At 08:13 PM 1/2/02 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Along these lines...
>
>Ilana? Is there anything in Israel's charter or Constitution that says it
is
>a Jewish state? I don't believe that there is, but I'd be interested in
>finding out.
You've just hit upon a great trivia question.
Israel doesn't *have* a Constitution.
IIRC, it is for precisely this reason, the religious Zionists wouldn't
accept a Constitution where Israel was not explicitly Jewish and the
secularists wouldn't accept a Constitution where Israel was made explicitly
Jewish.
JDG
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