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In David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy, Nir
Kedar offers a poignant study of the primary national founder of
the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Kedar
provides an explication of the making of Israeli democracy in terms
of its institutional-legal structures and social-cultural
underpinnings. David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli
Democracy connects the formal structures of democracy to the
fundamental principles that they were constructed to serve—human
freedom and dignity.
In David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy, Nir
Kedar offers a poignant study of the primary national founder of
the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Kedar
provides an explication of the making of Israeli democracy in terms
of its institutional-legal structures and social-cultural
underpinnings. David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli
Democracy connects the formal structures of democracy to the
fundamental principles that they were constructed to serve-human
freedom and dignity.
What makes Israeli law Israeli? Why is the word 'Jewish' almost
entirely absent from Israeli legislation? How did Israel succeed in
eluding a futile and dangerous debate over identity, and construct
a progressive, independent, original and sophisticated legal
system? Law and Identity in Israel attempts to answer these
questions by looking at the complex bond between Zionism and the
Jewish culture. Forging an original and 'authentic' Israeli law
that would be an expression and encapsulation of Israeli-Jewish
identity has been the goal of many Jewish and Zionist jurists as
well as public leaders for the past century. This book chronicles
and analyzes these efforts, and in the process tackles the complex
meaning of Judaism in modern times as a religion, a culture, and a
nationality. Nir Kedar examines the challenges and difficulties of
expressing Judaism, or transplanting it into, the laws of the state
of Israel.
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