President Reuven Rivlin, in meeting with the winners of the Jewish Bar Association Prize: "For years, we have tried to define what is a democratic state, although the question of what is a 'Jewish state' is far more complicated. What role does the Judaism of the state play?
These are difficult questions, that have raised many discussions and arguments, and for which we still don't have clear answers...[They] touch on the roots and foundations of the producer that is the State of Israel, and of the present state of the Israeli renewed. For me, a Jewish state gives expresion to Jewish values in the public arena. Not as lip service, rather, as obligatory values, as values that encapsulated and protected the nation of Israel and his identity, through all these years."