In the State Israel formally there is no state religion (that is obligatory for citizens), but it and is not separated from the state. The status of the Jewish religion in the State Israel has not received legislative registration because of disagreements in a society of the relation of religion to the state and its role in a society.
Nevertheless, the majority of the population supports preservation in this or that form of specifically Jewish character of the Israeli statehood and a society. Experts agree in opinion that Israel, on the one hand, is not the theocratic state, but, on the other hand, it also is not the country where the religion is separated from the state; the part of researchers is inclined to see ” something like official religion” (meaning a Judaism) and a certain similarity of the official religious organisation in the name of the orthodox rabbinate. Other part, on the contrary, challenges this point of view, asserting that as the state does not oblige citizens to observe religious norms, and the ministry of affairs of religions supervises all faiths, to speak about presence in the country of official religion of the bases is not present.
The Freedom of worship In the State Israel is carried out that each citizen can to confesse any religion. (There is a point of view that the standard opinion of researchers consists that the full freedom of worship is not present as in sphere of a family law and other areas the religious right fixed in laws, accepted by the Knesseth operates). There are decisions of the Supreme court criticising separate aspects of a religious brachno-family law as he considers its these norms violating human rights.
According to the Law on the register of the population of 1965, as a witness persons were brought data on creed and a nationality; in 2006 such order has been excellent. Essential feature legal system of the state Б─■ inclusion in it of elements of the Jewish religious right, though the Israeli right in any measure not to identically religious right. When it is necessary for court to make the decision on any question, first of all decision search is conducted among state Israel laws, then among laws of the British mandate, and in next turn, Б─■ among the Jewish primary sources.
Professor M.N.Marchenko believes:” The Judaic right is frequently considered not simply as a usual component, and as a subsystem Israeli family, and also all Israeli right. And Б─■ not only and it is even not so much as integrally connected and co-operating with it, how many as rather inconsistent, and it is frequent Б─■ counteracting it and system clashing with it.”
The Aspiration of the Israeli society to the compromise comprehensible to religious and not religious circles, and also to preservation of national traditions in the state and public life of the country has found expression in the so-called status quo which has developed still before occurrence of the Jewish state: jurisdiction courts in the field of the personal status (marriages and divorces) members of the Jewish community; work prohibition on Saturday and days of religious holidays in official bodies and public institutions, on public transport, at the industrial enterprises and in service sphere; a special network of religious schools; a recognition and subsidising of religious institutions and services. Principles of Galahi have partially influenced the immigration legislation (the Law on returning see);
With the basis of the State Israel for maintenance of religious needs of the population and the control over activity of religious institutions the Ministry of affairs of religions has been created. Under jurisdiction of religious courts (Jewish, Muslim and Christian) there are acts of civil status (marriage, divorce, burial). There are also questions which can be considered religious court in consent the parties. Religious courts, however, fall under jurisdiction of Superior court of justice of Israel.
In the mid-eighties in Israel was about 450 rabbis consisting on the salary of the state, municipalities and village councils. At municipalities and п©п╬я│п╣п╩п╨п╬п╡я▀я┘ councils religious councils operate. As religious councils enters: the device, material aid rendering in establishment and the maintenance of synagogues, the control over kashrut in slaughterhouses and butcher’s shops, restaurants, hotels, etc., and also behind activity of funeral societies, etc.
According to Russian confessors a constitutional law, “while all questions connected with civil registration, are in conducting courts of religious communities, discrimination display on religious soil is inevitable. Presence of system of religious courts and absence of institute of a civil marriage promote preservation in the Israeli society various ethnic groups which full equality before the law it is almost impossible to provide.”