Overview:

• Judaism is the state religion.

• Recognition and registration are amalgamated rather than differentiated and there exists an emphasis on the former as existential recognition rather than latter as legal registration.

• The Israeli recognition system is misused to ostracise groups that it does not recognise; any group not already recognised in Israeli law hasn’t the opportunity gain recognition through formal procedures without political involvement.

Positive elements:

• Nil.

Recommendations:

• Establish a recognition system that has sufficient provisions for both existential recognition and legal registration simultaneously and at different levels of activity.

• Remove existent abuses of the recognition system that have amounted to stagnation of recognition processes and overall caused violations of citizens' religious freedoms.