Democratic Culture
Democracy in Israel is a young sapling. The depth of its roots and spread of its branches in the local culture are as yet undefined. The adoption of the idea of democracy has been influenced by the history of the Jewish people, a history characterized by lack of sovereignty and by the collective memory of one who suspects the other and is persecuted by him. Democracy in Israel is develping hesitantly within the framework of tension between two powerful competing civilizations: that of traditional Judaism and that of liberal western society.
This situation creates an existential need to explore questions relating to the texture of democratic life in the State of Israel. The journal Democratic Culture was founded for this purpose: to serve as a forum for studies on democratic culture in general and Israeli democracy in particular. This interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary publication welcomes studies in the humanities, social sciences, law and Jewish studies. studies. Its editors are Prof. Yedidia Stern from the Faculty of Law and Prof. Avi Sagi from the Philosophy Department.
Editors: Prof. Yedidia Stern, Prof. Avi Sagi, Hanan Mandel.
Editorial Board: Prof. Stuart A. Cohen, Dr. Hanan Mandel, Prof. Avi Sagi, Prof. Yedidia Z. Stern
Advisory Board: Prof. Ella Belfer, Prof. Eyal Benvenisti, Prof. Gerald J. Blidstein, Prof. Arnold Enker, Prof. George Fletcher , Prof. Moshe Halbertal, Prof. Alon Harel, Prof. Yaacov Iram, Prof. Menachem Kellner, Prof. Pnina Lahav, Prof. Sandy Levinson, Prof. Menachem Lorberbaum, Prof. Menachem Mautner, Prof. Dan Michman, Prof. Shmuel Sandler, Prof. Bernard Susser, Prof. Yuli Tamir Shenkar, Prof. Michael Walzer, Prof. Noam Zohar
Student Board
2019/2020 - Emanuelle Hirschfeld-Trachtingot (student board coordinator), Yehonatan Dayan, Leora Deitcher-Levi, Omri Engler , Eden Farber, Eman Hujierat, Talya Idels, Avigail Tarasov, Itay Vasserman
2020/2021 - Omri Engler (student board coordinator), Shai Borenstein, Yahel Dalach, Yehonatan Dayan, Roni Dolev, Tamir Madmoney, Avigail Tarasov, Ariel Vaiger, Hala Zbedat
2021/2022 - Omri Engler (student board coordinator), Dor Ashkenazi, Roni Dolev, Yahel Dalach, Raz Halperin, Tal Wijnbergen, Julan Khader, Ofir Lederhendler, Yael Monderer, Yaakov Shainberg
2022/2023 - Dor Ashkenazi (student board coordinator), Raz Halperin, Or Yitshaki Benisti, Ofri Cohen, Yuval Lifshitze, Inbal Medina, Michal Sadon, Shvut Stav, Giselle Rantisi, Yaakov Shainberg
2023/2024 - Yuval Lifshitze (student board coordinator), Yair Ernst, Yuval Ben Hamo, Ido Ben Simon, Noa Gal, Neta Zeira, Adir Yaakov, Or Yitshaki Benisti, Rotem Cohen, Michal Sadon
2024/2024 - Rotem Cohen (student board coordinator), Eliraz Schussheim, Aviya Hadad, Daniel bitan, Yonatan Ivgi, Carmel Hershkovitz, Noa Gal, Neta Zeira, Adi Glater, Shoval Yosef
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Table of Contents
Amichai Cohen & Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler
COVID-19, Governance and Democracy: a Reflexive Observation
Dorit Weiss & Eran dolev
A Clinical Trial in Israeli Children with the Live Vaccine
Against Poliomyelitis: A Unique Case
(1950-1960)
Yosef Cohen
On Vaccination Policy and the Role of Duty
Shahar Fisher & Oded Ron
Scapegoats and Alternatives in the Israeli Covid Crisis
Aeyal Gross & Nir Kosti
The Paradox of COVID-19 Legislation: Blurring the Distinction Between Primary and Secondary Legislation During Emergencies
Tehila Rozencwaig-Feldman
Who Will Protect Pregnant Women’s Labor Rights in Uncertain Times?
