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LEGAL AFFAIRS: Consulting with Israel's legal professionals has exposed major issues that have plagued the Israeli public since the state was founded.

Jerusalem CNN  —  When Israel declared independence in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv was a small city of low-level dwellings.

Resolution celebrates Israel’s founding and Israeli democracy, expresses support for Israeli-Palestinian peace

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: The following is an extract from the introduction to the writer’s new book, "Being a Nation-State in the Twenty-First Century," published by Academic Studies Press.

I recently read two great books -- “Israel’s Declaration of Independence: The History and Political Theory of the Nation’s Founding Moment” by Neil Rogachevsky and Dov Ziegler (Cambridge University Press), which came out this year, and 2019's “A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion” by Tom Segev (Picador). Both are essential for

A proposal for a new social contract between citizens and the state was presented at a conference this week.

Yitzhak Wasserlauf says measure, aimed at putting contentious Nation-State Law into practice, will come up for a vote at Sunday's cabinet meeting, though agenda yet to be set

Minister Yitzhak Wasserlaufs efforts in the Israeli parliament are part of a larger effort to put the Jewish Nation-State Law into practice - Click the link for more details.

Yitzhak Wasserlauf says legislation will ‘enable us to prioritize IDF soldiers and reservists’ and ‘bolster Jewish settlement in the Negev and Galilee’; critics argue bill opens door to discrimination against non-Jewish citizens

Against backdrop of Israel’s political and social polarization, Institute for Israeli Thought presents charter to form basis for Israeli constitution.