I support officially I shring Israel as a " Jewish State", but until there is a separation between synGogue and state in a political sense, then this is fraught with a host of potential problems for a number of constituents unless this legislation is fine tuned to make sure that the Orthodox don't use this as a Trojan horse to delegitimization Jews who don't believe in their type of Judiasm. I'm sure there will be a lot of nasty comments to this post - which will just serve to make my point.

If the leftists consider this a racist bill, then they ought to state their piece by leaving government. That'll really convince us.

I can remember racist Rhodesia (with its "kith and kin" talk) and apartheid South Africa trying to get all white people in the world to identify with them, but they never called their states "States of the White People". If anyone can decide whether Israel is the state of the Jewish people, it is ... the Jewish people. How about asking first before claiming to speak in the name of all Jews?

Including same sex couples and then we shall talk about equal rights

Polls show Livni and her disgusting new Hatnua Party will likely be voted out of political existence in the next election. Yet Bibi still allows her to destroy good patriotic legislation. This is intolerable. Livni has no place in government.

Otherwise there would be no point for its existence. BUT, who is Jewish must be defined by the government not rabbis. Many Israeli rabbis are no better than Taliban.

Netanyuo, I wrote many times that you got a "snake" in to your government, now you are about to be stung. The one that will sting you is the serial stinger, Tzipi Livni

Livni decided to accept Minister Ya'akov Peri's request to postpone the vote,

the article says; "the notion that the State of Israel is the national homeland of the Jewish people was never enshrined in the Basic Laws of the state." question: the basics laws enshrine the Jewish Sojnut & Aliyah to Israel promoted by the Israeli Goverments since the independence day. However, what is legal status of every jew living in Israel that is allow to keep his original nationality besides the Israeli that he adquires when he comes to the country?rusians are not allow to keep Rusian nationality if they become israelis...but you always find israelis "sabrim" refering for instance to Lieberman as a russian or also as a settler. A good goverment allows well reasoned critiques from other jews living in the country because thats democracy. You dont like opinions different than yours? according to free dictionary definition, thats a dictature. Israel, you decide what you want to be