Ayelet Shavit & Ron Shavit
Functional Rhetoric During Crisis – Benjamin Netanyahu's Covid-19 Statements During the "First Wave" of 2020
Democratic Culture 21
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Gal Amir
Berlin, Disraeli, Al-Omar: The Nation State and Beyond
Kobi Assoulin
Education and Freedom of Speech: A Practice, Not a Principle
Irit Harboun
Arab Education in a Neo-Liberal Era: A Threat or an Opportunity for Equality?
Yaron Silverstein
HCJ 456/71 Sara Barzani v. Minister of Defense in Light of the "Babes in the Woods" Principle
Ofer Sitbon
Beyond Antisemitism: The Economic Boycott against Israel and the Settlements, the Ethical Consumer, and Corporate Responsibility
Aharon (Roni) Kampinsky
A Likud Bear Hug: The NRP Position Regarding Political Partnership with the Likud Party 1977-1992
Democratic Culture 20: Basic Law: Israel - The Nation State of The Jewish People
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Ori Aronson
Rainy Day Constitutionalism: Israel’s Nationality Law and the Jewish Majority Question
Yishai Blank & Alon Jasper
How to Interpret a (bad) Basic Law? On the Ethical Dilemmas in the Interpretation of Basic Law: Israel – The Nation State of the Jewish People
Amal Jabareen
The connection between Article 7 of Basic Law: Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people (Jewish settlement) and the definition of the state of Israel as the nation of the Jewish people
Tamar Hostovsky Brandes
The Right to Self-Determination in Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People
Ronit Levine-Schnur & Adam Shinar
Section 7 of Basic Law: Israel the Nation State – Can the Controversies be Settled?
Menachem Mautner
The Nation-State Law, the Escalation of the “War of Cultures," and the Need for Declaring a “Draw”
Hillel Sommer
Replacing the Nation-State Law with Basic Law: The State of Israel - a Jewish and Democratic State
Iddo Porat
Constitutional Politics and Regular Politics - The Nation Law, The Constituent Power Doctrine, and Constitutional Dualism
Meital Pinto
How Should We Interpret the Special Status of Arabic
Avi Sagi
After “The Nation State Law”: A Critical Analysis of Its Basic Principles
Democratic Culture 12
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Uri Zilbersheld
The Legal and Political Development of the Israeli Declaration of Independence - A Victory of the Bourgeois Democratic Concept
Ariel L. Feldstein
Dit It Really Hang on One Vote? The Meeting of People's Admonistration on the Eve of the Establishment of the State of Israel
Yaacov Yadgar
From Within and from Without: National Identity in Israel and its Reflection In the Changing Images of the National Other
Nissim Leon
Religion, Class, and Political Action in Religious-Zionism in Israel
Benyamin Neuberger
The Amish. The Rule of Law and Freedom of Religion - The Culture of Compromise in American Democracy
Michael Feige
The Imagined Communities of Archaeology: On Nationalism, Otherness and Surfaces
Ariel Picard
'According to the Law of Moses and Israel' - The Essence of Marriage Acoording to the Halakhic Decisors of the Twentieth Century: Civil Marriage as a Test Case
Democratic Culture 11
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Arye Edrei
Holocaust Memorial: A Paradigm of Competing Memories in the Religious and Secular Societies in Israel
Dalia Gavriely-Nuri
The Pretty War - Representations of War in the Israeli Culture 1967-1973
Udi Lebel
'Will All Be Remembered? The Exclusion of Etzel and Lehi Fallen from the State Narrative: Bereavement, Memory and the Political Delegitimation Strategy against the Herut Party
Avidov Lipsker
Barriers: Liminal Thresholds in A.B. Yehoshua's Ethnical Geography
Motti Inbari
Post-Zionism within the Religious National Camp: Case of the Jewish Leadership Movement
