Abstract:
Due to its artificial and unnatural structure, Israeli society has since the beginning of its establishment, been a context for the emergence of different kinds of cleavages and tensions. This state of affairs has endangered the political stability of the Israeli regime. The present research is trying to answer this question: what is the effect of religious-secular cleavages in Israel on the future of the political stability of the regime? The article hypothesizes that the religious-secular cleavage is one of the most important social cleavages in Israel and its expansion can be considered as a serious threat to the political stability of the regime. The present research indicates that there are three kinds of cleavages in Israel which constitute the most important social cleavages in society: the Arab-Jewish cleavage; the Ashkenazi-Sephardim cleavage; and the religious-secular cleavage. Although all these three cleavages affect Israel’s political stability, we concentrate on the cleavage that exist between religious and secular forces in society as one of the most serious social cleavages in Israel. It undermines Israel's political stability in at least two ways: the cleavage undermines Israel's political legitimacy; and its shift from the social arena into the political arena transforms it into a political cleavage.
Machine summary:
Israeli society, political stability, religious-secular cleavage, social cleavage Journal of World Sociopolitical Studies| Vol. 2| No. 1| January 2018| pp.
From the point of view of various researchers, Israeli society has four basic features: Religious-Secular Cleavage and Political Stability in Israel Artificial and unnatural structure (Eftekhari, 1380 [2001 A.
Accordingly, it can be argued that from the perspective of seculars, both in Israel and anywhere else, the legitimacy of a regime is dependent on observing the following issues by that regime: paying due attention to the mundane world and ignoring other levels of the hereafter; setting religion aside and acting based on pure rationalism; adopting a rational, non-spiritual and materialistic worldview; moving towards the marginalization of religion in the social arena and conscious exclusion of it from politics; giving a non-religious dimension to the state; assuming a rational and scientific approach for managing the administrative affairs of society; separating religion from the state and interpreting world developments independent from religious tenets and instructions; and looking at religion as a private affair and personal choice (Fenn, 2001).
The majority of Israeli Religious-Secular Cleavage and Political Stability in Israel universities follow secular approaches.
Nevertheless, the cleavage between religious Jews and Religious-Secular Cleavage and Political Stability in Israel seculars has been one of the most important and threatening phenomenon in Israeli society since the establishment of the Jewish state.
Keywords:
Political Stability
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Israeli society
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religious-secular cleavage
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social cleavage
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