Download or read book Theocratic Democracy written by Nachman Ben-Yehuda and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of Israel was established in 1948 as a Jewish democracy without a legal separation between religion and the state. An expert on the construction of social and moral problems, Nachman Ben-Yehuda examines more than 50 years of media-reported unconventional and deviant behaviour by the Haredi community.