGOING DISCOURSE ON RELIGION AND STATE IN ISRAEL

My main purpose in this essay is to explore a nature of the status quo agreement and examine main disputes regarding the status quo: unchained women (“Agunot”), an exemption of the “Yeshiva” students from mandatory military service; a separation of woman and man in buses; biblical prohibitions that have a direct effect on non-religious citizens, etc. The author researches a political and legal framework as a base of relations between state and religion. He analyses sources of law in Israel and their evolution. Then the notion of “Jewish and Democratic state” is discussed. The author thinks that a democratic liberal state model does not go together with Israel. Israel is considered as a special model of democracy, which is Jewish-Democracy.

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