Discord in Israel

Originally I had planned to devote this Letter to the internal situation in Israel—the socioeconomic gap and the Black Panthers, signs of corruption in high places, the New Class, and other strains facing a fundamentally egalitarian society that finds it increasingly difficult to reconcile theory and practice. But upon coming back to Israel toward the end of January after a short stay abroad, I found the country “up to its neck” in ideology. The 28th Zionist Congress, after ten ...