A State with a Jewish Identity in an Unpromised Land
Basic Contours
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The idea of establishing a new state with a Jewish identity (distinct from Israel, which is the nation-state of the Jewish people) that will be located in a different geographical region of the world, was first conceived in 2020. Since then, it has grown, developed and acquired its unique characteristics. Even then, at the peak of Israel's flourishing period, long before the social unrest of 2023, the massacre of October 7th and all that followed, both in Israel and around the world, it was felt that the idea responded to a genuine need. Its essence is the creation of an alternative state for Jews living in the diaspora, and for some of the Israelis who decide to leave Israel and live abroad. This initiative also presents an opportunity to create a state based on the principles of classical liberalism, focusing on individual freedom, economic liberty, and property rights over the centralization of governmental mechanisms.
The vision of Yehodaya is intended for leaders of all ages whose thinking is free and bold, with a pulsating Jewish identity and a burning desire to create a safe home, in a free and just society, for themselves, their children, and future generations.
Yehodaya's path is reserved for realistic women and men who recognize the urgency of establishing another safe-haven for their people, amid an era of intensifying global storms, increasing uncertainty, and virulent, overt, and dangerous anti-Semitism that also affects the democratic Western nations.
The realization of Yehodaya will enchant anyone for whom personal freedom, economic freedom, property rights, personal responsibility, and a minimum of governmental and authoritative intervention in the lives of citizens are principles embedded in their soul.
The State of Israel is the realization of the Jewish people’s dreams after 1800 years of exile and persecution. Irreplaceable, Israel stands as the crown jewel to which Jews everywhere lift their eyes. Today the nation state of the Jewish people, is a safe haven for Jews wherever they may be.
This document is intended for all the Jewish people throughout the world. It outlines an actionable plan for establishing a new state that can offer an alternative: a home with a Jewish but not nationalistic identity for Jews who, for whatever reason, choose not to live in Israel.
Why do we need another state with a Jewish identity?
For me, as a person of faith but not religiously observant, the State of Israel is tantamount to a miracle. Starting with a small group of tens of thousands of immigrants in the late nineteenth century, Israel advanced to establish a state in the middle of the twentieth century, continued with victory in the War of Independence, coped with wars of survival against its neighbors in its first decades, and culminated with the status of a regional power in the first quarter of the twenty-first century.
By the close of 2022, Israel was a wealthy, prosperous state enjoying measurable global influence. With its gross national product surpassing $500 billion, its per capita GDP crossed the impressive $56,000 mark. Its population of nearly 10 million people included 7.5 million Jews.
Today, Israel is a world power in weaponry and high tech and is positioned on the cutting edge of agritech, medical development, water recycling and desalination, food tech, and artificial intelligence. Israel is a member of the esteemed outer-space club and, according to foreign publications, has significant nuclear capability.
As the year 2022 ended, Israel’s fortunes around the world were at their peak. The country was flourishing economically, attracting investments and immigration, and experiencing continued demographic growth. However, 2023, Israel’s seventh-fifth year, has become one marked by painful changes for the country and for Diaspora Jewry.
The first nine months of 2023 were characterized by the intensification of divisive forces in Israeli society, escalating into overt schism, social disintegration, and even a risk of fraternal war. These processes began emerging with the introduction of the government-initiated judicial reform/upheaval and continued with exacerbation of schisms in the country’s basic social determinants.
The horrific massacre in the Gaza periphery towns and villages, carried out by Palestinian Arabs on October 7, 2023, the mass kidnap of Israeli children, women and men into the Gaza strip and the war that followed led to a sharp realization among the public that the enemy does not differentiate among different kinds of Jews. This insight, combined with the shock that the events occasioned, fear of possible events to come, and the massive mobilization for the war effort powerfully reunited the nation.
While the war that began on October 7 revealed the noble-mindedness, the spirit of self-sacrifice, the willingness to give, and the mutual responsibility of most Israeli citizens, it also brought into stronger focus the weakness of the political and defense institutions and the need to reconsider and overhaul the country’s governing systems in order to enable Israel to heal its social wounds more easily and move forward in the future in safety and prosperity.
It is still too early to know the long-term consequences of the events of 2023 and 2024 for Israeli society, its governing institutions, its defense, economy, education, and healthcare, its citizens’ responsibility for each other, and its path in the decades to come. The tragic events that came to define 2023, and are continuing as of this writing, may create a lever for positive change that will strengthen the country and safeguard it for its citizens and for the Jewish people at large. One hopes that such is the case.
Contemplating the rest of world, one sees that the black day of October 7 and the war that followed unleashed a violent global wave of antisemitism, its intensity especially strong in countries with large Arab and Muslim migrant populations—foremost are certain countries in Western, Central and Northern Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The demographic and social changes underway in these countries also raise questions about the quality of their future relations with Israel in the next ten, twenty, and thirty years, and about the significance of a possible deterioration in economic, defense, and political relations.
The reality of life amid increasingly severe, overt, and “normalized” manifestations of antisemitism in Western countries directly affects Diaspora Jews, exacerbates the risks they face, and poses questions about the coming generations’ ability to live safely outside Israel, lead overtly Jewish lives, and continue to thrive.
Unless the situation changes for the better, it is possible that a significant portion of Jews in these countries will seek alternatives. Israel is the first and the most natural of these options, but experience shows that not all will choose it.
For Jews who choose not to immigrate to Israel and for Israelis who choose to relocate to some other country, the possibility of establishing a new state becomes increasingly important. Such a state, one imbued with Jewish identity, will address three main issues:
Yehodaya is a state with a Jewish identity characterized by:
The Founding Council of Yehodaya
Before Yehodaya makes the transition from vision to reality, it will need a founding team drawing on experts in several main disciplines in order to translate this general program into a specific one.
The Team Should Include the Following:
Physical Location
The territory of Yehodaya—this unpromised land—will need to be purchased from an existing state that is interested in selling such land. The countries in question have spacious land reserves, sparse populations, and developing economies.
Such a state stands to gain in two ways—receiving a sizable sum of money in the present and enjoying cooperation and development in the future.
The idea is to situate Yehodaya in a place as far as possible from Israel and the Middle East, with preference for a location that has an outlet to the sea.
The territory to be acquired should be large enough to accommodate a population that may grow to several million in the future.
To accomplish such a task, it will be necessary to mobilize leading statespeople and outstanding investors around the world to promote the move and transform the vision into reality.
Establishing Yehodaya—Raising the Money
A large sum of money will be needed to establish this state—first to buy the necessary land and then to develop it to an extent that will enable modern settlement to begin. This, while setting economic and administrative processes in motion that will forge the dynamic of Yehodaya and mobilize the wheels of its economic and social momentum.
