Isabel Kershner of the New York Times has written an absorbing account of a country at war with itself
The Land of Hope and Fear is reminiscence, scorecard and guidebook all in one. It is personally revealing. Early on, Kershner attempts to make sense of what she describes as a “national unraveling”. Cue Reuven Rivlin, the country’s 10th president, and his 2015 “Four Tribes” speech, which Kershner details at length.
In Rivlin’s taxonomy, Israel is broadly split along the lines of Arab, ultra-Orthodox, national religious and secular. “The ‘new Israeli order’ is not an apocalyptic prophecy,” he says. That “reality” can “already be seen in the composition of the first-grade classes in the Israeli education system”.
Eight years later, all that is truer than ever. The divides grow starker and deeper, going beyond the classroom, touching the hot-buttons of military service, religion, income and education. What it means to be Israeli is up for grabs.
. For good measure, Rothman expressed his admiration for Viktor Orbán of Hungary, adding: “Those who don’t wear a kippa are actually harming democracy.”
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