Building democracy on sand : Israel without a constitution /

Building democracy on sand : Israel without a constitution /

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Author / Creator:	Carmon, Arye, author.
Uniform title:	Be-en ḥuḳah. English
Imprint:	Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2019]
Description:	xv, 277 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Hoover Institution Press ; no. 705 Hoover Institution Press publication ; 705.
Subject:	Constitutional law -- Israel. Judaism and state -- Israel. Constitutional law. Judaism and state. Politics and government. Israel -- Politics and government. Israel.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12009253

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ISBN:	9780817923150 0817923152 9780817923167 9780817923174 9780817923181
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Translated from the original Hebrew into English.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: Carmon, Arye. Building democracy on sand. Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2019. 9780817923167

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