A realistic possibility of attaining this is by establishing a dedicated fund (or a consortium, or some other financial structure) to raise the requisite sums. Jewish investors who identify with the goals, mission, and direction of Yehodaya might contribute to such a fund; some may also agree to involve themselves in the project at higher levels.
These investors will go down in the history of Yehodaya as founding parents by whose virtue the state will exist. They may also find involvement in this project a life-changing venture that offers a real possibility of entering history as individuals who changed the path of the Jewish people as a whole.
An alternative funding model could be type of a loan. In this model, there would be an agreed-upon plan whereby the funds donated to establish Yehodaya would be repaid after the state consolidates itself. The model would also include a fair mechanism for determining when repayment would begin and at what rates.
The State of Israel and Yehodaya
The State of Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people and is recognized as such by the United Nations and the world community, which acknowledge the Jewish people’s right to a national home. One cannot overstate the importance of the State of Israel for the Jewish people and our fervent hope is that no harm will ever befall it and that it will continue to prosper, flourish, and serve as a safe haven for all Jews in the world who choose to go there.
Yehodaya is not a Jewish nation-state but state with a Jewish identity. This distinction makes it easier to separate religion from state in its Constitution and make it a welcoming home for all Jewish denominations that exist today and may exist in the future. Yehodaya does not ask the United Nations to recognize its existence and identity, just as it does not wish to participate in the institutions of other international organizations.
The purpose of Yehodaya is not to weaken Israel or harm it in any manner whatsoever. Indeed, examining the matter seriously and dispassionately, it is clear that the possibility of such harm really does not exist.
Israel is a cohesive, strong, wealthy, effervescent, interesting, and beautiful country, much loved by its inhabitants. It is at the forefront of the world’s most successful countries and has much to offer its citizens and all Jews who wish to immigrate to it.
Yehodaya is still a vision, idea, and potential. The path to its fulfillment is one of effort and coping with challenges and difficulties. For Israeli citizens and for Jews standing at the crossroads of a decision to live in a Jewish state, there is really no hesitation: Israel is the logical, convenient, and deserving choice.
In contrast, Yehodaya is the choice for the few whose belief in the path and connection with the vision is accompanied by a daring spirit.
In view of all this, it is hoped that there will be harmonious relations and cooperation between Israel and Yehodaya that will benefit both, and action should be taken to achieve this goal. At the same time, preparations should be made for the possibility of critical and antagonistic relations in the initial stages and for the possibility that the attitude toward Yehodaya will become hostile once it is successfully established.
Relations with Other Countries
Yehodaya will aspire to non-engagement and to maintaining a low international profile. Consequently, it will abstain from membership in the United Nations and will not participate in organizations run by the UN and other global organizations (such as the World Health Organization, the Economic Forum, and so on). It will also aspire to avoid becoming a protectorate of any other power and/or state.
Nonetheless, Yehodaya willaspire to enjoy cordial relations and trade and cultural relations with other countries, foremost, democracies that share similar values of liberalism.
Socioeconomic Outlook
Yehodaya’s socioeconomic outlook is a classical liberal one as found in the thinking of Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and others from this school of thought. Its perspective on taxation also corresponds with the thinking of Henry George, a nineteenth-century political economist known for his advocacy of a single, property-based tax, and James M. Buchanan, a twentieth-century Nobel Prize recipient in economics, a classical liberal economist renown for his work on public choice theory.
Yehodaya emphasizes full equality for all of its citizens, from which the following prohibitions, to be specified explicitly in its Constitution, flow:
Ban on Associations
The state is its inhabitants’ only frame of association; all other forms are prohibited (with the exception of commercial associations of limited liability corporations and partnerships, and not-for-profit associations or organizations, provided they are not used for political purposes or to advance inequality or obtain special benefits for the association over the general public).
The goal is to prevent interest groups and the powerful from associating in any manner (through political parties, labor organizations, employers’ organizations, population sectors, or any other form of association) and creating pressure in order to secure achievements (economic or other) at the expense of the unorganized general public. Any attempt to attain preferential terms, support, leniency, reallocation of resources, and so on, for any individual or group will be prohibited by the Constitution. This rule will also apply to ostensibly “positive” discrimination, such as affirmative action for a specific population group, benefits for the periphery, and so on. Equality is a supreme value and if it is preserved, even “positive” discriminatory measures such as affirmative action will be unnecessary.
Ban on Monopolies
Monopolies harm society and consumers, subvert the free market economy, and, in their essence, repress innovation, trample on competition, and, at a broader level—apart from the economic distortions they cause—create social distortion, corrupt government and society, and undermine the principle of equal opportunity for all.
Alongside the constitutional ban on monopolies (including “natural” ones), a constitutional provision will require the cessation of any monopolistic situation within a specified period of time.
This abolition of monopolies may occur in one of two ways: dissolving the monopoly into smaller units that eliminate the monopolistic status of any of them or, if this dissolution cannot be accomplished, taxing the monopoly such that all profits exceeding 10 percent before tax (while neutralizing clauses that inflate expenses, such as executives’ pay and more) will be placed in a special fund that will use its proceeds to enhance competition in the relevant industry and develop additional competitors, until the monopolistic situation is eliminated.
Shareholders in competing companies will not be allowed to hold equity in any existing monopoly. It will be the state’s responsibility to prevent the formation of “natural monopolies” (electricity, water, communication infrastructure, roads, and so on) to the extent that this is possible.
Ban on Pyramid Holdings
Pyramid holdings will be constitutionally forbidden and only two levels of holding should be permitted. In the event of second-level stake, there will be a mutual guarantee between the companies at the second level and those at the first.
Yehodaya emphasizes equal opportunity, and personal and economic freedom for all citizens. Consequently, the following will be explicitly defined in its Constitution:
Workers’ Rights
Workers’ rights in relation to employers (private sector) and the government (public servants) will be granted by virtue of Yehodaya state laws only. They will be identical among all types of workers and will be limited in scope in order to provide employees and employers economic and social flexibility.
No discrimination will be allowed between government employees and private sector employees.
Private Enterprise
Yehodaya will aspire to be a country of private enterprise and as little government as possible. It will be governed by the principle that in any matter where the private sector can provide equal and efficient service, it will do so.
The role of the government will be to ensure competition, enforce agreements, provide security and, in certain cases to be determined by law, to impose regulation and enforce quality standards.
A large share of the government services will be delivered by the private sector, with government supervision as mentioned above.
The establishment of government corporations and independent government-appointed administrative authorities will not be allowed.