Avi Picard
Voting for Shas - The Rational Answer to Emotional Distress
Avi Sagi
Conscientious Objection (and its Status) in the Jewish Tradition
Book Review:
Gidon Sapir
Alexander Yakobson and Amnon Rubinstein, Israel and the Family of Nations: Jewish Nation-State and Human Rights
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Arye Edrei
Continuity or Rebirth: The Role of Memory in Post-Holocaust Religious Thought
Dalia Gavriely-Nuri
The Beautiful War - Representations of War in Israeli Culture, 1967-73
Motti Inbari
Post-Zionism in the Religious-Zionist Camp: The "Jewish Leadership" Movement
Udi Lebel
Shall We Remember Them All? The Exclusion of the Etzel (National Military Organization) and Lehi (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) Fallen from the "Narrative" of Statehood: On Bereavement Memory and the Theory of De-legitimization against Herut
Avidov Lipsker
Barriers: Liminal Thresholds in A.B Yehoshua's Ethical Geography
Avi Picard
Voting for Shas - The Rational Answer to Emotional Distress
Democratic Culture 10: Gender and Society in Israel - In Memory of Prof. Dafna Izraeli
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Articles
Adi Eyal
The Economic and Feminist Approaches to Law: An Eternal Feud, or
a Misunderstanding Among Friends?Orly Benjamin
Going Downhill in the Labor Market: The Commodification of Feminine Work Force in IsraelZehavit Gross
The Mute Feminist Psychological Template of Girl Graduates
of Religious-Zionist High Schools in IsraelHenriette Dahan-Kalev
Mizrahi Feminism, Post Colonialism and GlobalizationRuth Halperin-Kaddari
"Complete Equality...Irrespective of...Sex...":Women, Law and Social Change in IsraelHanna Herzog
Between the Lawn and the Gravel Path - Women, Politics, and Civil SocietyDafna Izraeli
Gender Politics in Israel: The Case of Affirmative Action in the Appointment of
Women to DirectorshipsTova Cohen
Jewish Women's Leadership: Israeli Modern Orthodoxy as a Test CaseAliza Lavie
Men are the Discourse and Women Only Add ColorPnina Lahav
Gender Politics and the Diaspora MuseumOrly Lubin
Between the Workers' Kitchen and the Hungarian Café An Autobiography of an Urban WomanHannah Safran
The Broken Dream, or The Legend of Equal Opportunity: Immigrant Women and the Myth of Equality in IsraelOrit Kamir
Typology and Analysis of Israeli Feminism
Democratic Culture 9
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David Ohana
Fascism as a Political Community of Experience:
Following Walter Benjamin's Political Phenomenology
Zeev Drory & Udi Lebel
Public Relations of Death: Conflicts of Memory in a National Memorial Site:
Mount Eytan Museum
Moshe Hellinger
Jewish Democracy and Democratic Judaism in the Thought Of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
Menachem Lorberbaum
Basic Paradigms of Medieval Jewish Political Thought
Yitzhak (Yani) Nevo
Two Models of Academic Freedom: The Case of Israeli Universities
Orit Kamir
At a Crossroads: Israel between Honor, Dignity, Glory and Respect
Democratic Culture 8
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Shlomo Avineri
Jewish Identity Between Tradition and Self-DeterminationShmuel Noah Eisenstadt
The Jewish Historical Experience in the Framework of World History
Ofer Mosseri & Arnon Gutfeld
Church, State and National Identity in Great Britain:
On the Distance Between Buckingham Palace, Ten Downing Street
and Canterbury Cathedral
Ami Pedahzur & Arie Perliger
The Challenge of Extremist Parties to Democratic Regimes: The Israeli Example
Ofer Kenig
Israel's Arab Parties from a Comparative Perspective:
The Challenge of Marginality and the Dilemma of Influence vs. Protest
Avi Sgi
Torah and Life: Halakhah in Eliezer Goldman's Thought
