Królak Sylweriusz M., The Supreme Court of Israel’s route to constitutional democracy

Israel is an unusual state. One can enumerate the aspects which distinguish it from the rest of the world without difficulty – aspects that would surely concern most walks of private life as well as public life. It is a state where far-reaching moral freedom co-exists with numerous influential ultra-orthodox religious movements with deep roots in history, where love of freedom, stressed at every opportunity, walks hand in hand with very far-going universal acceptance of its restriction in the interests of security; there is also its extremely ethnically and culturally heterogeneous society, which consists of immigrant groups which have come from all corners of the globe and assimilated to a very variegated degree – these are only a few examples of the specifics of contemporary Israel. It is not difficult to notice that those peculiarities boil down to an unusual socio-cultural conglomerate which is characterised by the fusion of a panoply of frequently contradictory elements. The...