The complicated state-religion relationship in Israel: An illustrative case study of the Israeli government’s pandemic policy regarding the Hasidic community

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نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
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Claiming to be simultaneously a liberal democratic and Jewish state, the state-religion relationship in Israel has always been a complex one. Issues such as military service, conversion, laws of marriage and divorce, etc. have been points of serious contention in a regime where secular Zionists needed the cooperation of religious Jews to succeed in creating and preserving a state. Whether the state effectively regulates the lives of the ultra-orthodox (Hasidic) community, or that this community and its leaders are able to enforce their will unto Israeli governments is contested, and can vary case by case. This difficult relationship is a problem that is never completely solved, but rather managed through unstable compromise referred to as maintaining the so-called status-quo. The picture has become more complicated with the rising population and influence of the ultra-orthodox Jews in social and political sectors in recent years. The coronavirus pandemic and the government’s attempts at controlling the situation through regulating the daily lives of Israeli citizens have initiated a new arena of tension between the state and the Hasidic community. The current research is an illustrative case study of the interaction between the Israeli state and the Hasidic religious community during the coronavirus pandemic. It studies the different stages of the pandemic in Israel and the government’s response and policy related to the Hasidic community which experienced higher rates of infection. Online sources and data describing the state and the Hasidic community’s interaction regarding the pandemic are analysed in this illustrative case study. The study adopts Jonathan Fox’s (۲۰۱۱) four models/types of policies aiming to limit the role of religion in politics, which fall into two broad categories of separationist and secular, in its analysis of the data. It aims to understand if and how the state-religion relationship in Israel has evolved or changed, contributing to the existing literature aimed at clarifying and categorizing the state-religion relationship in Israel.

نویسندگان

Elham Kadkhodaee

Assistant Professor, Department of West Asian & North African Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. She is interested in constructivist international relations and critical discourse analysis. Her research is mainly focuse