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Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation between church and state” is difficult to find in the State of Israel. Israel is different in many respects from every other country in the modern world in its concept of, and application of, the separation of church and state.
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Estimates vary, but anywhere from 650,000 to 800,000 Jews left Arab and Muslim countries in the Persian Gulf or North Africa in the period beginning around 1948 and continuing into the early 1960s. The vast majority were resettled in Israel. See Itamar Levin, Locked Doors: The Seizure ofJewish Property in Arab Countries (New York: Greenwood Press, 2001).
These historical developments were the Balfour Declaration, the Holocaust, growing anti-Semitism, and Jewish assimilation that threatened many of the great centers and institutions for the study of the Torah.
Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah declines to permit Aguda MKs to hold ministerial portfolios in Israeli coalition governments, for to do so would be to imply full concurrence with the state’s secular orientation.
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Goldberg, D.H., Reich, B. (2009). Religion and State in the State of Israel. In: Fatton, R., Ramazani, R.K. (eds) Religion, State, and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617865_12
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