Israel Law: Components and Trends

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Interest in the legal system of Israel is enhanced by the circumstances in which the new State came into being.The circumstances of place are peculiar, in that the territory of Israel is situated at the cross-roads of two continents and at the very focus of movements of upheaval by which they are both so deeply stirred.No less unusual are the circumstances of time. The proclamation of independence, for all its novelty, was not in the nature of a birth certificate, but rather of an official record of resurrection witnessed after a hiatus of close on two thousand years. No other people, so it seems, better demonstrates the adage that a nation's history is reflected in its institutions. Driven into exile and scattered to every corner of the earth for so many generations, it is now retrieving its identity in a supreme effort of reunion in its never-forgotten home-land. In the meantime, the fund of experience accumulated during the great dispersion has left its mark on the individuality of every immigrant, so that in many respects the mental attitude of the population is as variegated as the rainbow.

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