Medical Services
Medical services will be provided by private entities, with an emphasis on quality, all the while viewing them as an important parameter of quality of life.
Emergency care and surgery will be based on Western medicine.
Both Western medicine and alternative care approaches will be offered for chronic illnesses and matters unrelated to emergency care or surgery.
Alternative medicine will be recognized like any other form of medicine for health insurance purposes, as will dental care.
The constitution will establish that the individual has sole control over his or her body and that coercion in medical care, including life-extending care, vaccinations, and so on, shall be prohibited. It shall also be established that discrimination against a person or infringement of his or her freedom or rights due to his or her unwillingness to be vaccinated, or to have his or her children vaccinated, or to receive medical care of any other kind, even in states of medical or other emergency, shall be prohibited.
The government’s role will be twofold: to encourage a competitive medical industry characterized by excellence in service along with reasonable insurance costs; and to provide supervision that ensures compliance with standards of the quality of care and services, as will be determined.
Health insurance
Health insurance will be provided by private insurance companies and will be compulsory regardless of the type of employment (self-employed, wage earner, and so on).
The Ministry of Welfare will be responsible for funding medical care for people whose medical and/or mental condition does not allow them to work at all and who have no other sources of income.
The government will promote a competitive health insurance industry offering a range of insurance plans and combining outstanding service with reasonable insurance costs; the government will also regulate and supervise the system so that it does not deteriorate into an expensive and inefficient insurance market.
Education
Quality education is the key to the prosperity of Yehodaya and the assurance of its future for generations to come.
Education at all levels—preschool, schools, colleges, universities—will be provided by private entities.
The purpose of the state is to promote an education system that supports every student’s personal attributes and strives for maximum fulfillment of his or her abilities and aptitudes.
A core curriculum that imparts tools for integration into a modern technology-oriented labor market and science studies will be compulsory in all tracks and programs in the Yehodaya education system, at levels adjusted to suit the various study tracks.
Studies in democracy, the Yehodaya Constitution, citizenship, liberalism, equal gender opportunity, and education in critical thinking will be compulsory in all curricula in Yehodaya.
Physical education will be compulsory and will take place at the beginning of every school day.
Studies of Bible and history will be part of the curriculum, at levels adjusted to suit the various study tracks.
Alongside academic and technical tracks, there will also be vocational tracks and other tracks in the humanities and the arts.
Parents will be entitled to receive a fixed amount of funding from the state for each child in the education system and will be able to choose the schools that they consider appropriate for their children, according to their best judgment and their children’s aptitudes.
Parents may choose to add money to the tuition fees and apply to schools that, in their opinion, will impart supplemental values that they consider preferable for their children or additional features beyond the educational standard that the state has specified.
The state’s financial contribution will be transferred directly to the school the child attends and not to the parents.
It is the state’s responsibility to regulate and inspect schools for compliance with quality standards that will be established.
Security
Internal security (police, home front, firefighting, and prisons) and external security (military and special forces) are services delivered exclusively by the state.
The establishment of private security systems (police, military, or other) is prohibited.
In addition to the standing army and the police forces, there will be compulsory service for all citizens and residents above a specified age, its duration to be set in accordance with the particular needs, security challenges, and number of citizens and permanent residents in the country.
Alongside military service, there will be a system of civilian defense service developed along the lines of the multidimensional service model proposed by the Israeli journalist, former policitcian, and policy analyst Ofer Shelah, with the army enjoying first right to choose among all candidates.
The Constitution will forbid any exemption from service for whatever reason—sectoral grounds, conscientious objection, personal or group affiliation, or other reasons (excluding exemption due to a permanent physical or mental medical condition).
Compulsory consciption will be universal and equal for all, regardless of race, religion, sex, or creed.
Any person who refuses to contribute his or her share to the defense effort will forfeit their citizenship rights. They may also face additional sanctions, in that those who fail to meet their obligations to the state will not be entitled to the state benefits.
Welfare
Yehodaya will not be not a welfare state. Consequently, its welfare services will be minimal and even then, will be available only for the weakest members of society who are unable to work at all and have no other source of income and therefore cannot support themselves.
The criteria for receiving care from the welfare system must be objective, such as a physical or mental illness or severe disability that prevent any possibility of working.
The welfare system will operate as a support mechanism that provides service by means of tools such as ration cards, funding of medical care, some housing assistance, and so on.
As a rule, no direct financial support will be given and a mechanism will be designed that allows only the supported person to use the support, ruling out the possibility of trafficking in benefits.
Direct financial aid will be considered in cases in which those in need organize privately to help themselves and make a commitment to the process (for example, indigent tenants providing regular maintenance of the public housing in which they live).
Every form of support will be contingent on income and earning capacity tests and no support will be given to those who can work but prefer not to do so for whatever reason.
No subsidies for goods will be allowed and no goods will be defined as basic essential goods and will be subject to price controls.
Fair price levels will be ensured through free competition and a prohibition on monopolies.
People who find themselves in situations of long-term joblessness (for example, due to the elimination of their occupational field or a major cutback in it due to technological development, and so on) will be entitled to occupational studies and/or training in alternative fields, funded by the state’s welfare system.
The Ministry of Welfare will be evaluated by its ability to move people from dependence on the welfare services to lives of labor and economic independence.
Research
Alongside welfare, resources will be allocated to specific areas of research that offer value for the public at large or those in which the state has special interest and for which the private sector has no response. These resources will be limited and their level will be determined by law by the Sanhedrin.
It should be emphasized that any topic other than pure science will not be recognized as a field of research.
Relations of Religion and State
In Yehodaya, strict separation of religion and state will be maintained and enshrined in the Constitution.
Everything said on this subject applies to every religion and not only to Jewish denominations.
The state will not participate, in any manner, in funding religious initiatives, religious rituals, construction of synagogues or ritual baths (or institutions of other religions of any kind whatsoever).
The state will neither participate in nor subsidize Torah studies, religious rituals, or any other matter or initiative associated with religion, including construction of religious structures or allocation of land for them and for religious services (including those of other faiths).
Similarly, the central and municipal / local authorities will be obligated to tax religious institutions as they would any other entity.
It will not be possible to include religious or faith-based matters in subjects for welfare, research, or any other field that the state may subsidize by virtue of law.
It should be emphasized that Yehodaya is not an anti-religious state. Furthermore, it is a state in which Jewish identity is central and one that predicates its Basic Laws on the interpersonal laws of the written Torah.
Those who choose to live in Yehodaya will choose to live their lives as Jews in a country with a Jewish, democratic, and liberal identity.
