• Zehut's Platform and Vision for the State of Israel
    • Opening Letter
    • Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
  • Part One – Guidelines
    • Why a Platform?
      • A platform for a ruling party
      • Policy derived from principles, with a view towards realizing objectives
    • Principles
      • Liberty, Identity, and Meaning
        • Liberty
        • Identity
        • Meaning
    • Objectives
    • Policy guidelines
      • Caution and responsibility in implementation
      • Liberty
        • Government intervention in civil areas
        • In the area of sovereignty and law enforcement
        • In the Economic Sphere
      • Identity
        • A Jewish state
        • The Land of Israel is the bedrock of our identity
        • Faith in the People of Israel
        • Community – the guarantee and actualization of identity
      • Meaning
        • Universal moral leadership
        • A believing leadership
  • Part Two – The Structure of the Government and its Reduction
    • Areas Discussed
    • Reduction of Government Offices
      • The goal: limited, representative and effective government
      • The current situation and the problem of governance
      • Solution: the structure of government proposed by Zehut
      • What is gained by limited government?
      • Committed to change
      • How reduction of the government will work – Detail
        • The current distribution of ministries
        • Eliminating unnecessary ministries and re-incorporating them into necessary ministries
        • Consolidating necessary ministries
    • Opposition to Excessive Legislation
    • The Community Model
      • Returning authority to communities
      • Mutual respect rather than legislative struggles
      • The division into communities
      • Powers of the community in the community model
      • Which laws will be adopted at the community level?
    • The Judicial System: From Sovereignty of the People to the "Rule of law"– and Back
      • Democracy: The Sovereignty of the People
      • The Rise of Judicial Activism
      • Zehut's Policy: Back to Sovereignty of the People
      • The High Court of Justice
        • Disqualification of Laws by the Supreme Court
      • Not "Everything is Justiciable"
      • Appointment of Judges
      • The Attorney General
      • Appointment of Senior Public Servants
      • Criticism of the Judiciary
      • The Status of Jewish Civil Law
  • Part Three – The Social Program
    • Education
      • Responsibility of Parents
      • The Voucher System
        • What is Money Spent on Today?
        • How Would a School Look Under the Voucher System?
        • It Already Works in Israel
        • The Option of Empowering Education Networks
          • Vouchers and Networks
      • Reducing Core Requirements
      • The Course of the School Year
      • The Start of the Academic Year
      • More Professional, Less Mandatory
      • Homeschooling
      • Free is not Obligatory
    • Restoring the Status of the Family
      • Strengthening the Independence of the Family Unit
      • Parental Responsibility for Education
      • Flat Tax Structure and Independence of the Family Unit
      • The Court's Conduct During the Disintegration of the Family Unit
      • Handling complaints of domestic violence
      • Preparations for the treatment of false complaints
      • Adopting the principles of shared parental responsibility
      • Calculation of child support by a fixed and equitable formula
      • Regulation and review of court appointed social workers
      • A thorough review of the Family Courts
    • National Insurance and the Welfare System
      • Reducing the Powers of the National Insurance Institute
      • Innovation and efficiency in the welfare system
    • The War on Traffic Accidents
      • Returning the Element of Responsibility to Israeli Drivers
      • Compulsory Insurance Reform
    • Public Health
      • Background – A Sick System
      • Our Goal for Healthcare
      • The Zehut Healthcare Solution
      • Removing Restrictions on Medical Cannabis Treatment
      • Allowing export of medical cannabis
    • Communications
      • Open and Free Broadcasting for All
      • Free Press
      • Closure of Media Outlets Belonging to the State
  • Part Four – Judaism, Culture and State
    • Introduction and Guidelines: Judaism and State – Distance to Foster a Liberty-Based Meeting
      • Identity Crisis
      • Coercion: The Dam that Creates a Dead-End
      • The Concept of "Sawing" Religion from State
      • Not a state of all its Citizens
      • Individual, Community and State
      • The Opposite of the Status Quo
    • The State of Israel and its Institutions: The Obligation of State Institutions to Jewish Law
      • Israel Defense Forces
        • Lifestyle
        • Education Force and Jewish Consciousness
        • Mixed Army Units
      • Fewer Government Companies – Less Coercion
    • State Conversion and the Law of Return: Completing the Process of Ingathering the Exiles
      • National Conversion According to Jewish Law
      • Who is Entitled to Immigrate? – Update of the Law of Return
        • The Situation Today
        • The Proposed Amendment – Reducing the Gap
      • Finishing the Process of the Ingathering of the Exiles and the Return to Zion
    • Jewish Civil Law: An Identity-Based Alternative
      • The Vision
      • The Actual Situation and the Arbitration Compromise
      • Statehood-Status of the Law, and a Jewish State
      • The Problem with Integration Attempts
        • The Problem of Distortion
        • The Problem of Coercion
        • Practical Failure of Integration into Civil Law
      • The Solution: An Identity Alternative
      • Civil Law for Interested Parties
        • The Irrelevance of Jewish Law in Criminal Law
