| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 320 pages) |
| Contents |
Government : the origins of Israel's declaration of independence -- Natural rights -- From natural rights to labor Zionism : Tzvi Berenson and the legal department draft -- International law : Herschel Lauterpacht's drafts -- Diplomacy : Moshe Shertok's draft -- Politics and law : debating the declaration -- Natural and historical right : David Ben-Gurion and Israel's declaration -- The laws of Israel and the Declaration of Independence -- Conclusion : sovereignty, the Jewish state, and principles of political right |
| Summary |
"Israel's Declaration of Independence is the first book-length treatment of the history and political thought of Israel's founding text. Through a presentation of the drafts of Israel's Declaration of Independence in English for the first time, Neil Rogachevsky and Dov Zigler examine the political and theoretical dilemmas faced by the founders of Israel as they prepared to declare independence. The issues at stake began with war, strategy, survival, and great power diplomacy, and ascended to the nature of rights, the relationship of religion and state, and the meaning of political sovereignty. The volume documents how the Declaration of Independence evolved and changed over several drafts. On May 14, 1948, Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion declared that it "is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State." With those words, he changed the trajectory of a nation and a region"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 22, 2022) |
| Subject |
Israel. Hakhrazah ʻal haḳamat Medinat Yiśraʼel.
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| SUBJECT |
Hakhrazah ʻal haḳamat Medinat Yiśraʼel (Israel) fast (OCoLC)fst01371253 |
| Subject |
Constitutional history -- Israel -- 20th century
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Constitutional history.
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| SUBJECT |
Israel -- History -- Declaration of Independence, 1948.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90005728
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| Subject |
Israel.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zigler, Dov, 1982- author.
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| LC no. |
2022030540 |
| ISBN |
9781009090841 |
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1009090844 |
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