caa a22 4500 388053798 CHVBK 20180307125100.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002122370001579X doi S002122370001579X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002122370001579X Avnon Dan The Israeli Basic Laws' (Potentially) Fatal Flaw [Elektronische Daten] [Dan Avnon] For generations the question of the political form worthy of its apparent telos has occupied the best legal, philosophical and rabbinical minds of the Jewish tradition. Resolution of the political question presupposes resolution of the theological question of whether the Jewish people indeed have a unique telos, and whether this telos is linked to a particular political or social form. This ongoing deliberation is one of the defining features of the inter-generational dialogue within the Jewish heritage. When the Zionist movement declared its intention to initiate the founding of a Jewish State in Zion, this decision caused unprecedented turmoil in Jewish communities. For some, the creation of a political entity in the Land of Israel signaled a brash and unwelcome rejection of the Orthodox belief that the return will occur only in the days of the Messiah, until which time political inaction is the appropriate conduct. Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1998 Israel Law Review Cambridge University Press 32/4(1998), 535-566 0021-2237 32:4<535 1998 32 ISR https://doi.org/10.1017/S002122370001579X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002122370001579X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Avnon Dan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Israel Law Review Cambridge University Press 32/4(1998), 535-566 0021-2237 32:4<535 1998 32 ISR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge