• DOI:10.1080/13621020802015388
• Corpus ID: 144319224

Fundamentalism's encounters with citizenship: the Haredim in Israel

@article{Stadler2008FundamentalismsEW,
  title={Fundamentalism's encounters with citizenship: the Haredim in Israel},
  author={Nurit Stadler and Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben‐Ari},
  journal={Citizenship Studies},
  year={2008},
  volume={12},
  pages={215 - 231}
}

• N. Stadler, Edna Lomsky-Feder, E. Ben‐Ari
• Published 28 April 2008
• Political Science
• Citizenship Studies

This paper centers on the challenge that fundamentalist groups – such as the Israeli ultra-Orthodox community (the Haredim) – pose for citizenship. It focuses on two issues: challenges centering on contribution to and sacrifice for the Israeli nation-state; and alternatives that fundamentalism poses to definitions of citizenship. Empirically, it is based on research in three arenas: service in the Israeli military; a voluntary organization aiding state agencies after terror attacks (ZAKA), and a charitable association offering help in health and social welfare (Yad Sarah). Two trends – challenges to concepts of security and the state, and the weakening of the state in the economic sphere and social services – have opened up spaces for fundamentalist groups to operate in civil society and complement the state. The Haredi community has gradually developed a new concept of inclusion that both fits the state-centred view of citizenship and their own fundamentalist perspective.