Nonetheless, the socioeconomic framework, state institutions, and all administrative settings that enable the state to operate and function properly will be civil frameworks, totally separate from religion and all its complexions and currents.
In addition, and in accordance with the principle of equality, it will be forbidden for the state to take a stance on, or establish a preference for, any religious stream in Yehodaya. Yehodaya will maintain full freedom of religion and worship and assure the right of all individuals to live in accordance with their beliefs and with those of the Jewish (or other) stream to which they belong, provided that these cause no offense to others’ faith, rights, and/or ways of life.
It is immaterial whether an individual is ultra-Orthodox, Hasidic, National-Religious, Conservative, Reform, Karaite, secular-Jewish, or any other movement that may develop in the present or the future, provided that the principles of equality, mutual respect, and the same rights and obligations for all are upheld. No denomination and no individual prevails over others and all discrimination—for or against—is prohibited by the Constitution.
Currency
The currency of Yehodaya will be a virtual currency based on blockchain technology (or another adequately secured mechanism).
The proposed name of the currency is the “Yehodaya shekel,” abbreviated YS.
Neither physical coins nor banknotes will be produced.
The YS will be a tradable currency and will not be managed by a central bank or any other entity.
Central Bank, Regulation of Money Supply, and Control of Inflation
Yehodaya will have neither a central bank nor any other institution that functions in a similar manner.
Responsibility for determining the money supply will be handled by an automatic mechanism that puts additional currency into circulation in accordance with parameters to be determined in advance by a committee of experts (for example, changes in population size, economic growth, crises, and so on).
These parameters will be reviewed periodically, but any revision of them will require approval in two stages: (1) by the commitee of experts, and (2) by a public referendum.
Money will be added to circulation by direct transfer to citizens on the basis of an egalitarian distribution formula.
Neither economic activity nor the money supply will be regulated for the purpose of controlling the exchange rate or inflation.
An Economy not Based on Debt
Government debt is forbidden. No government debt will be permitted and in the event that such debt is amassed, even if due to special circumstances or those beyond the government’s control, it will be eliminated by raising taxes.
The money supply will be controlled by means of an automatic mechanism, as explained in the previous section, and currency will be distributed directly to citizens in equal sums.
No injection of money by means of the government or commercial banks will be allowed.
No reserve ratios for commercial banks will be allowed.
Commercial banks will be allowed to give loans from their equity only. They may accrue additional revenues by charging fees for account management fees and other investment and management services they initiate within the framework of a free and competitive market.
Taxes, Tariffs, and Debt
Land Tax
Yehodaya will adopt a tax policy that relies, as far as possible, on the ideas and teachings of Henry George—a policy that taxes land value (including, for this purpose, all natural resources: the land itself, water, territorial waters, airspace, and outer space).
The payment for the land value (as broadly defined above) will be made on a quarterly basis.
Land value will be determined once every six years on the basis of the average of two appraisals: one by a government adjuster and another by a private adjuster appointed by those using the land.
If the difference between the adjusters’ appraisals is smaller than or equal to 10 percent, land value will be set at the average of the two appraisals. If the gap is greater than 10 percent, a third, independent adjuster who has no interest in either of the sides, will be appointed, and his or her determination will be accepted provided that it is in the range between the two previous appraisals.
Land value does not include what is attached to the land and what was not built by the state (buildings, infrastructure, and anything else that the user of the property has established on their own).
Land (in its broad sense) will be state owned. No purchase of land (in its broad sense) by private individuals, institutions, foreign countries, or any other element will be permitted.
Personal Income Tax
Personal income tax will be set at a flat rate of 18 percent of income that may not be raised or lowered for any reason whatsoever. This will be enshrined in the Constitution.
Income tax will be collected on any sum of income (from any source) that exceeds a minimum income level that will be defined in terms of a fixed rate of national median earnings (for example, total earnings below two-thirds of the median wage). This ratio will be permanent and enshrined in the Constitution.
The rate established will not be subject to change by the authorities. As with any other constitutional provision, a public referendum will be needed to change it.
The tax will be personal and every adult person will be required to submit an annual tax return.
Individuals will not be allowed to deduct expenses, with the exception of contributions to pension funds (on which taxes will be paid at the time of distribtution). All income will be taxed at net value, at the time of actual realization, with a deduction for inflation. The income tax rate will be constant for all types of income (labor, capital gains, leasing of properties, and so on).
Personal deductions of any kind of expense will not be allowed.
Alongside the income tax, a negative income tax will be introduced for those who work but fail to reach the minimum income level, as described above, in terms of total income (from all sources). The rate of compensation for the difference between the minimum income and the actual income will be established by law. Suppose, for example, that the rate of compensation is 65 percent of the difference and the minimum earning is set at YS 10,000. If the total income of a given individual is YS 6,000, the difference between this and the minimum earning is YS 4,000. There, the negative income tax to be paid to the individual is YS 2,600, bringing his or her income to YS 8,600.
It should be emphasized that the negative income tax will be applied in full only for those who work full-time. In the case of part-time workers, it will be pro-rated to reflect the percentage of a full-time position that the person worked. For those who do not work, no negative income tax will be paid at all and the person will be referred to the welfare authorities for treatment.
The negative income tax mechanism will be automatic and activated by the tax system (and not by the welfare system).
Corporate Income Tax
Corporate income tax will be set at a flat rate of 18 percent that may not be raised or lowered for any reason whatsoever; this will be enshrined in the Constitution.
If a company finds a way to avoid the tax in full or in part, its EBITDA will be imputed to its shareholders and they will have to make up the tax payment arising from it (the portion that the company saved) as a personal tax.
Diverting the company’s profits to donations, investment, or any other avenue of activity will not prevent the payment of said tax by the shareholders.
A limited liability company is required to pay tax based on its status as a legal entity separate from its shareholders. This tax is the price of the separation and protection that this entity provides to its shareholders vis-à-vis employees, suppliers, creditors, and authorities. This provision also applies to any association that provides substantially similar protection.
Investors and entrepreneurs will not be liable for corporate tax if the business is defined in a way that does not separate them from responsibility for it. This can be a partnership, an independent trader, or any business entity as defined by law, such as a company that is not a limited liability company.
Value Added Tax
A value added tax will be set at a flat 18 percent rate on all types of final goods and services (the kind not used in the production process) and said rate will not be raised nor lowered for any reason whatsoever.
This will be enshrined in the Constitution.
Value Added Tax will not apply to exports of goods and services.
