When the State of Israel was founded, its political structure wasn’t created from scratch—it was a natural extension of how Jews had governed themselves for generations.
From the Passover Seder. "In every generation, to our fathers and to us, there have arisen those who would destroy us, but the Almighty, blessed be His name, saves us from their hands!"
Anyone who can write the the Netanyahu government threatens the very democratic institutions that have allowed our Jewish democracy to endure reveals a complete misunderstanding about democracy and turns his argument about the harbingers of Israelis democracy in years of exile into a pastiche. Not to mention the slander of Smotrich and Ben- Gvir in which you indulge so whimsically. Yes, Israel's yishuv origins prepared it for successful democracy, but the nature of Jewish self-government and the wrangling endemic to it goes all the way back to the Bible. The drawbacks of current Israeli democracy have more to do with that, exemplified in the extreme proportional representation of their electoral system, the highly personalized system of leadership endemic to Jews for three thousand years, and the stranglehold the old Yishuv elites and its descendants have on all the extra-governmental institutions of the country.
FRom where else did our code of ethical behaviour come, but from the first 5 books of the Bible, which are believed to have been written by Moses (or at least outlined) from the words dictated by God.
From the Passover Seder. "In every generation, to our fathers and to us, there have arisen those who would destroy us, but the Almighty, blessed be His name, saves us from their hands!"
Anyone who can write the the Netanyahu government threatens the very democratic institutions that have allowed our Jewish democracy to endure reveals a complete misunderstanding about democracy and turns his argument about the harbingers of Israelis democracy in years of exile into a pastiche. Not to mention the slander of Smotrich and Ben- Gvir in which you indulge so whimsically. Yes, Israel's yishuv origins prepared it for successful democracy, but the nature of Jewish self-government and the wrangling endemic to it goes all the way back to the Bible. The drawbacks of current Israeli democracy have more to do with that, exemplified in the extreme proportional representation of their electoral system, the highly personalized system of leadership endemic to Jews for three thousand years, and the stranglehold the old Yishuv elites and its descendants have on all the extra-governmental institutions of the country.
FRom where else did our code of ethical behaviour come, but from the first 5 books of the Bible, which are believed to have been written by Moses (or at least outlined) from the words dictated by God.