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Expressions of Hannah NOW BOOKING 2001-2003 Weddings Bar/Bat Mitzvahs Petite Coverage is available 5/4 2001 72 providing research and support to the Knesset on issues of economic and political reform. The institute has achieved success, most notably in its bipartisan support for overturning the law allowing the direct election of Israel's prime minis- ter. It also continues to play a critical, and unglamorous, role in developing a real budget process for the country. And it has been working with gov- ernment leaders to "decentralize" Israel's bureaucracy so that something as trivial as installing a traffic light at an intersection in Beersheva doesn't require Knesset approval. However, much of its energy and resources have been focused on devel- oping and ratifying a constitution. While the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 has served as a cornerstone for the country's governance, the task of creating a constitution was postponed to focus on building and defending the state. The sensitive issues of bal- ancing secular law with Halachah, or Torah law, Zionism with democracy, would have to wait. Photography of Children in your home only...$50.00 MarcJ. Cohen Photographing People.... 248-543-3637 email-Marcsphotography@mac.com "I have my own personal opinions, but that doesn't enter into it. We can't I ignore the fact that a high percentage of the population is Orthodox and they have to be incorporated into the system ... they are not on the outside and are a part of this committee." Marcus will be coming to Detroit on May 31 to create awareness for the work of the Israel Democracy Institute and its American Friends group. There will be no elaborate fundraiser or testi- monial dinner. Rather, he will be look- : ing for people "who understand what we are doing" and who want to be involved, personally or economically. "What we are doing is all intellectu- al; it is the grunt work that needs to be done if the state will survive in the future," Marcus said. He added that it's amazing how once people understand the way the state operates, and its travails, they want to help. Marcus and the institute have a core group of area supporters, including I Norman Pappas, Alon Kaufman, David Katzman, Alan Barry, Hannan Lis and Ann Newman. Former University of Michigan football All-American and Tennessee resident Mery Pregulman is I also active in the institute. Over the years, Israel has adopted a series of Basic Laws that, when cob- Much Still To Do. bled together, have become the coun- While there's much more work to be try's operative constitution. The "who done, Marcus takes great satisfaction. is a Jew" issue underscored how much : in just how far the Israel Democracy work still needed to be done. Institute has come. Currently, a group of 80-90 people "Ten years ago, I remember a dinner are participating in the drafting of a party with lawyers, doctors — the elite formal constitution, "the cream of the of Israel society — and we told them crop," according to Marcus. This com- what we wanted to do (with the insti- mittee is headed by the former presi- 1 tute). They laughed at us hysterically," dent of the Israel Supreme Court and Marcus recalled. has representatives from all parties, "Today, these same people apologize including the Orthodox. " The people writing this are members I and realize that, for the first time, they can 'fight city hall' and are joining in of every single party and the best-known to try and change the State of Israel names in Israel. It is a very serious into a better democracy endeavor," Marcus said. "We are moving "This thing has years to go. The along well and hopefully, within a year, road ahead is as long as the road we'll have a finished document that will behind it. Maybe it has to do with go to the Knesset. Since every party has I having a positive attitude, but I been involved, it should pass." believe things can be accomplished if One of the most difficult issues con- you put your heart, mind and soul fronting the constitution's framers is I into it," he added. "If we didn't think determining how Israel can be a Jewish we could do it, we wouldn't have tried state and a secular, democratic state. it. Chasing rainbows is not my idea of "This is the issue they are struggling how I want to spend my life." ❑ with now," Marcus said. "This is the missing part and they are attacking it. It won't be a complete document until For information about Bernard it is debated. The debate is being done Marcus' Detroit visit on behalf of publicly, and the country will have to the American Friends of the Israel look at itself and decide if it wants to Democracy Institute, call Norman be a Jewish state, a democracy or a Pappas, (248) 354-0458. secular state. They'll have to decide.