Religious institutions in Israel, debate of religion and politics

Religious institutions represent an essential value within Israeli society due to the importance of religion itself, so we find that these institutions are widely spread within Israeli society, including religious educational institutions, religious partisan institutions, judicial and military religious institutions. Therefore, this book addresses these religious institutions as a vision of the official religion of the state— the state institution's religion— and how religion interacts with politics, and the extent of influence each has on the other; that is, how the religious theory is reshaped to align with the state's political stance, and conversely, how much political decisions are influenced by religious men, 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 terms of its proximity to or deviation from its original purpose for which it was revealed. From this perspective, the book is an attempt to derive a general principle or a comprehensive equation that determines the relationship between religion and the state in Israel, and thus the future of religion there, and how all this relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This equation may be difficult in the field of human studies, which is characterized by complex phenomena, but at the same time, it is not impossible. It is an equation that could make it possible to decode the Israeli society, which moves with vague steps; we do not know where it will place its feet in the next step.