Religious institutions in Israel; the debate of religion and politics

Religious institutions represent an essential value within Israeli society due to the utmost importance of religion itself; therefore, we find that these institutions spread widely within Israeli society, including religious educational institutions, partisan religious institutions, judicial religious institutions, and military religious institutions. Then, this book addresses these religious institutions as a vision of the official religion of the state when it enters the arena of politics and the extent of influence each has on the other; that is, how the religious theory is reshaped to align with the political stance of the state, and conversely, how much the political decision complies with the religious leaders, and the impact of all this on society, and then on the future of the Arab-Israeli conflict. On the other hand, it also examines its effect on religious thought itself, in its approach or distancing from the purpose for which it was revealed. From this perspective, the book is an attempt to derive a general principle or a comprehensive equation based on which the relationship between religion and the state in Israel is determined, and thus the future of religion there, and the relation of all this to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This equation may be difficult in the field of human studies, which is characterized by the complexity of its phenomena, but at the same time, it is not impossible. It is an equation that could make it possible to decode Israeli society, which moves in a vague manner, so that we do not know where it will place its feet in the next step.