Being Israeli
Subtitle: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship (Cambridge Middle East Studies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780521796729
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Multicultural studies; Political culture; General; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology - General; Sociology; Israel; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Citizenship--Israel; Political Science / Civil Rights; Social Science / General; Social Science-General; Civil society; Citizenship
First sentence: For some time now, Israel's main political and moral dilemma has been describe as the need to choose between the two cardinal principles of its political culture: the particularistic commitment to being a Jewish state and the universalist commitment to being a Western-style democracy.