Asher Cohen is a lecturer in the Department of Politics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is the author of The Prayer Shawl and the Flag: Religious Zionism and the Vision of a Torah State in Israel's Formative Years. Bernard Susser is the Senator Patterson Professor of Politics at Bar-Ilan University. His many books include The Grammar of Modern Ideology and Choosing Survival: Prospects for a Jewish Future.

Mandatory reading for anyone interested in Israeli society, which excellently exemplifies the relationship between the two leading forces in human history, politics and religion. -- Yael Yishai American Political Science Review An able and authoritative study. -- Alan Mittleman Journal of Church and State Professor Susser and Mr. Cohen have done their job well on two counts. First, they describe the crisis in clear, lucid language. The book is extremely well-organized, very comprehensive, and eminently readable. The second count is critical... they remarkably do not take sides. They are academically cautious, successfully presenting a scholarly history of painful events which will certainly influence Israel's political map for years to come. -- Jehuda J. Levin Jewish Book World Topical and well written, this book clearly describes the rising conflict between religious and secular Jews as the original compromise agreements to prevent such conflict collapse. This is the first book to bring together all the relevant data, and the authors make their point very well. Robert O. Freedman, President, Baltimore Hebrew University, editor of Israel in the Begin Era and Israel under Rabin

• PrefacePrologue: From Compromise to CrisisChapter 1. Religion and State in IsraelChapter 2. Consociational Democracy in the First GenerationChapter 3. Old Issues, New PoliticsChapter 4. The Judicial and Constitutional Dimension Chapter 5. Demographic, Cultural, and Religious ChangesChapter 6. The Future of ConsociationalismNotesIndex

Asher Cohen is a lecturer in the Department of Politics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is the author of The Prayer Shawl and the Flag: Religious Zionism and the Vision of a Torah State in Israel's Formative Years. Bernard Susser is the Senator Patterson Professor of Politics at Bar-Ilan University. His many books include The Grammar of Modern Ideology and Choosing Survival: Prospects for a Jewish Future.

Mandatory reading for anyone interested in Israeli society, which excellently exemplifies the relationship between the two leading forces in human history, politics and religion. -- Yael Yishai American Political Science Review An able and authoritative study. -- Alan Mittleman Journal of Church and State Professor Susser and Mr. Cohen have done their job well on two counts. First, they describe the crisis in clear, lucid language. The book is extremely well-organized, very comprehensive, and eminently readable. The second count is critical... they remarkably do not take sides. They are academically cautious, successfully presenting a scholarly history of painful events which will certainly influence Israel's political map for years to come. -- Jehuda J. Levin Jewish Book World Topical and well written, this book clearly describes the rising conflict between religious and secular Jews as the original compromise agreements to prevent such conflict collapse. This is the first book to bring together all the relevant data, and the authors make their point very well. Robert O. Freedman, President, Baltimore Hebrew University, editor of Israel in the Begin Era and Israel under Rabin

• PrefacePrologue: From Compromise to CrisisChapter 1. Religion and State in IsraelChapter 2. Consociational Democracy in the First GenerationChapter 3. Old Issues, New PoliticsChapter 4. The Judicial and Constitutional Dimension Chapter 5. Demographic, Cultural, and Religious ChangesChapter 6. The Future of ConsociationalismNotesIndex

Asher Cohen is a lecturer in the Department of Politics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is the author of The Prayer Shawl and the Flag: Religious Zionism and the Vision of a Torah State in Israel's Formative Years. Bernard Susser is the Senator Patterson Professor of Politics at Bar-Ilan University. His many books include The Grammar of Modern Ideology and Choosing Survival: Prospects for a Jewish Future.

Mandatory reading for anyone interested in Israeli society, which excellently exemplifies the relationship between the two leading forces in human history, politics and religion. -- Yael Yishai American Political Science Review An able and authoritative study. -- Alan Mittleman Journal of Church and State Professor Susser and Mr. Cohen have done their job well on two counts. First, they describe the crisis in clear, lucid language. The book is extremely well-organized, very comprehensive, and eminently readable. The second count is critical... they remarkably do not take sides. They are academically cautious, successfully presenting a scholarly history of painful events which will certainly influence Israel's political map for years to come. -- Jehuda J. Levin Jewish Book World Topical and well written, this book clearly describes the rising conflict between religious and secular Jews as the original compromise agreements to prevent such conflict collapse. This is the first book to bring together all the relevant data, and the authors make their point very well. Robert O. Freedman, President, Baltimore Hebrew University, editor of Israel in the Begin Era and Israel under Rabin

• PrefacePrologue: From Compromise to CrisisChapter 1. Religion and State in IsraelChapter 2. Consociational Democracy in the First GenerationChapter 3. Old Issues, New PoliticsChapter 4. The Judicial and Constitutional Dimension Chapter 5. Demographic, Cultural, and Religious ChangesChapter 6. The Future of ConsociationalismNotesIndex