Nation-state
Basic Truths About The Basic Law
The basic Zionist values articulated by this law have been supported by every government since the creation of the State of Israel. Israel as the home of Jewish self-determination;...
A Zionist constitutional revolution
The likely passage of the nation-state bill is the most important Zionist development to be inserted into Israel’s lawbooks since the Law of Return was passed in 1950. The...
Get Over It—Israel Is the Jewish State
Let the hand-wringing and denunciations begin. On Thursday Israel finally expressed in constitutional law the basic achievement of Zionism: Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people. In the...
The Case for Israel’s Jewish State Law
Until the passing of the basic law on Israel as a nation-state, the court had no constitutional basis to reject anti-Zionist petitions and to protect Israel’s Jewishness. Now it...
On the necessity of the Jewish State Bill
In an interview to Melanie Philips’s show on the Voice of Israel (11/30/2014) Prof. Koppel explained the necessity of the Jewish state Bill
On basic law Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people
Prof. Diskin explains the rationale of the Basic law: Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people which he was one of its initiators