Volume 21, Number 7 · May 2, 1974
Israel: The Last Hurrah
By Bernard Avishai
No historical struggle, no cultural revival has been more deliberate and self-conscious than that of the Jews in Israel. They are fanatics about individual liberty and personal independence—often to a point of being impudent and undisciplined—and in bearing immense burdens they have evolved a comparatively sophisticated egalitarian spirit. No doubt Israel is and had to be a 'free society'; but it has become a very poor democracy.
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