Building democracy on sand : Israel without a constitution / Arye Carmon.
2019
KMK1750 .C3713 2019 (Mapit)
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Author
Uniform Title
Be-en ḥuḳah. English
Title
Building democracy on sand : Israel without a constitution / Arye Carmon.
Imprint
Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2019]
Description
xv, 277 pages ; 23 cm.
Series
Hoover Institution Press publication ; 705.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Language Note
Translated from the original Hebrew into English.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Carmon, Arye. Building democracy on sand. Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2019.
Call Number
KMK1750 .C3713 2019
Language
English
ISBN
9780817923150 paperback
0817923152 paperback
9780817923167 electronic book
9780817923174 electronic book
9780817923181 electronic book
0817923152 paperback
9780817923167 electronic book
9780817923174 electronic book
9780817923181 electronic book
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