Special Taxes
Special taxes will be imposed on the entire public on an equal basis in any situation that causes a budget overrun due to the occurrence of dramatic events beyond the government’s control, such as natural disaster, war, or a massive economic event that has international effects (for example, collapse of important markets abroad), and for no other reason.
A government that overruns the budget for reasons other those described above, at a rate that exceeds 18 percent of the planned budget, will be required by the Sanhedrin to resign.
Any budget overrun will be covered by government surpluses from previous years, if any. If none exist, the sum of the overrun will be offset from the next year’s budget. If the year in question is the last year of the government’s term of office, all members of the government, including the President, who were in office in the course of the fiscal year or in part thereof, will not be permitted to accept posts in the public sector for a period of six years from the end of the term.
If the government wishes to finance large projects that cannot be funded from current taxes, it will conduct a public referendum in which it explains to the public the utility of the project compared to the cost of the special tax that the public will have to pay, as well as how long the taxation will apply. It will also explain that if the project overruns its budget, the tax will be extended until all expenses relating to the project are covered. If the project comes in under the budget, the term of taxation will be shortened commensurably.
Only a project approved in a public refereendum, including the tax derived from it, is an approved project that can then be carried out.
These matters will be addressed in the Constitution.
Protective Taxes, Tariffs, and Subsidies
Trade in Yehodaya will be free of tax and tariffs.
Protective taxes, tariffs, and subsidies will not be permitted in any way or form whatsoever.
Yehodaya will be based on a free market economy and will need to find its areas of excellence and added value.
Social Insurance
No social insurance institution, or any other institution similar to it in substance or in content, will be established.
The state will not assume liability for matters such as those dealt with in Israel by the National Insurance Institute (or by similar institutions like in other countries).
It is the responsibility of each person to obtain adequate personal insurance to insure him or herself and to set aside money for retirement.
Minimum Wage
No minimum wage will be set. Market forces will determine a fair wage.
However, a minimum income will be set that will create entitlement to a negative income tax, as explained in the personal income tax section. It will be calculated as a fixed rate of median earning (for example, total earning below two-thirds of the median wage). This ratio, to be set in advance, will be permanent and enshrined in the Constitution.
The ratio established will not be subject to any revision by the authorities. To change it, as with any other constitutional change, a public referendum will be needed.
It is the state’s responsibility to create a competitive environment that will facilitate economic growth and provide a fair wage that will sustain a decent standard of living.
Pension
Every citizen and resident of Yehodaya will make their own pension provisions. This principle will be enshrined in law.
Pension management will be undertaken by private entities. It will be the state’s responsibility to regulate and supervise these entities.
The sustainability of pension funds as they exist today cannot be maintained; that is, funds in which current contributors finance the pensions of former contributors, and in turn, are reliant on future contributors to secure their own pensions upon retirement. Each contributor should make deposits into an individualized fund designated solely for their future benefit.
Nonprofit Associations
Nonprofit associations will be liable to tax like any other entity, but donations to them will be recognized as expenses to the donator.
Municipal and Regional Authorities
Municipal and regional authorities will fund their activities from property tax only.
Every municipal and regional authority may determine the level of property tax to be paid within its boundaries, through a referendum among its residents.
Public state funds may not be used to fund municipal and local authority activity.
The responsibilities of municipal and local authorities will be defined by law and the government will not interfere in them.
In general, Yehodaya aspires to pass legislation that will expand the responsibilities of the municipal and regional authorities in order to prevent the formation of an excessively strong central government, among other things.
Agriculture
Agriculture in Yehodaya will be organic or based on permaculture or hydroponic agriculture.
Conventional agricultureת that is based on use of conventional fertilizers and pesticides will be prohibited.
Use of genetically engineered seeds will be prohibited.
Raising livestock under conditions that are not suitable and/or do not satisfy the conditions of organic growth and free range will be prohibited.
Yehodaya aspires to rapidly attain food security by means of local agriculture.
Regarding permaculture, there is an opportunity to develop robots/machines that are capable of working in fields that are not based on one crop (mono-agriculture). In addition, organic agriculture and permaculture offer an opportunity to develop fertilizers and pesticides that meet their respective standards.
Technology
Yehodaya has the opportunity to establish itself as a fully technology-oriented state. This means that it will make extensive use of technologies, including AI and development of smart machines.
All public and governmental services will be delivered online.
Transportation
Yehodaya’s guiding principle is the use of public transportation and serious limitation of the possibility of using private vehicles in the urban sphere. To fulfill this vision, it is necessary to establish an efficient, reliable, and rapid mass transit system in advance.
It is preferred that private vehicles park in organized parking facilities on the urban perimeter, within which, in addition to public transport and emergency vehicles, functional vehicles (such as those of repair / maintenance professionals) will be permitted to circulate.
Energy
The type of renewable and nuclear energy used should be suitable for the physical location. The guiding rule is that Yehodaya will derive all of its energy from renewable and nuclear sources and enjoy energy independence.
In practical terms, this may, in the first phase, require the adjustment and prioritization of allocation of energy in accordance with general needs, along with continual improvements in producing renewable energy and increasing its quantity.
Transparency of Information, Licensure, and Occupational Certification
The state will not engage in occupational certification licensing and will not permit other entities to do so (such as a bureau of CPAs, a bar association, or any other occupational guild that would be prohibited in any event due to its status as a monopolistic association).
The state will not make the practice of an occupation contingent upon licensing.
The institutions that train occupational practitioners will be required to issue certifications that include relevant information, such as certification of fitness, compliance with occupational and scholastic requirements, academic degree, professional credentialing, and so on.
The information provided by the training institutions will also include grades and additional data as will be specified in law.
This information will be free and accessible to the public by means of a dedicated public information system.
In specific fields where occupational trust and/or skills are needed (such as medicine), the employing institutions will provide patients with full information about the doctor who is assigned to treat them, as well as statistical evidence of his or her success in applying similar treatments.
It is the state’s responsibility state to regulate this field and to ensure that the training institutions provide reliable information. (The foregoing does not pertain to drivers’ licenses, pilots’ licenses, and marine licenses, which are issued by the state.)
Citizenship and Residency
Yehodaya is open to all Jew who choose to lead their lives there and to all those who wish to link their fate with the Jewish people and undergo conversion.
Jews are automatically eligible for candidacy for citizenship. Citizenship is given to those who pass tests established by law (and who, at the very least, demonstrate reasonable proficiency in Hebrew and knowledge of the history of the state, and make a pledge of allegiance to the state and its Constitution).
Members of other faiths may live in Yehodaya with the status of permanent or temporary residents as the case may be, and may apply for citizenship in special cases, as will be determined in law. If the application is approved, they will have to pass the same tests as any other candidate for citizenship (at the very least, reasonable proficiency in Hebrew, knowledge of the history of the state, and a pledge of allegiance to the state and its Constitution).
