About this episode

The episode discusses the conflict over Israel's identity amidst judicial reform debates and the challenges of national unity.

By the summer of 2023, it was clear that judicial reform was never really the story: The real battle was over Israel’s identity. And that battle touched on the deepest fears and disagreements Israelis were too busy surviving to address ever since the nation’s inception. Can an Israel occupied by a religious majority remain recognizable to the nation’s secular elites? Can its institutions be reformed to better reflect the will of the country’s democratically elected majority? And can Israelis resolve all of these deep and difficult quarrels and still remain one people? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topics covered

• Israel's identity
• judicial reform
• religious majority
• secular elites
• democratic majority
• national unity

Keywords

• Israel
• judicial reform
• religious majority
• secular elites
• national identity
• democracy
• cultural conflict

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Places: Israel

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