%0 Web Page %D 2021 %T How Israel’s Declaration of Independence Became Its Constitution %A Martin Kramer %X

Israel's proclamation of independence promised a convening within six months of a “constituent assembly” charged with drawing up a constitution. But because of the war and then postwar politics, this never happened. A proclamation that was never meant to serve as the basis of law became a kind of quasi-constitution, retroactively vested with legal standing. Has the proclamation  stood up to this test? Is it really the ultimate bulwark of the Jewish and democratic state?

Seventh part of a seven-part series. 

%B Mosaic Magazine %G eng %U https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-zionism/2021/11/how-israels-declaration-of-independence-became-its-constitution/ %N November 1