Permanent residents will have all the rights and obligations of citizens with the exception of the right to vote and to be elected to public office.
Temporary residents will have obligations and rights that will be specified in the law.
Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform conversions will be recognized as proof of Jewishness.
Karaite Jews are recognized as Jews; thus, any Karaite conversion will also be recognized.
The number of non-Jewish permanent residents will be limited to a maximum of 6 percent of citizens of the state.
The number of non-Jewish temporary residents will be limited to a maximum of 6 percent of citizens of the state.
The Principle of Residency
The following definitions are based, in part and with appropriate modifications, on the Gavison-Medan Covenant, an important independent public proposal addressing the relationship between religion and the state in Israel.
At the constitutional level, it will be determined that:
Any member of the Jewish people is entitled to immigrate to the State of Yehodaya.
A “member of the Jewish people” is:
It is clarified that:
Obtaining Citizenship
The following definitions are based, in part and with appropriate modifications, on the Gavison-Medan Covenant.
Automatic eligibility for Yehodaya citizenship is available to Jews only (including converts); they may affiliate with any denomination of Judaism, including Jewish secularism, and receive their citizenship for reason of birth or of residency.
Only a citizen who was also a resident may impart birth citizenship to his or her children.
Those eligible for immigration for reason of residency will receive the status of temporary resident of Yehodaya. After six years of residency, such individuals are eligible for naturalization after pledging allegiance to the state and after displaying adequate proficiency in Hebrew and adequate knowledge of the history of the Jewish people and of Yehodaya and its institutions. Such individuals will not have to relinquish their previous citizenship. Immigrants who undertake full compulsory service in the security forces will be immediately exempt from the waiting period. Persons who are eligible for immigration and do not undergo nationalization may apply for recognition as permanent residents; their applications will be rejected only under special circumstances.
Members of nuclear families—spouses and minor children—of persons eligible to immigrate under the Law of Return (members of the Jewish people) will, like them, be eligible for an entry and residency permit in Yehodaya. When immigrants are naturalized, their spouses and minor children will also receive citizenship at the time of their naturalization if they meet the requirements of the naturalization law.
Only those who immigrate to Yehodaya—namely, who reach it from abroad for immigration purposes—are eligible for naturalization in Yehodaya by force of the Law of Return and may confer rights to family members who immigrate with them.
There will be special arrangements for naturalization in the context of family unification:
Registrationas a Jew and Conversion
The following definitions are based, in part and with appropriate modifications, on the Gavison-Medan Covenant.
It is stated explicitly that registration as a Jew is based on the registree’s declaration, which is grounded in provable facts. Registration per se does not constitute evidence of the verity of its contents.
The registry of residents will include a reference to the individual’s religion.
Those who apply to be registered as Jews by religion will confirm the basis of their Jewishness by choosing one of the following: offspring of a Jewish mother, offspring of a Jewish father, or convert. If convert is specified, the date of the conversion, its place, and the identity of the conversion court must be noted in the register.
A conversion ceremony performed by any entity other than a rabbinical court acting on behalf of the convert’s Jewish community at the time of the conversion will not be recognized.
Yehodaya will establish a government conversion institute that is authorized to perform conversions in accordance with the rules of Conservative Judaism.
Conversions by other recognized Jewish denominations may take place in communities in Yehodaya or elsewhere.
Details in the registry that are associated with the registree’s personal status will be open for viewing by marriage registrars and any other person whom the registree authorizes in writing. The accepted rules of access to information will apply to other parties.
Personal Status—Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage
The following definitions are based, in part, and with appropriate modifications, on the Gavison-Medan Covenant.
The Consitution will affirm that every person has the right to establish a family, with the specifics to be determined by law.
Only those who receive a marriage license from the state may marry. Said license will be given to unmarried persons, including LGBT, who have reached an age established by law and among whom there is no forbidden kinship.
A person will be considered unmarried only if he or she is so considered under civil law.
When receiving a marriage license, the couple will receive details about the provisions of the law concerning obligations and rights in marriage and the options available to them regarding the marriage ceremony and marriage laws.
Recipients of a marriage license can choose the officiant and type of ceremony they want. The state will grant permission to solemnize a marriage to a qualified civil registration official and to those authorized to officiate at a wedding under the rules of thier communities.
The state will recognize marriages performed abroad unless they are in conflict with the conditions listed above.
Decisions concerning marriage, including decisions about the validity or incidence of a marriage, will be made in a state Family Affairs Court according to the laws of Yehodaya.
Dissolution of marriage will take place in a Family Affairs Court.
Any document establishing the dissolution of a marriage will expressly and clearly refer to the foregoing provisions.
An individual’s ID card will include personal status along with a reference to the registry.
The registry will record the nature of the wedding ceremony or the dissolution of the marriage, the identity of the person who performed it, and its date and location.
The details of registration will be determined by regulation. For example: Personal status: married. Record produced by: registry official or Rabbi [insert name], representing a specified religious stream.
The registration details will be adjusted to reflect the needs of the various religions and streams, in accordance with the request of their representatives.
The state will not participate in funding religious institutions for the purpose of establishing and dissolving marriages and religious courts are forbidden in Yehodaya.
Child custody questions will be adjudicated by the Family Affairs Court according to the principle of the child’s best interests.
All courts will be committed to the principle of gender equality.
The rights of unmarried persons who cohabit will be regulated through special contracts and arrangements.
The Sabbath
The following definitions are based, in part, and with appropriate modifications, on the Gavison-Medan Covenant.
The Sabbath (from Friday to Saturday night) will be designated as the official day of rest of Yehodaya at the level of the constitution.
Government offices, schools, factories, banks, services, and commercial institutions will be closed on the Sabbath.
This prohibition will apply to urban areas as well as any other form of settlement and on main roads.
Essential enterprises, hospitals, and vital services will operate according to a Sabbath schedule.
It is a worker’s right to desist from labor on the Sabbath. It is the right of a non-Jewish worker to desist from labor on his or her religious day of rest. Discrimination against a Sabbath-observant worker in hiring and promotion is prohibited.
Workplaces that operate on the Sabbath will employ people on the Sabbath on a rotational basis.
Restaurants and places of leisure will be allowed to operate on the Sabbath, with consideration given to the setting of the location and to an appropriate noise level. Convenience stores in urban supermarkets, fuel stations, and pharmacies will be allowed to operate on the Sabbath.
