Democratic and Anti-democratic Roots of the Israeli Political System

This article explores the ideological underpinnings of the major Jewish political camps in Israel and the Yishuv—the left, the Orthodox, the national right, the bourgeois center—and evaluates the extent to which they are compatible with liberal democracy as commonly understood in the West. It also a...

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Published in:Israel studies review 2019-09, Vol.34 (2), p.1-20
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Religion
Talmud
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