Everyone knows Israel is a Jewish state. Why is the nation-state law necessary? Supporters say it’s because Israel’s Jewishness has never really been made into law. Judaism is mentioned ...

It enshrines in Israel’s quasi-constitutional Basic Law that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people. But after that it gets more complicated. Much of the bill, sponsored by Prime ...

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It was predicted and warned about, as the Zionist movement grew, that the effect of creating a Jewish nation-state would be Jews ... should live under the same law. And they should work to repair ...

with the creation of a Jewish nation-state. And they feared a horrific genocide should the antisemites rise up and kill them – which they experienced in Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. To better ...