Restaurants, museums, and other places of leisure that are open on the Sabbath will desist from operation on some other day of the week. The details of these arrangements will be established and defined by a committee authorized by the local authority.
Transport routes will remain open all hours of the day and all days of the week.
In localities or neighborhoods where a large majority of residents are Sabbath observant, or in other places where limiting traffic for a certain time is important, transport routes may be closed during all or part of the Sabbath according to an authorized decision by the local authority.
Local and public authorities may take measures to limit the extent of vehicular traffic on the Sabbath in certain places. Transportion arteries will not be shut down on grounds of Sabbath observance.
Public transport will be permitted on the Sabbath in order to enable those who need to travel to do so.
Commercial institutions that want to do so may operate on Saturday night and prolong their hours of activity during the week.
Steps will be taken to facilitate leisure activity on the Sabbath, such as visiting museums, visiting national parks, or participating in events, in a way that will minimize desecration of the Sabbath, such as options for purchasing tickets in advance.
The entire economy will operate according to a five-day work week format so that joint social, family, sports, and cultural activity may take place outside the Sabbath day, due to its special nature.
An essential worker who works in the Sabbath will not be required to work on the other general day of rest as well.
When abroad, official state representatives will not conduct official diplomatic activity on the Sabbath and Jewish festivals and will not desecrate the Sabbath publicly in the course of their official activity.
Kashrut (“Keeping Kosher”)
The following definitions are based, in part, and with appropriate modifications, on the Gavison-Medan Covenant.
Kashrut fraud will be defined as a grave offense.
Public kitchens that also serve the Jewish sector—such as those in the army, schools, government offices, and hospitals—will “keep kosher.”
A public authority for kashrut licensing will be established. Its members will be appointed on the basis of professional and administrative considerations.
The public Kashrut authority will designate which food and its components are permissible for consumption under the guidelines of the written Torah.
No enterprise or institution may be given kashrut certification by any party other than the authority or an entity that it authorizes. An authorized entity may be the kind that provides kashrut services for other streams, such as the Badatz.
The kashrut authority may not allow extraneous considerations to enter into the kashrut certification or inspection of any entity that provides food to its customers, such as withholding kashrut certification for reason of holding Reform weddings in the same hall, and so on.
Burial
Burial services will be provided by private entities, and individuals may choose the manner and location of their burial.
The state will allocate land for cemeteries.
The state will participate in a fixed sum that suffices for a basic burial as specified in the law, and said payment will be forwarded directly to the entity that conducts the burial ceremony.
The family may add to this sum as it sees fit.
The state will provide regulation and supervision in order to prevent price gouging for basic services and will set a quality standard for the level of service required.
Guidelines for the Structure of Governance
The People—The Sovereign
Sovereignty will rest with the people and the people’s participation in government will be expressed in the following ways:
Institutions of State and Method of Governance
Yehodaya is a liberal democratic state that has a Jewish identity and places a liberal constitution at the top its legal hierarchy. The second legal echelon comprises the Basic Laws of the state, which are based on a liberal interpretation of the ethical/ interpersonal laws of the written Torah only. (It should be emphasized that Torah laws that are in conflict with the Constitution by not lending themselves to liberal interpretation will not be included in the laws of the state.)
The Method of Governance Will be Based on the Following Institutions:
The Legislative Branch: The Sanhedrin
The Sanhedrin is the legislative authority in Yehodaya and has thirty-six (36) members, 50% of whom will be women.
Its main duties include:
It should be clarified that party frameworks may not be established. The choice of a candidate represents a personal choice for a particular individual and what he or she represents.
The Executive Branch: President, Vice President, and Government
The President
Vice President
The Essence of the Presidency
The Presidency is an executive body and, within this framework, the President is empowered to make temporary regulations. It is also within the power of the elected President to cancel or replace regulations made by an outgoing president provided such action does not impair the management of state affairs and the public order.
It is not within the President’s power to revise, alter, or cancel projects approved and budgeted by a previous president and in progress.
The Sanhedrin has the right to cancel executive regulations if they clash with law of the land.
The Constitutional Council has the right to invalidate executive regulations that clash with laws, Basic Laws, or the Constitution.
Government ministers are professional executive functionaries appointed by the President and not elected by the people.
It is the President’s duty to appoint suitable and qualified professionals to be ministers, who will be leading government ministries.
The appointment of ministers without portfolio will not be permitted.
Only experienced and respected professionals in their respective fields, with proven executive abilities in these fields and no conflicts of interest, may be appointed as ministers.
The appointment to a ministerial portfolio or any other senior function of a person whose professional qualifications do not meet the specific credentials for the position may be disqualified by the Sanhedrin.
The President has the right to appeal the disqualification of a ministerial appointment to the Supreme Court.
Government Ministries
Government ministries will be divided into two types:
A minister will be appointed by the president to every government ministry and will set policy during his or her term in office.
Government ministries will be staffed by professionals who are headed by the ministry director general.
These staff members are civil servants and, with the exception of the director general, will not be appointed by the minister.
Type I Government Ministries
Finance
Justice
Foreign affairs
Interior affairs
Welfare
Environment
External security (military and special forces)
Internal security (police, homeland security, firefighting, prisons)
Type 2 Government Ministries
Education
Health
Infrastructure
Innovation, technology, and science
Budget and Annual Work Plan
The President must submit an annual detailed budget and a work plan at a more general level for two years going forward to the Sanhedrin, for its approval. The budget and work plan will include dedicated sections and measurable targets for each area of government activity. The Sanhedrin must approve the budget and the work plan before they go into effect. They will be published and made accessible to all citizens. Each year, the President will present the Sanhedrin and the nation with a summary report on planning versus performance, including a report on meeting the targets in each parameter set forth in the budget and the work plan.
The economy of Yehodaya will not be based on debt and, therefore, the government budget must be balanced in accordance with the anticipated tax revenues. Overruns are permitted only in the event of a state of war, a natural disaster, or an international emergency beyond the government’s control.
The government may not issue bonds in order to raise debt.
A budget overrun for whatever reason (even if due to war, natural disaster, or international emergency) will be funded by imposing a special tax on citizens and residents.
Such special tax will be temporary, remaining in effect only until the debt is repaid and balance restored, and will be dedicated to their purposes only.
No increase in rates of income tax or value added tax will be permitted.
These matters will be determined and enshrined in the Constitution.
The Judiciary: The Supreme Court as it sits as Constitutional Council
The Constitutional Council will be comprised of all the justices of the Supreme Court, at least one third of whom will be women. The President of the Supreme Court will preside over the Council.
The Constitutional Council is the competent authority to interpret and safeguard the Constitution.
