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A. THE ATTEMPT TO CREATE A LINKAGE BETWEEN ISRAELI LAW AND THE HALAKHAH: THE MOVEMENT FOR THE REVIVAL OF HEBREW LAW A. THE ATTEMPT TO CREATE A LINKAGE BETWEEN ISRAELI LAW AND THE HALAKHAH: THE MOVEMENT FOR THE REVIVAL OF HEBREW LAW
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B. THE ANGLICIZATION AND LIBERALIZATION OF THE LAW B. THE ANGLICIZATION AND LIBERALIZATION OF THE LAW
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(a) The Anglicization of the law (a) The Anglicization of the law
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(b) The courts as agents of liberal values (b) The courts as agents of liberal values
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(c) ‘Westwardness’ v Judaism (c) ‘Westwardness’ v Judaism
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C. THE FOUNDATIONS OF LAW STATUTE AND THE PLACE OF ‘ISRAEL’S HERITAGE’ IN ISRAELI LAW C. THE FOUNDATIONS OF LAW STATUTE AND THE PLACE OF ‘ISRAEL’S HERITAGE’ IN ISRAELI LAW
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D. THE BASIC LAWS OF 1992 AND THE DEFINITION OF ISRAEL AS A ‘JEWISH AND DEMOCRATIC STATE’ D. THE BASIC LAWS OF 1992 AND THE DEFINITION OF ISRAEL AS A ‘JEWISH AND DEMOCRATIC STATE’
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(a) Equating the status of the Jewish and Democratic-Liberal components in the future development of Israeli law (a) Equating the status of the Jewish and Democratic-Liberal components in the future development of Israeli law
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(b) A possible change in the contents of the concept ‘Democratic State’ (b) A possible change in the contents of the concept ‘Democratic State’
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(c) ‘Jewish State’ (c) ‘Jewish State’
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(d) Reconciling the ‘Jewish State’ and ‘Democratic State’ (d) Reconciling the ‘Jewish State’ and ‘Democratic State’
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E. CONCLUSION E. CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER 2 THE CULTURAL STRUGGLES OVER THE SHAPING OF THE LAW
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Published:January 2011
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Abstract
This chapter discusses a series of struggles that took place in the course of the 20th century over the cultural character of Israeli law. In the first half of the century, a ‘Movement for the Revival of Hebrew Law’ was active in Eretz Israel. It strove to fashion Israeli law in accordance with the contents of the Halakhah, after adaptation to modern jurisprudence. The development of the law in the State of Israel, however, followed an entirely different course. During the thirty years of the British government over Palestine (1918–48), the local legal community underwent an extensive process of Anglicization. In its wake, the law of the State of Israel developed in close association with Anglo-American law and with the political theory that underlies it — liberalism. The call for a linkage between Israeli law and the Halakhah was reasserted following two legislative developments in the 1980s and 1990s. The first was the enactment of the Foundations of Law statute in 1980, stating that among the sources for filling lacuna in the law are ‘the principles of freedom, justice, equity, and peace of Israel's heritage’. The second was the enactment in 1992 of the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, and Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation. These two Basic Laws defined Israel as a ‘Jewish and democratic state’. The grant of standing to ‘Jewish heritage’ in the country's law and definition of Israel as a ‘Jewish state’ served as the basis for a claim that it is the legislative intention to develop Israeli law in affinity with the Halakhah. Supreme Court Justices Menachem Elon and Aharon Barak engaged in a vigorous debate over the cultural orientation to be adopted in the development of Israeli law in the ensuing decades. The debate shed light not only on the two options relevant to the future development of Israeli law, but also on the two main cultural options between which the Jewish people has vacillate! d in the modern era: Western culture and traditional Jewish culture.
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