Israeli Law Guide. Updated November 2007. The viewpoints contained in this guide are those of the author and are not to be attributed to the Law Library of Congress. Table of Contents The State of Israel is a Western-style modern democracy located in the Middle East in part on the land of the Bible, the traditional home of the Jewish people. The reborn modern state was established on May, 14, 1948, as a national home for the Jewish people.
Statehood was recognized as a possible solution to the problem of homelessness following the massacre of million of Jews in the Holocaust in Europe. Israel has held a parliamentary system since its establishment and except for a brief period of experimentation with a dual election system of direct election of the Prime Minister separate from that of the Knesset (Parliament), it has maintained a system of single general elections to be held once every four years. The Absence of a Single-Document Written Constitution Supremacy of the Law Central Status for the Judiciary I. SCOTUSblog. PROFESSOR RONALD DWORKIN & JUSTICE AHARON BARACK. PROFESSOR RONALD DWORKIN & JUSTICE AHARON BARACK. PROFESSOR RONALD DWORKIN & JUSTICE AHARON BARACK.