What are the differences between Jews and Muslims in Israel?

Answer 1

Politically, Jews and Muslims in Israel have nearly all of the same rights and responsibilities. For example, all Israeli Jews and Muslims can: vote once they reach the age of maturity; own, lease, buy and sell property; freely travel and move across Israel's territory; build religious structures and worship as they choose; freely speak both as individuals in private and in the public square; demand to speak to police; demand a civil trial instead of a military tribunal for any crime for which they might be accused; organize in any political, labor, personal, or other union, provided such union has a legal purpose (as opposed to a drug gang or similar); etc.

However, since Israel is an inheritor of the Ottoman Millet System and has decided to retain such a system because it is popularly supported by most of the population (including the majorities of the minorities). The Millet System provides partially segregated systems for personal laws, education, and the military. Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs (of whom the majority are Israeli Muslims) have separate schools in order for Jews to receive instruction in Hebrew and Arabs to have instruction in Arabic. There are private schools for both Jews and Arabs, but this is the minority. The Israeli Rabbinate and Imamate individually deal with the life ceremonies of Israel's Jews and Muslims respectively, including: birth ceremonies and documentation, circumcisions, marriage ceremonies, divorce proceedings and asset allocation, and funerals. Due to the Israeli Rabbinate and the Israeli Imamate's stance against intermarriage, Jews and Muslims in Israel cannot intermarry unless they go abroad. As concerns the Israeli Defense Forces, Israeli Jews (both male and female) have mandatory conscription. Israeli Muslims are permitted to serve, but are not actively conscripted. Most Israeli Muslims who serve in the IDF are Bedouin males. Muslim women and ethnic Palestinians (both men and women) are much less common.

Answer 2

Answer 1

A Jewish view

• "Jewish" means a Jew or something relating to Jews or Judaism.
• "Israel" is the name of a country, and is also a name for the Jewish people (with its origin in Genesis ch.35).

Answer 2

A Muslim view

• Jewish man/woman is the follower of Jewish religion

• Israel is the alternative name of prophet Jacob (father of prophet Joseph). It is used as the political name of the lands controlled by the Jews from the Palestinians and declared in year 1948 AD.

Answer 3

An Israeli is a person recognized as a citizen of the state of Israel. Most are Jews, others are Christian, Muslim, Atheist, Agnostic, or anything else. Being an Israeli includes paying taxes, and mandatory military service.

A Jew is a person who is a member of the religion that believes in the truth of the written bible (first testament only) and follows the laws described in The Bible including the 10 commandments and its corollaries as well as the oral laws (later transcribed to the talmud and other volumes). A person can be Jew by being born into the faith (by having a Jewish birth mother) or by undergoing conversion to the Jewish faith. Many Jews by birth who do not participate the religious beliefs or follow their own version of the beliefs are still considered Jews.

Answer 4

Basic Differences
First of all, we are comparing apples and oranges in terms of grammar. Israel is a place, Jewish is an adjective that describes either a person or an object. To compare apples to apples, the question should be "What is the differences between Jewish and Israeli?"

Jewish/Judaism: A person is Jewish if they follow the religion of Judaism or are born to Jewish parents. Judaism is typically considered to be an ethno-religious group. It has certain elements that are common to all ethnicities, such as a common language, a common ancestry, particular customs of association, and a view of common historic nation-hood. It also has certain elements that other religions share such as a belief in divine beings and a God, specific divine mandates, houses of worship, and holy scriptures. (Other ethno-religious groups include the Druze and Yazidi.) Jewish people can be from anywhere in the world, speak any language, and dress in any local style (although some of the more religious individuals may choose to limit those possibilities). There vocal Jewish minorities who are expressly opposed to the existence of Israel, but most Jews support the State of Germany, just like most ethnic Armenians (even outside of Armenia) support the Republic of Armenia.

Israeli/Israel: Israelis are citizens of the Modern State of Israel, which was established in 1948. Like any nationality, all Israelis will carry Israeli passports, have ancestors or family who live in Israel, and will likely be somewhat aware of Israeli national culture. As Israelis are a national group, this is similar to the term "American" since a person is defined as being American by having a certain citizenship, not by race, religion, ideology, political aspirations, or creed. The term Israeli is just that. There are Jewish Israelis from as varied places as India, Ethiopia, Russia, Morocco, and the United States (among nearly 50 other nations) who form the majority of the country's population. Arab Israelis are both Christian and Muslim are a sizable minority. Additionally, there are guest-workers and refugees in Israel from Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Source of Confusion
As Israel was declared as the Jewish State, there is often conflation between Jews and Israel, but the two are distinct in the sense that not all Jews are Israelis and not all Israelis are Jews. Additionally, the will of the Israeli government should not be imputed to Israeli citizens let alone Jews who are not Israeli citizens. If I were to say to have say this about any other diasporic group, it would be seen as ridiculous, but for some reason, Jews are uniquely seen this way.

For example, there is no conflation between ethnic Chinese people (think of US Chinese) and China. Not all ethnic Chinese people are Chinese citizens and not all Chinese citizens are ethnic Chinese people . Additionally, the will of the Chinese government should not be imputed to Chinese citizens, let alone ethnic Chinese who have never lived in China.

Answer 5

Jews are an ethno-religious group meaning that they are united by genetics: they believe themselves to be a very large family, and they share a common religion: Judaism. Now it is possible for a person to convert to Judaism and thus become a Jew without having the ethnic component and it is possible for a Jew to become an Atheist, thus negating the religious component, but having one of the two attributes is sufficient to be a Jew.

Israelis are a national group, which is to say that they are a group of people who all have a certain citizenship. This is similar to the term "American" since a person is defined as being American by having a certain citizenship, not by race, religion, ideology, political aspirations, or creed. The term Israeli is just that. There are Jewish Israelis from as varied places as India, Ethiopia, Russia, Morocco, and the United States (among nearly 50 other nations) who form the majority of the country's population. Arab Israelis are both Christian and Muslim are a sizable minority. Additionally, there are guest-workers and refugees in Israel from Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.

You can be Jewish and Non-Israeli, which represents half of the Jewish World. Most Non-Israeli Jews are American Jews, but roughly 2 million Jews live in countries other than the US or Israel. Conversely, 20% of the Israeli citizenry is not Jewish and composed of numerous different ethnic and religious groups, but the majority of Israeli Non-Jews are Arab Sunni Muslims.

Answer 6

"Israeli" is a nationality. Not all Israelis are Jewish (though most are). "Jewish" is a religion. Not all Jews are Israeli.