67"
7
shara, an Arab Knesset member
from the Front for Peace and
Equality, announced his candi-
dacy for the post in the next na-
tional election. Not surprisingly,
Mr. Beshara decried Mr. Klein-
er's suggestion as "patently anti-
democratic." And he was far
from alone in expressing such
outrage. Knesset members
across the spectrum character-
ized the proposed bill as bla-
tantly racist.
Even Knesset Speaker Dan
Tichon, a veteran Likud parlia-
mentarian, pointedly reminded
his fellow-Likudnik that while
Israel is a Jewish state, "it is also
a democracy, and every citizen
has the right to forward his can-
didacy for the prime minister-
ship."
2
There is inherent
tension in Israel's
label of a
"democratic
Jewish" state.
But neither of these two bills
are likely to become law. Mr.
Rivlin's bill has been sent to
committee, and its chances of
passing a second and third read-
ing — with a full turnout in the
plenum — seem poor. And con-
sidering the broadside leveled
against Mr. Kleiner, it's ques-
tionable whether his bill will
pass even an initial reading.
Nevertheless, the two pro-
posals have again spotlighted
the tension of Israel's double
identity as a "democratic Jew-
ish state."
Many Israelis — mostly
Arabs, but some outspoken Jews
as well — argue that this defin-
ition is a contradiction. They
would prefer to see Israel define
itself as a "state of all its citi-
zens."
There are, of course, other
knotty problems related to the
identity debate, such as the re-
lationship between religion and
state in a modern democracy.
Common to them all is the
threat they pose to the cohesion
of Israeli society. 0
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