Abstract
Addressing the anguished, or often openly hostile, discovery of a deep incoherence at the heart of the idea that a modern state can be both Jewish and democratic, this essay surveys the norms and practice of the modern state of Israel – the rights of its citizens, including its Arab and non-Jewish citizens, the secular foundation of its organically evolving constitution, the role of Jewish values in its handling of human rights and civil entitlements, the dynamic of educational opportunity and universal service in socio-economic mobility and national integration, and (given the frequent charges of “disproportion”), the practice of its humane ideals in the conduct of asymmetrical war.
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