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In Israel, the Social Contract Has Been Broken

Protestors are out in the streets because they feel that the delicate balance that was part of the social contract in the state has been broken.
Photo: Omer Toledano/Wikimedia Commons License
Photo: Omer Toledano/Wikimedia Commons License
Dr. Tomer Persico is a research fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute. He was the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at U.C. Berkeley, where he was also a Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Persico is a social activist advocating for freedom of religion in Israel. A leading thinker about secularization, Jewish Renewal and forms of contemporary spirituality, Persico writes the most popular blog in Hebrew

“Protestors are out in the streets because they feel that the delicate balance that was part of the social contract in the state has been broken, the same balance that ensured economic prosperity alongside funding the yeshiva world, a liberal public sphere alongside the maintenance of settlements.”

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