The Council may strike down any Basic Law, statute, enactment, or decision of the Sanhedrin or the President if it does not accord the Constitution’s terms or spirit.
No appeals can be made from any decisions of the Constitutional Council regarding the violations of the terms or spirit of the Constitution.
The Constitution supersedes any law or enactment and may be amended only by a majority of 75 percent or more in a referendum in which at least 75 percent of holders of voting rights participate.
The source of the Basic Laws may not be revised because it is the laws of the (written) Torah. However, the interpretation of these laws (under the legislative responsibility of the Sanhedrin) and their transformation into Basic Laws is subject to review by the Constitutional Council in order to ensure that this interpretation does not conflict with the Constitution and meets the conditions of liberal and egalitarian democracy.
The Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority.
The Supreme Court will have fifteen justices. Their term of service will last eighteen years, after which they must retire. In any event, they may not serve past the age of seventy.
Supreme Court justices will be chosen from among the most senior and outstanding District Court judges by an eleven-member committee comprising the President of the Supreme Court, two Supreme Court justices, the President of Yehodaya, two ministers, and five members of the Sanhedrin, who will be chosen by the Sanhedrin.
The term of service of judges in lower courts is not limited in time and their maximum retirement age is seventy.
The legal system in Yehodaya will be based on juros, like the system practiced in the USA.
Principles of the Constitution
The Constitution of Yehodaya will be drafted so as to regulate and anchor the basic principles on which the State is founded:
The ethical laws of the written Torah as the Basic Laws, who is a Jew, conversion, kashrut, human rights, separation of powers, freedom of religion, separation of religion and state, freedom of demonstration, freedom of expression, property rights, free trade, market economy, equality before the law, suffrage, and additional issues as specified in the full text of the Constitution, as determined by the Founding Council of Yehodaya.
Fundamentals of the Constitution
Sovereignty Rests with the People
Small Government
Government is a necessary evil and its involvement in people’s lives should be reduced as much as possible, and its size and powers should be limited to the minimum required—mainly in external security, internal security, enforcement of contracts, welfare, and handling specific matters that the private sector cannot and that are essential for the state.
As part of this outlook, power centers should be scattered such that a large share of responsibilities belongs to local and municipal authorities.
Equality of all Citizens and Residents before the Law
Provisions to be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council. (This law may draw upon the Israel’s Blue and White party’s proposed addition to Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Freedom)
Every citizen is equal before the law, and no individual’s personal or property rights may be infringed due to religion, race, sex, or any other similar reason.
Freedon of Expression and Freedom of Demonstration
Provisions will be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council.
This may be based on the Freedom of Expression and the Freedom to Demonstrate clause that appears in the Swedish constitution.
Human Dignity and Freedom
Provisions will be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council.
These may be based on Israel’s Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom, with appropriate modifications:
Yehodaya—A State with a Jewish identity
Provisions will be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council.
These may be based on Israel’s Nationality Law, with appropriate modifications:
Freedom of Occupation
Provisions will be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council.
These may be based on Israel’s Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom, with appropriate modifications:
Referendum
Provisions will be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council.
These may be based on Israel’s Basic Law: Referendum, with appropriate modifications:
The Sanhedrin
Provisions will be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council.
These may be based on Israel’s Basic Law: The Knesset, with appropriate modifications.
The President
Provisions will be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council. (The concepts of governance resemble those of a commercial company, with a CEO and Board of Directors.)
State Comptroller
Provisions will be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council.
These may be based on Israel’s Basic Law: The State Comptroller, with appropriate modifications.
among the duties of the State Comptroller will also be the establishment and operation of an ongoing control system over the various government offices. The means to achieve this will be by the construction of objective indicators of efficiency, productivity, quality of service, customer satisfaction, and employee satisfaction, and conducting a comparison between the performance of the government sector and that of the private sector (which will serve as a Benchmark). The results of the annual assessments will be published for the public and will concurrently be reported to the government offices and to the Sanhedrin. The responsibility of a dedicated committee of the Sanhedrin will be to follow up on the steps taken by the government to improve the parameters where necessary.
State Economy
Provisions will be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council.
These may be based on Israel’s Basic Law: The State Economy, with appropriate modifications.
The Army and Civilian Defense Service
Provisions will be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council.
These may be based on Israel’s Basic Law: The Army, with appropriate modifications:
State Lands
Provisions will be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council.
They may be based on Israel’s Basic Law: State Lands, with appropriate modifications:
The Judiciary
Provisions will be drafted by the Yehodaya Founding Council.
They may be based on Israel’s Basic Law: The Judiciary, with appropriate modifications:
Yehodaya is a state with a Jewish, liberal, and democratic identity. It will have a direct connection with Judaism, structured by integrating the ethical/interpersonal laws of the written Torah, as appropriately interpreted, into the Constitution, the spirit, and the underlying principles of the state.
To prosper, Yehodaya will adhere to its founding principles and will srive to resist any foreseeable tides and pressure toward big government or overconcentration and excessive power in the hands of government (or other governing authority), and social pressures meant to propel it toward any welfare state model, be it a socialist or aristocratic model.
Yehodaya will work to: root out manifestations of racism and hate toward those who are different; counteract the tendency to seek “miraculous” solutions from the schools of socialism, communism, fascism, Woke culture and any form of authoritarian or collectivist regime; and resist the human tendency, particularly at times of crisis, to seek a charismatic leader who “knows” exactly what has to be done and who offers simple panaceas to complicated crises.
Yehodaya will accomplish this by providing clear and unequivocal definitions in its Constitution, adhering to the principle of the rule of law, and, along with these, engaging in painstaking education in the values of democracy, free market economics, personal and social freedom, independent and critical thinking, personal responsibility, social involvement, compassion, acceptance of those who are different, equality, and the injustice of racism. To these should be added the value of studying history and Bible, and understanding the social risks that are created by populist leaders and manifestations of divisiveness, glorification of leaders, and personality cults of any kind.
Yehodaya will prosper and will become a magnet for Jews around the world who will choose to make it their home. Its driving principles of individualism, free enterprise, and personal freedom will enable its inhabitants to bring to maximum expression their talents, initiative, and personal dreams, placing all of Yehodaya on the path to success and prosperity.
This vision will be fulfilled by mobilizing public figures, investors, outstanding figures in all disciplines, and many others, and encouraging them to become engaged and contribute their resources, ideas, experience, and talent to the establishment of Yehodaya—a free state with a Jewish identity in an unpromised land, pledged to self-determination and, in its essence, a paradise in human dimensions.
If you are among these, the road to Yehodaya is open for you to join in the journey.
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