Nir Kedar
Biographic Data
| ID | 6523963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nir Kedar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nir |
| FAMILY NAME | Kedar |
| SIGNATURE | KEDAR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy
Law and Identity in Israel
What makes Israeli law Israeli? Why is the word 'Jewish' almost entirely absent from Israeli legislation? How did Israel succeed in eluding a futile and dangerous debate over identity, and construct a progressive, independent, original and sophisticated legal system? Law and Identity in Israel attempts to answer these questions by looking at the complex bond between Zionism and the Jewish culture. Forging an original and 'authentic' Israeli law t…
The Rule of Law in Israel
The Rule of Law in Israel Nir Kedar (bio) The article discusses the rule of law in Israel's seventy years of independence. My claim is that despite the violent national conflict occurring within and at its borders, and despite it being a multi-cultural immigrant state, Israel managed to establish and maintain a developed democracy and rule of law. The first part sketches the Israeli constitutional order, with the aim of describing the strength of…
Ben-Gurion's Opposition to a Written Constitution
The foundation of Israel gave new significance to the heated dispute over modern Jewish identity. Accordingly, the Israeli constitutional debate, waged during the first two years of independence, threatened to become a focus of that cultural discussion. The article discusses David Ben-Gurion's fear that the ideological and cultural argument regarding the content of the constitution would turn into a futile cultural polemic that would divert Israe…
We need the messiah so that he may not come’
In his speeches and writings as Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion often used messianic language. In the late 1950s this policy evoked strong criticism in wide circles of the Israeli political and intellectual elite. The fear was that the combination of sweeping messianic ideas and Ben-Gurion's political might would inflict an irreparable blow to Israeli democracy. This article shows that, contrary to the claims of prominent Israeli intellectuals, …
Ben-Gurion's view of the place of Judaism in Israel
The article examines David Ben-Gurion's ideas on the place of Judaism in Israeli society during his term as prime minister, claiming that his stand on Judaism as a culture and religion was derived from his civic ideas. Ben-Gurion understood Judaism as a national culture extending beyond religion, based on the humanistic-political principles articulated by the biblical prophets, which had served as a moral compass throughout Jewish history and als…
Law and the Culture of Israel
A Civilian Commander in Chief
Civil Codification, Law and Culture in a Mixed Legal System
Jewish Republicanism
David Ben-Gurion is usually considered a labor leader or a Zionist national leader and is less remembered as a civilian head of state. Nevertheless, as premier of a fledgling state, he played a major role in shaping Israel's civil institutions and establishing democracy and the rule of law. This article seeks to show that Ben-Gurion's policy as a political leader was derived from a well-defined civic worldview encapsulated in the idea of “mamlakh…
Law, Culture and Civil Codification in a Mixed Legal System
Les comparativistes décrivent généralement les juridictions mixtes comme ayant été construites sur la double fondation du droit civil romano-germanique et de la common law anglo-américaine. Cette description largement acceptée examine les juridictions mixtes à partir d'une perspective juridique formelle interne. Mon étude propose un nouveau prisme analytique pour examiner les juridictions mixtes: une perspective qui prend en considération l'inter…
Ben-Gurion's Mamlakhtiyut
As central as the ambiguous political expression mamlakhtiyut is to Israeli culture and history, very few serious, systematic studies have heretofore attempted to deal with it. 1
Ben-Gurion's Mamlakhtiyut
As central as the ambiguous political expression mamlakhtiyut is to Israeli culture and history, very few serious, systematic studies have heretofore attempted to deal with it. 1
Ben-Gurion's Mamlakhtiyut
As central as the ambiguous political expression mamlakhtiyut is to Israeli culture and history, very few serious, systematic studies have heretofore attempted to deal with it. 1
Jewish Republicanism
David Ben-Gurion is usually considered a labor leader or a Zionist national leader and is less remembered as a civilian head of state. Nevertheless, as premier of a fledgling state, he played a major role in shaping Israel's civil institutions and establishing democracy and the rule of law. This article seeks to show that Ben-Gurion's policy as a political leader was derived from a well-defined civic worldview encapsulated in the idea of “mamlakh…
We need the messiah so that he may not come’
In his speeches and writings as Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion often used messianic language. In the late 1950s this policy evoked strong criticism in wide circles of the Israeli political and intellectual elite. The fear was that the combination of sweeping messianic ideas and Ben-Gurion's political might would inflict an irreparable blow to Israeli democracy. This article shows that, contrary to the claims of prominent Israeli intellectuals, …
The Rule of Law in Israel
