Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements regarding security issues at the press conference on December 2 miss the mark.
Israel is both a Jewish state and a democracy and should aim to unite all identities.
"Now is the time for the government and the Knesset to initiate a change to the Nation-State Law and repair the historical distortion regarding the Druze community," Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif wrote.
The gift of the founding generation must not be squandered.
This last bastion of consensus is under attack. If it succeeds, there will no longer be any text around which the State of Israel and Israeli society can unite.
The Declaration has seen renewed significance in recent months, used as a rallying banner by anti-judicial reform factions in opposition to the legal overhaul.
Reformists and coalition politicians will need to shore up their arguments as to why the court doesn't have the right to engage in a review of basic laws.
The decision of promoting the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the World Zionist Congress; and was promoted by the liberal factions of the Zionist Movement.
Justice Yitzhak Amit said that democracy doesn’t usually die all at once, “democracy dies in small steps.”
On Israel’s Declaration of Independence
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