Revisiting the Protection of Individual Rights and Community Rights on the Grounds of Religious Belief in Israel: A Theoretical Criticism and Case Analysis

The complexity of protecting religious rights is intensified in multicultural or multi-religious and multi-national societies. Such is the case in Israel, which is both democratic, multicultural and multi-religious and a Jewish state. In this article I will argue that all of these characteristics, and mainly the last one, have implications for the forms of governing and protecting individual and community rights on the grounds of religious belief in Israel.