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 authorresearches a political and legal framework as a base of relations between state and religion. He analysessources 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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