discuss why and how family policy in ISREAL has resulted in family problems within that country.

Running head : ISREAL AND THE FAMILY WAY

Isreal and The Family Way

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Israel and the Family Way

The legal system and the family bond are not related . However , laws do have an affect on human relationships . There is no better example of this than in Israel where the Jewish law is a guide for how people relate to one another . This is a country established in the ashes of apartheid . And yet the new community is just as segregated as the Jews and Germans were prior to World War

II . Israel is a land where religion is a dividing factor between country , heritage and social and the political and governmental agenda is felt throughout the community specifically within the Jewish and Arab households

Israelis have always been horrified at the idea of parallels between their country , a democracy risen from the ashes of genocide , and the racist system that ruled the old South Africa . Yet even within Israel itself , accusations persist that the web of controls affecting every aspect of Palestinian life bears a disturbing resemblance to apartheid (McGreal , 2006 ? 1

The political tension between Israel and Palastien and the policies that have resulted from those tensions has had a tremendous influence over how people within the Israeli bs conducts their daily lives . But political differences between Arabs and Jews are not the only factors that combine politics and home life . There are many family related policies which force members of the Israeli community to live their...