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Israel’s Sovereignty Crisis
From ultra-Orthodox attacks on soldiers, to epidemic crime within and against Arab communities, to ministers contradicting national policy, Israel faces a sovereignty crisis from within
A Jewish boy throws water mixed with cement powder into a mixer in the Jewish Settlement of Adam, several kilometers from the West Bank city of Ramallah, as the Jewish residents symbolically resumed construction work on their settlement on September 1, 2010, in a defying move to protest the killing of four settlers by Palestinians near the West Bank town of Hebron the previous night. (MARCO LONGARI / AFP)
Can a country survive when tribal loyalty overwhelms collective responsibility?
This week on For Heaven’s Sake, Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi examine something unprecedented: while Israel defends its borders from external threats, it’s losing the ability to govern within them. From ultra-Orthodox attacks on IDF soldiers to epidemic crime within and against Arab communities to ministers contradicting national policy—Israel faces a sovereignty crisis from within.
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