LEADER 02811oam 2200541 450 001 9910794515903321 005 20230627080225.0 010 $a0-253-05746-9 010 $a0-253-05745-0 035 $a(OCoLC)1232016629 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL56I1 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011990999 100 $a20210114h20212021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDavid Ben-Gurion and the foundation of Israeli democracy /$fNir Kedar ; translated by Haim Watzman 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBloomington, Indiana :$cIndiana University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (260 pages) 225 1 $aPerspectives on Israel studies 300 $aTranslated from the original Hebrew into English. 311 $a0-253-05744-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBen-Gurion versus a Constitution -- Democracy and the Army : Building an Army Subordinate to Democratic Government -- Establishing the Rule of Law -- Creating the State Administration -- Parliamentary Democracy and the Fight to Change the Electoral System -- A Democratic Jewish State : On the Place of Judaism in Israel -- A Sense of Peoplehood : Civic Responsibility and the Ashkenazi-Sephardi Divide -- Nationalism, Human Rights, and Security : Ben-Gurion, Israeli Arabs, and the Boundaries of Democracy and Mamlakhtiyut. 330 $a"In David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy, Nir Kedar offers a poignant study of the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Kedar provides an explication of the making of Israeli democracy in terms of its institutional-legal structures and social-cultural underpinnings. David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy connects the formal structures of democracy to the fundamental principles that they were constructed to serve-human freedom and dignity"--$cProvided by publisher 410 0$aPerspectives on Israel studies. 606 $aDemocracy$zIsrael$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivil society$zIsrael$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aConstitutional history$zIsrael 606 $aJudaism and state$zIsrael 607 $aIsrael$xPolitics and government$y1948-1967 615 0$aDemocracy$xHistory 615 0$aCivil society$xHistory 615 0$aConstitutional history 615 0$aJudaism and state 676 $a956.94052092 700 $aKedar$b Nir$01492491 702 $aWatzman$b Haim 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794515903321 996 $aDavid Ben-Gurion and the foundation of Israeli democracy$93715033 997 $aUNINA