This unspoken, fundamental conflict runs deep as Europe banishes religion from politics and relegates anything to do with faith to the private sphere. While Europe reduces its religious history to commemorative days, Israel is compelled to do the exact opposite, drawing its identity from biblical revelation and inherited memory.
Albert Einstein recognized that science without religion limps, and religion without science remains blind. The same holds true today: politics without a spiritual compass loses its bearings. And that is precisely what ails the West, especially in its view of Israel. Anyone who tries to grasp Israeli reality without its spiritual dimension sees only surface issues—border conflicts, military operations, diplomacy. But the decisive element lies deeper.
Israel unites what the West separates: faith, history, and state. Israel lives its biblical calling in politics.
Einstein saw no contradiction between science and religion, as long as religion did not fall into dogmatism and science did not descend into cynicism. For him, true science meant discovering the order, beauty, and complexity of the universe, which led him to what he called...
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