Policy Paper 126 : The Erosion of the Status Quoiv Israeli society and its regnant values, changes in the composition of the population, the activism of the Supreme Court, the efforts of civil society organizations to promote religious pluralism, and the nonreligious sector’s increasing awareness of the nature of the religious services it is asked or forced to consume . These factors erode the current arrangements and affect the Jewish character of the state as reflected in concrete provisions . What is more, they reduce the relations between religion and state to near - chaos . On the one hand, court rulings and the situation on the ground are wearing away the old arrangement and creating islands of regulation within a sea of non - regulation or inconsistent regulation . On the other hand, the legislature and political system lack the power to come up new arrangements . The combination intensifies the fundamental and most important question in this domain : in what way is the Jewish s...
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