Today’s religious-strife flashpoints in Israel date back to the 1920s

Evidence

Among the highly contentious legal issues in which Haredim were embroiled with the administration were real estate (the attempt by the Zionists to include all religious buildings and property in the jurisdiction of their own Chief Rabbinate); Shemitah (observance of the “Sabbatical year,” during which the agricultural land in Eretz Israel is supposed to lie fallow, and which was arduously resisted by agricultural administrators); Shehitah (ritual slaughtering and control of the meat supply); and taxation. Even in the twenty-first century, these are problems that consume Israeli politics and occasionally precipitate violent conflict, especially in Jerusalem. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 460

Categorization

• CANDY: A tidy, shareable observation: the same four issues (land, sabbatical year, kosher slaughter, taxation) still roil Israeli politics a century later.
• XREF: connects to: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s religious framing is recent rather than primordial — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 51