        • Complete Absence of Coercion
        • The Practical Implication – State Backing and Autonomy
      • The Revival of Judaism as a Relevant National Culture
    • Identity and independence in culture
      • The vision – an independent cultural and spiritual flowering
      • The Situation Today
      • Full cultural independence
      • Zehut's outline for funding culture
        • Closing the Ministry of Culture
        • Financing municipal culture through municipal tax
      • Culture from identity and responsibility
    • Chief Rabbinate of Israel
      • The current functions of the Chief Rabbinate
        • National Positions
        • Representative positions
        • National regulatory body
        • Head of rabbinical courts and rabbinates
      • Changing the functions of the Chief Rabbinate
        • From kashrut monopoly to standard
        • Kashrut of imports
        • Kashrut and animal cruelty
        • Registration and marriage for those interested
        • Supervision of mohels and the circumcision standard
        • Towards a state sabbatical
        • The Rabbinate's ordination system
    • Changing the structure of local rabbinates
      • Independent rabbinic courts instead of funded rabbinates
      • Rabbinic courts first
      • Financing rabbinic courts from voluntary tax
      • Electing a city rabbi
      • Neighborhood rabbis
      • Religious services in the city
    • Financing of Yeshivas and the Humanities
      • Equality, recognition of reality, striving for independence
        • The vision
        • The damage of funding
        • The analogy between yeshivas and the humanities
        • The present situation and the future
    • Termination of marriage registration
      • Marriage as a fundamental that existed before the state
      • The Situation Today
      • The boomerang of coercion
      • Termination of registration
      • So how does one get married?
      • Marriage by the Rabbinate and the Chuppah Standard
        • Marketing Chuppah-Marriages and the Chuppah Standard
      • Legal implications – according to the agreement to be signed
        • Implications for legislation
        • The sanctity of marriage in Judaism and the fear of the division of the Jewish people
        • What do we gain?
  • Part Five – The Economic Plan
    • Basic Guidelines for the Economic Plan
      • The effect of the policies on the lowest deciles
      • Lightening the burden of regulation
      • Lowering the cost of living
    • Changing the taxation system
      • Simplifying the tax structure
      • Reducing the tax burden
    • Israeli Industry and Trade
      • Reducing the corporate tax
      • The state will not try to steer the market
      • Removing regulatory and bureaucratic obstacles
    • Relief for imports
      • Eliminating tariffs and removing import restrictions
      • Reducing the power of the Israel Standards Institute
    • Budgetary responsibility and reducing the national debt
    • Transportation
      • Infrastructure problems can be solved
      • Decentralization of powers
      • Upgrading roads
      • Private vehicles and pollution
      • Reducing taxation and bureaucracy for private vehicle owners
      • Competitiveness and innovation in transport
      • Aviation
    • Housing
      • How to solve the housing crisis?
    • Zehut plan for solving the housing crisis
    • Municipal Building Reform
      • Main principles of the Municipal Building Reform
      • Transfer of planning authority from the municipality to the residents
      • The District Plan Agreement (DPA)
      • Reform in the construction process
      • The process of obtaining a building permit
      • Supervision of construction
      • Changing the use of an existing building
      • The right to object to land use
      • Redefining the roles of the state and the local authority
      • Adjustment of municipal infrastructure to new projects
      • The Authority will be responsible for public construction and infrastructure within its boundaries
      • The state will be responsible for public construction and infrastructure outside the cities
      • Taxation, levies and fees in real estate
    • Land Reform: Returning the land to the people
      • Dismantling the Israel Lands Authority
      • Reclassification of land use
      • Transfer of state land to civilian ownership
      • The dispute over handing over unjust lands in the past should not delay privatization
      • Prohibition of the sale of land to hostile elements
    • The fall in housing prices following the reforms
    • Settlement and strategic development in Judea and Samaria
      • The Heartland
      • The damage caused by treating Judea and Samaria as occupied territory
      • Land and ownership
        • Private land and private property
        • The Palestinian Authority and its laws
        • Distribution of lands by the Jordanian government
        • State lands and the establishment of settlements
      • Back to strategic planning
        • Cities and settlement
        • National infrastructures
        • Road 45 (Gush Dan – Jerusalem)
        • The Trans-Menashe Highway
        • Route 60 – the mountain road from Nazareth to Be'er Sheva
        • From Trans-Samaria to Tapuah Junction
        • Tel Aviv – Ariel Train Station
      • Cost of housing
        • Samaria as the natural reserve of real estate in Gush Dan
  • Part Six – The Freedom of the Citizen and Internal and External Security
    • Part One: Civil liberties and internal security
      • The local police chief – elected by the public
      • Cancellation of the biometric database
      • Ceasing the persecution of cannabis consumers
      • Captivity for enemies instead of administrative detention for everyone
      • Eliminating police violence