The Rule of Law in Israel Nir Kedar (bio) The article discusses the rule of law in Israel's seventy years of independence. My claim is that despite the violent national conflict occurring within and at its borders, and despite it being a multi-cultural immigrant state, Israel managed to establish and maintain a developed democracy and rule of law. The first part sketches the Israeli constitutional order, with the aim of describing the strength of…
Ben-Gurion's view of the place of Judaism in Israel
The article examines David Ben-Gurion's ideas on the place of Judaism in Israeli society during his term as prime minister, claiming that his stand on Judaism as a culture and religion was derived from his civic ideas. Ben-Gurion understood Judaism as a national culture extending beyond religion, based on the humanistic-political principles articulated by the biblical prophets, which had served as a moral compass throughout Jewish history and als…
Ben-Gurion's Opposition to a Written Constitution
The foundation of Israel gave new significance to the heated dispute over modern Jewish identity. Accordingly, the Israeli constitutional debate, waged during the first two years of independence, threatened to become a focus of that cultural discussion. The article discusses David Ben-Gurion's fear that the ideological and cultural argument regarding the content of the constitution would turn into a futile cultural polemic that would divert Israe…
Ben-Gurion's Mamlakhtiyut
As central as the ambiguous political expression mamlakhtiyut is to Israeli culture and history, very few serious, systematic studies have heretofore attempted to deal with it. 1
Ben-Gurion's Mamlakhtiyut
As central as the ambiguous political expression mamlakhtiyut is to Israeli culture and history, very few serious, systematic studies have heretofore attempted to deal with it. 1
Civil Codification, Law and Culture in a Mixed Legal System
Jewish Republicanism
David Ben-Gurion is usually considered a labor leader or a Zionist national leader and is less remembered as a civilian head of state. Nevertheless, as premier of a fledgling state, he played a major role in shaping Israel's civil institutions and establishing democracy and the rule of law. This article seeks to show that Ben-Gurion's policy as a political leader was derived from a well-defined civic worldview encapsulated in the idea of “mamlakh…
Law, Culture and Civil Codification in a Mixed Legal System
Les comparativistes décrivent généralement les juridictions mixtes comme ayant été construites sur la double fondation du droit civil romano-germanique et de la common law anglo-américaine. Cette description largement acceptée examine les juridictions mixtes à partir d'une perspective juridique formelle interne. Mon étude propose un nouveau prisme analytique pour examiner les juridictions mixtes: une perspective qui prend en considération l'inter…
A Civilian Commander in Chief
Ben-Gurion's Opposition to a Written Constitution
The foundation of Israel gave new significance to the heated dispute over modern Jewish identity. Accordingly, the Israeli constitutional debate, waged during the first two years of independence, threatened to become a focus of that cultural discussion. The article discusses David Ben-Gurion's fear that the ideological and cultural argument regarding the content of the constitution would turn into a futile cultural polemic that would divert Israe…
We need the messiah so that he may not come’
In his speeches and writings as Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion often used messianic language. In the late 1950s this policy evoked strong criticism in wide circles of the Israeli political and intellectual elite. The fear was that the combination of sweeping messianic ideas and Ben-Gurion's political might would inflict an irreparable blow to Israeli democracy. This article shows that, contrary to the claims of prominent Israeli intellectuals, …
Ben-Gurion's view of the place of Judaism in Israel
The article examines David Ben-Gurion's ideas on the place of Judaism in Israeli society during his term as prime minister, claiming that his stand on Judaism as a culture and religion was derived from his civic ideas. Ben-Gurion understood Judaism as a national culture extending beyond religion, based on the humanistic-political principles articulated by the biblical prophets, which had served as a moral compass throughout Jewish history and als…
Law and the Culture of Israel
The Rule of Law in Israel
The Rule of Law in Israel Nir Kedar (bio) The article discusses the rule of law in Israel's seventy years of independence. My claim is that despite the violent national conflict occurring within and at its borders, and despite it being a multi-cultural immigrant state, Israel managed to establish and maintain a developed democracy and rule of law. The first part sketches the Israeli constitutional order, with the aim of describing the strength of…
Law and Identity in Israel
What makes Israeli law Israeli? Why is the word 'Jewish' almost entirely absent from Israeli legislation? How did Israel succeed in eluding a futile and dangerous debate over identity, and construct a progressive, independent, original and sophisticated legal system? Law and Identity in Israel attempts to answer these questions by looking at the complex bond between Zionism and the Jewish culture. Forging an original and 'authentic' Israeli law t…
David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy
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