Israel and the Family of Nations
Can Israel be both Jewish and truly democratic? How can a nation-state, which incorporates a large national minority with a distinct identity of its own, be a state of all its citizens?
Written by two eminent Israeli scholars, a professor of constitutional law and a historian, Alexander Yakobson and Amnon Rubinstein are the first to treat Zionism and Israeli experience in light of other states experiences and in particular of newly established states that have undergone constitutional changes and wrestled with issues of minorities. Citing various European constitutions and laws, the authors explore the concept of a Jewish state and its various meanings in the light of international law, and the current norms of human rights as applied to other democratic societies compatible with liberal democratic norms and conclude that international reality does not accord with the concept that regards a modern liberal democracy as a culturally neutral and nationally colourless entity.
In light of the new political map in Israel and the prospect of future disengagement from the West Bank, Israel and the Family of Nations is essential reading for all those who wish to understand Israels future challenges.
Dr Alexander Yakobson is a Senior Lecturer in the history department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Amnon Rubinstein is currently Provost and Dean of the Radzyner School of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzlia. He is a former Minister of Education and a regular contributor to Israeli dailies.
Israeli history, politics and society
Series Editor: Efraim Karsh
Kings College London
This series provides a multidisciplinary examination of all aspects of Israeli history, politics and society, and serves as a means of communication between the various communities interested in Israel: academics, policy-makers, practitioners, journalists and the informed public.
1 Peace in the Middle East
The challenge for Israel
Edited by Efraim Karsh
2 The Shaping of Israeli Identity
Myth, memory and trauma
Edited by Robert Wistrich and David Ohana
3 Between War and Peace
Dilemmas of Israeli security
Edited by Efraim Karsh
4 USIsraeli Relations at the Crossroads
Edited by Gabriel Sheffer
5 Revisiting the Yom Kippur War
Edited by P.R. Kumaraswamy
6 Israel
The dynamics of change and continuity
Edited by David Levi-Faur, Gabriel Sheffer and David Vogel
7 In Search of Identity
Jewish aspects in Israeli culture
Edited by Dan Urian and Efraim Karsh
8 Israel at the Polls, 1996
Edited by Daniel J. Elazar and Shmuel Sandler
9 From Rabin to Netanyahu
Israels troubled agenda
Edited by Efraim Karsh
10 Fabricating Israeli History
The new historians, second revised edition
Efraim Karsh
11 Divided against Zion
Anti-Zionist opposition in Britain to a Jewish State in Palestine, 19451948
Rory Miller
12 Peacemaking in a Divided Society
Israel after Rabin
Edited by Sasson Sofer
13 A Twenty-Year Retrospective of EgyptianIsraeli Relations
Peace in spite of everything
Ephraim Dowek
14 Global Politics
Essays in honor of David Vital
Edited by Abraham Ben-Zvi and Aharon Klieman
15 Parties, Elections and Cleavages
Israel in comparative and theoretical perspective
Edited by Reuven Y. Hazan and Moshe Maor
16 Israel at the Polls 1999
Edited by Daniel J. Elazar and M. Ben Mollov
17 Public Policy in Israel
Edited by David Nachmias and Gila Menahem
18 Developments in Israeli Public Administration
Edited by Moshe Maor
19 Israeli Diplomacy and the Quest for Peace
Mordechai Gazit
20 IsraeliRomanian Relations at the End of Ceaucecus Era
Yosef Govrin
21 John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel
Abraham Ben-Zvi
22 Green Crescent over Nazareth
The displacement of Christians by Muslims in the Holy Land
Raphael Israeli
23 Jerusalem Divided
The armistice region, 19471967
Raphael Israeli
24 Decision on Palestine Deferred
America, Britain and wartime diplomacy, 19391945
Monty Noam Penkower
25 A Dissenting Democracy
The case of peace now, an Israeli peace movement
Magnus Norell
26 Britain, Israel and Anglo-Jewry 19471957
Natan Aridan
27 Israeli Identity
In search of a successor to the pioneer, tsabar and settler
Lilly Weissbrod
28 The Israeli Palestinians
An Arab minority in the Jewish State
Edited by Alexander Bligh
29 Israel, the Hashemites and the Palestinians
The fateful triangle
Edited by Efraim Karsh and P.R. Kumaraswamy
30 Last Days in Israel
Abraham Diskin
31 War in Palestine, 1948
Strategy and diplomacy
David Tal
32 Rethinking the Middle East
Efraim Karsh
33 Ben-Gurion against the Knesset
Giora Goldberg
34 Trapped Fools
Thirty years of Israeli policy in the territories
Schlomo Gazit
35 Israels Quest for Recognition and Acceptance in Asia
Garrison state diplomacy
Jacob Abadi
36 The Harp and Shield of David
Ireland, Zionism and the State of Israel, 19371963
Eliash Shulamit
37 H.V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel
The undercover Zionist
Daniel Mandel
38 Navigating Perilous Waters
An Israeli strategy for peace and security
Ephraim Sneh
39 Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel
In the shadow of the hawk
Abraham Ben-Zvi
40 Israel at the Polls 2003
Edited by Shmeul Sandler, Ben M. Mollov and Jonathan Rynhold
41 Between Capital and Land
The Jewish national funds finances and land-purchase priorities in Palestine, 19391945
Eric Engel Tuten
42 Israeli Democracy at the Crossroads
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
43 Israeli Institutions at the Crossroads
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
44 The IsraeliPalestine Peace Process Negotiations, 19992001
Within reach
Gilead Sher
45 Ben-Gurions Political Struggles, 196367
A lion in winter
Zaki Shalom
46 Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry
19481963
Ariel Feldestein
47 The Origins of the AmericanIsraeli Alliance
The Jordanian factor
Abraham Ben-Zvi
48 Israels National Security
Issues and challenges since the Yom Kippur War
Efraim Inbar
49 The Rise of Israel
A history of a revolutionary state
Jonathan Adelman
50 Israel and the Family of Nations
The Jewish nation-state and human rights
Alexander Yakobson and Amnon Rubinstein
Israel: The First Hundred Years (Mini Series)
Edited by Efraim Karsh
1 Israels Transition from Community to State
Edited by Efraim Karsh
2 From War to Peace?
Edited by Efraim Karsh
3 Politics and Society since 1948
Edited by Efraim Karsh
4 Israel in the International Arena
Edited by Efraim Karsh
5 Israel in the Next Century
