Defining IsraelPub Date : 2018-11-12DOI: 10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.10
Amal Jamal
{"title":"The Hegemony of Neo-Zionism and the Nationalizing State in Israel","authors":"Amal Jamal","doi":"10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.10","url":null,"abstract":"Israel has been undergoing major changes in the last few decades. One of these major changes is the rise of a very conservative and even messianic ultranationalistic political block that is dominating center stage in the political system, and turning its ideology into the official policy of the state. This development, which started decades ago and reached a hegemonic position in the last few years, reflects a process according to which Israel has moved into a NeoZionist era, characterized by an intensive “nationalizing” process, manifested in the legal, judicial, and cultural fields. 1 The process of nationalizing, as described by Rogers Brubaker, “is the tendency to see the state as an ‘unrealised’ nationstate, as a state destined to be a nationstate, the state of and for a particular nation, but not yet in fact a nationstate (at least not to a significant degree); and the concomitant disposition to remedy this perceived defect, to make the state what it is properly and legitimately destined to be, by promoting the language, culture, demographic position, economic flourishing, or political hegemony of the nominally statebearing nation.” 2 Since this process of nationalizing is rather too complex to be reflected upon in one short paper, the following pages address it at the legislative level,","PeriodicalId":319122,"journal":{"name":"Defining Israel","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121398596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Defining IsraelPub Date : 2018-11-12DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvd7w82b.11
D. Myers
{"title":"The Triumph of Majoritarianism, and the Decline of Democracy","authors":"D. Myers","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvd7w82b.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvd7w82b.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":319122,"journal":{"name":"Defining Israel","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125625286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Defining IsraelPub Date : 2018-11-12DOI: 10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.22
Yehudah Mirsky
{"title":"What is a Nation-State For?","authors":"Yehudah Mirsky","doi":"10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":319122,"journal":{"name":"Defining Israel","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132819955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Defining IsraelPub Date : 2018-11-12DOI: 10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.24
Ruth Calderon, S. Rabinovitch
{"title":"On the Declaration of Independence as a Basic Law and the Meaning of a Jewish Nation-State","authors":"Ruth Calderon, S. Rabinovitch","doi":"10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":319122,"journal":{"name":"Defining Israel","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126161743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Defining IsraelPub Date : 2018-11-12DOI: 10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.23
T. Livni, S. Rabinovitch
{"title":"On the Meaning of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State","authors":"T. Livni, S. Rabinovitch","doi":"10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":319122,"journal":{"name":"Defining Israel","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124659816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Defining IsraelPub Date : 2018-11-12DOI: 10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.25
R. Gavison
{"title":"Reflections on the Nation-State Law Debate","authors":"R. Gavison","doi":"10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":319122,"journal":{"name":"Defining Israel","volume":"263 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126464506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Defining IsraelPub Date : 2018-11-12DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvd7w82b.9
Yoram Hazony
{"title":"The Current Crisis in Israel’s Constitution","authors":"Yoram Hazony","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvd7w82b.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvd7w82b.9","url":null,"abstract":"Israel’s political constitution has been in a condition of crisis since the 1990s – a crisis that the proposed and recently passed Basic Law reaffirming Israel’s character as the Jewish state is intended to resolve. In what follows, I examine some key issues in general and Zionist political theory in order to understand the nature of the present crisis in Israel’s constitution. I will suggest that in light of these considerations, a Basic Law reaffirming Israel’s character as a Jewish state is in fact much needed at this time – not only in order to stabilize the Israeli constitution, but also as a basis for approaching the broader problem of state legitimacy that has in recent years crippled the state system in the Middle East.","PeriodicalId":319122,"journal":{"name":"Defining Israel","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127074902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Defining IsraelPub Date : 2018-11-12DOI: 10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.15
Z. Begin
{"title":"On the Essence of the State of Israel","authors":"Z. Begin","doi":"10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTVD7W82B.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":319122,"journal":{"name":"Defining Israel","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128491697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}