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 at the Shalom Hartman Institute, a Rubinstein Fellow at Reichman University and a Senior Research Scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His fields of expertise include contemporary spirituality, Jewish modern identity, Jewish renewal, and forms of secularization and religiosity in Israel. His first book, The Jewish Meditative Tradition (Hebrew) was published by Tel Aviv University Press in 2016, and his second book, In God’s Image:

“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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