Yad 2 website removed ads that included words "Kosher observants only" or "For religious and traditional observants" Israel is not the U.S., where property rights are a cultural ethos, writes Yossi Ben-Ghiat. The idea that private property belongs – well, to the individual – is a foreign idea, he says.

Ben- Ghiat: A civilized society needs people of the opposite kind. "I hate what you do with your property, but I give my life to defend your right to do so"