Introduction Israel is one of only two democracies in the world (alongside England) that has not enacted a formal constitution, despite a...

Translated into: Kfiah Datit. Kfiah: coercion/force Datit: Religious. Israel was founded with the unique challenge of integrating diverse...

The Workers Party of the Land of Israel Established in 1930, the Mapai party resulted from the union of two parties: Ahdut HaAvoda and...

The Status-Quo Agreement, initially established through a letter on the 19th of June 1947, was an understanding reached with religious...

Agudat Israel is a political party founded in 1912 in Poland. It was intended to be a political tool to preserve the ultra-Orthodox way...

Name The name "Knesset" comes from the ancient Knesset HaGdola, or "Great Assembly" in Hebrew, which was a group of 120 scribes, sages,...

The Knesset, Israel's parliament, is composed of 120 members. Any Israeli citizen over 21 can be elected to the Knesset, except for...

The Law of Return was a law passed by the Knesset (Israel's parliament) on July 5th, 1950 , two years after the State of Israel was...

Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed in Israel every year on the 27th of (the Hebrew month of) Nisan. It commemorates the Holocaust. The Knesset adopted the law in 1959.

Yom Hazikaron leYitshak Rabin Memorial Day for the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is a national day of remembrance...

Israel's national anthem, Hatikvah ("The Hope"), expresses the Jewish people's longing to return to Israel, the land of their...