The religious parties of Israel and their role in making political decisions

Is it really that Israeli society is a complex society and its behavior cannot be predicted? And that based on this view, it cannot be definitively determined what the future of the Arab-Israeli conflict will be, relying on the analysis of this society's data? Then again, Israeli society—like all human societies—is a society of complex human phenomena; it cannot be analyzed through simple causality or that the same premises always lead to the same results. This can apply to natural sciences, but in human phenomena; the matter is quite different and more difficult, and this difficulty increases with the complexity of this phenomenon and society—as in the case of Israeli society, the subject of this book. Despite all this, studying Israeli society is an urgent necessity, considering that more than one scenario can be built—and not just one scenario—regarding the future of this society, and thus attempt to intervene to achieve a specific scenario, and exclude and neutralize others. That is the true value behind this type of study: to start from the past and present, always keeping an eye on the future. The book contains three chapters. The first chapter discusses the general vision of the political system in Israel, and the second chapter provides a detailed discussion of religious Zionist parties such as the Mizrahi Party, the Hapoel Hatzair Party, the Miflaga Party, and the MIMAD Party. In contrast to this chapter, the third chapter presents religious parties rejecting Zionism, such as the Ajudat Yisrael Party, the B'alei Ajudat Yisrael Party, the D'gel Hatorah Party, and the Shas Party. The book includes two appendices, one about Christian Zionism and its role in shaping political decision-making, and the second about the concepts of the Arab-Israeli conflict.