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THE STATUS QUO IN ISRAEL WAS ESTABLISHED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL DURING THE PERIOD OF THE SETTLEMENT AND CONTINUES UNTIL TODAY. THE STATUS QUO IN ISRAEL CAN BE SEEN AS A GUIDELINE FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF RELIGIOUS AND STATE RELATIONS, AND THE RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR PUBLIC RELATIONS, BASED ON ARRANGEMENTS OBTAINED DURING THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL TO THE STATE OF ISRAEL. THESE ARRANGEMENTS INCLUDED THE STATUS OF THE RABBINATES AND LOCAL COUNCILS, AUTONOMY FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND OTHER LAWS IN THE FIELD OF SHABBAT AND TRAINING.

THE TRANSITION FROM THE COMMUNITY TO THE COUNTRY HAS CAUSED CHANGES IN THE AREAS OF LIFE THAT HAVE CREATED A FLEXIBLE ORDER USED AS A STARTING POINT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ARRANGEMENTS AFFECTED BY CHANGES AND YEARS AND SHAPE THE STATUS QUO.
SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL UNTIL THE 18TH KNESSET, THE STATUS QUO APPEARS IN ALL POLITICAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE RELIGIOUS PARTIES AND THE RULING PARTIES. THE STATUS QUO EXPRESSES THE ESSENCE OF THE SETTLEMENT POLITICS AT ITS CORE IS A SYSTEMATIC REFRAIN FROM A CLEAR DECISION ON THE CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES.

HISTORY OF HISTORY

THE RATIO OF THE LEADERS OF ZIONISM FOR COOPERATION WITH THE ORTHODOX.
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, ITS LEADERS, WHO WERE NOT RELIGIOUS, WERE WILLING TO “FINISH INTERNAL JEWISH POLITICAL COMPROMISES ON RELIGIOUS AND NATIONAL ISSUES” IN THE FACE OF THE ORTHODOX STREAMS IN ORDER TO ENABLE COOPERATION IN THE FULFILLMENT OF THE OBJECTIVES OF ZIONISM. THIS PARALLEL AND AS A MIRROR PICTURE FOR THE STATE MEETINGS TAKEN FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EASTERN CIRCLES.

EHUD LAZ AND HISTORIAN ANTHONY D. SMITH HAVE SHOWN IN THEIR STUDIES THAT ZIONISM WAS IN FACT A “REFORM POST” IN THIS SENSE THAT JEWISH LEADERS AFFILIATED WITH THE “ORDINANCE VALUES” WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY STRUGGLED WITH ORTHOPEDICSIA AND TRIED TO LEAD RELIGIOUS REFORMS, AS THE LEADERS OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT HAVE BECOME A COVENANT WITH IT TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL IDENTITY. AS EARLY AS 1842, ZECHARDA FRANKL RETIRED FROM THE REFORM MOVEMENT AND BECAME A FIGHTER AGAINST IT, IN THE BACKGROUND OF HIS DESIRE FOR “JEWISH POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE” AND A SIMILAR APPROACH CAN ALSO BE SEEN IN ZVI HERTZ AND MOSHE S.

IN THE ASSOCIATION OF PREFECTAL ENTHUSIASTS, THE DOMINANT FACTOR, WAS FORMULATED AS A COMPROMISE WITH ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN WHOM THE ORTHODOX HAVE GIVEN UP THE LEADERSHIP AND IN RETURN HAVE BEEN GRANTED “A WING OF ARMS IN THE WAR OF EDUCATION AND REFORM AND THE TRANSFER OF THE SPIRITUAL SUPERVISION OF THE MOVEMENT TO THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX, IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE TRADITIONAL NATURE OF THE NEWLY BUILT-IN SETTLEMENT IN ISRAEL.”

WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, BENJAMIN WOLF HERZL, AS A ZIONIST LEADER, ENDEAVORED TO BRING THE ORTHODOX STREAMS TO THE ZIONIST ENTERPRISE. THUS, HERZL RAISED ORTHODOX RABBIS WHO WOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE FIRST ZIONIST CONGRESS AND EVEN HONORED ONE OF THEM TO CARRY A BLESSING THAT OUR LIVES, IN THE OPENING OF THE FIRST ZIONIST CONGRESS, HERZL DECLARED THAT ZIONISM WAS “RETURNING TO JUDAISM BEFORE RETURNING TO THE LAND OF THE JEWS” AND IN WHICH HE PARTICIPATED, ALONG WITH HIS FRIEND MAX NORDAU, IN PRAYERS AT THE ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE IN BASEL. A FEW MONTHS LATER, HERZL PUBLISHED THE ARTICLE “THE NUN” IN WHICH HE RAISED THE IMPORTANCE OF COOPERATION WITH OTHER GROUPS OF JUDAISM, INCLUDING EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWRY WHICH WAS LARGELY ORTHODOX.

EVEN IN THE SECOND GENERATION OF ZIONISM, THE THINKERS OF THE LABOUR MOVEMENT, AARON DAVID GORDON AND BAREL AS A “PARTNER IN THE JEWISH AND PRIVATE CIRCLE HAVE HIDDEN RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS” INSTEAD OF UNIVERSAL SOCIAL VALUES. DAVID BEN-GURION, HIS COLLEAGUES AND HIS ACTIONS, ALSO EXPRESSED THE APPROACH THAT HE HAD SHOWN SUPREME VALUE IN COOPERATION WITH THE RELIGIOUS FACTORS AND WAS RIGHT FOR COMPROMISES FOR THAT.

THE STATUS LETTER

THE ACCEPTED OPINION ATTRIBUTES THE ORIGIN OF THE STATUS QUO TO THE LETTER SENT BY THE HEADS OF THE JEWISH AGENCY IN JUNE 1947 TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ISRAEL ASSOCIATION RABBI YITZHAK MEIR LEVIN. THIS LETTER, SIGNED BY DAVID BEN-GURION, RABBI YEHUDA LEIB FISHMAN FUNDED AND ISAAC GRAENBAUM WAS AIMED AT MOBILIZING THE SUPPORT OF THE ISRAEL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STRUGGLE OF THE ZIONIST HISTADRUT FOR THE PARTITION PLAN. THE LETTER SOUGHT TO QUIET THE CONCERNS OF THE LEADERS OF THE ISRAEL ASSOCIATION WHO FEARED