It's Democracy, I Presume! | Alan Jay Zwiren
From the blog of Alan Jay Zwiren at The Times of Israel
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From the blog of Alan Jay Zwiren at The Times of Israel
I spoke with a number of experts, who offered several pragmatic swords to cut the tangled Gordian knot. What emerged is a three-step “coffee-shop” solution: small, medium and large.
David Ben-Gurion won the elections and became Israel's first prime minister and Chaim Weizmann became Israel's first president.
Once staunch anti-Zionists, Haredi parties have become ensconced in the Israeli right. Now, a generation of disenfranchised Haredi youth is defying its elders and seeking meaning in the most extreme forms of supremacism.
For many analysts and observers, one of the most striking features of the Israeli political and legal system is the lack of a written constitution. Unlike