Israel will celebrate its 75th anniversary on April 25 (in the Hebrew calendar, the date corresponds this year to May 14 - 1948) against the backdrop of a democratic crisis.
The Jewish state, which has always had to face external threats, is this time facing a serious internal crisis;
is this the most profound in its history and could it influence its future?
Isn't the Jewish state simply experiencing the fate of most contemporary Western societies, undermined by deep divisions?
Yes, absolutely!
But, in fact, it is neither new nor very original.
Almost all societies experience a “Kulturkampf”, a cultural struggle between at least two major perceptions of state, society and/or the body of values that an institutional regime and, through it, an entire country should embody.
Your readers are perfectly familiar with the paradigmatic case of France since 1789, but we can just as easily evoke the United States in the middle of the 19th century.
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