Now, after 50 years of the Jewish state, what does the future hold for this city?

Living in a Jewish state is, of itself, not necessarily enough for them.

But there was something else: he never took part in any discussion of the Jewish state.

Is it really possible to have both a Jewish state and a democracy?

"It can't be at the same time both democratic and a Jewish state," he said.

Defeat in any could have brought the end of the Jewish state.

These days they seem united in their contempt for the Jewish state.

But does Israel need to survive as a jewish state?

This is why they've been so supportive of the Jewish state since 1948.

Israel is the Jewish state, but its people have never quite been able to define what that means.