      • The attitude toward non-violent civil disobedience
      • The right to bear arms
    • Part Two: Israel's security – National Security Concept
      • Resolution and victory instead of "containment" and "rounds"
    • The IDF recruitment model
      • Towards a professional volunteer army
      • Shortening compulsory service
      • Option for early release
      • Raising the soldiers' wages
      • The gradual change
      • The attitude toward refusal conscription and conscientious service
        • The situation today
        • The moral and practical damages
        • The right to be held accountable for the choice of conscience
        • Blunting the sting by transitioning to a professional army
    • The Iranian threat
      • The danger of delegitimization of Israel's existence
      • Elimination and deterrence of enemy leaders themselves
    • American military "aid" and its price
  • Part Seven – The Diplomatic Plan: Making Israel a Jewish State
    • Background to the Diplomatic Plan
      • Introduction
      • The purpose of the Oslo Plan and its derivatives
      • When the war does not end, peace does not begin
    • The purpose of the political plan
      • Creating a political infrastructure: To realize the Jewish identity of the State of Israel
    • Principles
      • Eretz Yisrael – this is our land
      • Saving human rights
      • Human rights and civil rights
    • The approach to the question of citizenship – clarification
    • Stages of the political plan
      • A. Cancellation of the Oslo Accords
      • B. An offer to all the terrorists for a dignified withdrawal
      • C. The return of Israeli military and security control throughout the territory
      • D. Application of Israeli sovereignty
      • E. Offering options for personal choice
        • Option A – A generous migration basket for those interested in emigrating
        • Option B – status of permanent residents
        • Option C – Receiving Israeli citizenship
      • Encouraging aliyah and solving housing problems for young couples
    • Concerns about the diplomatic plan
      • American pressure
      • American aid
      • The European boycott
      • International law
      • Where will those who choose to emigrate go?
      • "Apartheid State"
    • Israel's foreign policy
    • Jerusalem – Goals and Policy
      • Jerusalem "Not apportioned among the tribes"
      • Strategic Planning
      • Greater Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Metropolis
      • Strategic Infrastructure
        • Metropolitan Ring Road
        • Internal landing strip and international airport
        • Upgrading the mountain road and the Jerusalem-Gush Dan road
        • Roads in East Jerusalem and access to the Old City
      • Government Compound
      • Hotel Accomodation for Pilgrims
      • Heart of the City – Temple Mount
      • Temple Mount policy in practice
        • The Temple Mount is "also" a holy place
        • Archeology
        • Sovereignty
  • Appendices
    • Data on the vouchers method for education
    • The purchase of the F-35 as an example
    • Israel's security since the Oslo Accords
      • The Peres Government: 4 November 1995 ‐ 29 May 1996
        • Peres implements Oslo
        • Oslo engenders suicide terrorism
        • Operation "Grapes of Wrath" and the beginning of "Rounds"
      • The first Netanyahu government: 18 June 1996 ‐ 6 July 1999
        • Netanyahu continues Oslo
        • "If they give, they'll get. If they don't give, they won't get."
        • The Western Wall Tunnels
        • The Hebron Agreement
        • Wye agreement and continued withdrawals
      • The Barak government: May 1999 ‐ February 2001
        • Negotiations on the Golan Heights
        • Flight from Lebanon
        • The Camp David talks
        • The Second Intifada
      • The first Sharon government: 7 Mar 2001 ‐ 28 January 2003
        • From "Restraint is Power" to "Defensive Shield"
        • The overthrow of the Twin Towers
        • The separation fence
      • The second Sharon government: 28 October 2003 ‐ 18 December 2005
        • The Disengagement Plan
        • Referendum of Likud members
        • The results of the disengagement
      • The Olmert government: 4 January 2006 ‐ 31 March 2009
        • The Convergence Plan and Amona
        • The elections in the PA and Hamas' takeover of Gaza
        • The Second Lebanon War
        • Attack on the Syrian reactor and Operation Cast Lead
      • The second Netanyahu government: 31 March 2009 ‐ 18 March 2013
        • The Iranian threat
        • Bar Ilan speech
        • The Shalit deal
      • The Third Netanyahu Government: 18 March 2013 ‐ 14 May 2015
        • Prisoner release gestures
        • The kidnapping of the three boys
        • Tzuk Eitan
      • The fourth Netanyahu government: 14 May 2015 ‐ today
      • Interim Summary: Returning from Oslo to identity
    • The Oslo Report: How much does the Oslo process really cost us?
      • Preface
      • Introduction
      • Explanation of calculation method
      • Components of the economic price
        • Transfer of funds to the "Palestinian Authority" created by the Oslo Accords
        • The additional cost of GSS activity in territories transferred to "Palestinians"
        • The additional cost of IDF activity
        • The additional cost of the Ministry of Internal Security, and damage to car thefts
          • Car thefts
        • Adding civilian security guards everywhere in Israel
        • Construction of the separation fence around the territories handed over to the "Palestinians"
        • The "value" of victims of hostilities
        • The fall in tourism revenues in the peak years of terrorism
        • The cost of evacuating the Jews from Gush Katif
      • Additional factors
      • Summary and conclusion