Briefing Document & Resources

Briefing Document

Additional resources

"Jewish and Democratic: Perspectives from World Jewry" (PDF) - JPPI Background Paper
"Can Israel Be Both Jewish and Democratic?" (PDF) - Ruth Gavison
"The Values of the State of Israel as a Jewish & Democratic State" (PDF) - Aharon Barak
"The Values of a Jewish and Democratic State: The Task of Reaching a Synthesis" (PDF) - Menachem Elon
"The Curious Case of Jewish Democracy" (PDF) - Amnon Rubinstein
"Israel: Jewish and Democratic" (PDF) - Gil Troy and Martin J. Raffel
"'A Jewish and Democratic State': Present Navigation in the Map of Interpretations" (PDF) - Asa Kasher
"How Democratic Can a Jewish State Get?" - Bernard Avishai
"The Jewish State in Question" (PDF) - Bernard Avishai
"Ben‐Gurion didn't recognize Israel as the nation state of the entire Jewish people" - Chemi Shalev

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