103 ESSAY GAME OF THRONES: THE ONGOING DISCOURSE ON RELIGION AND STATE IN ISRAEL (The Second Part)1 By Liana Voloch (Israel) Author Student, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Tel Aviv E-mail: linavoloch@gmail.com Abstract My main purpose in this essay is to explore a nature of the status quo agreement and examine main disputes regarding the status quo: unchained women (‘Agunot’), an exemption of the ‘Yeshiva’ students from mandatory military service; a separation of woman and man in buses; biblical prohibitions that have a direct effect on non-religious citizens, etc. <...> He analysessources of law in Israel and their evolution. <...> Then the notion of ‘Jewish and Democratic state’ is discussed. <...> The author thinks that a democratic liberal state model does not go together with Israel. <...> Keywords Israel, law of Israel, Status quo agreement, religion and state, sources of law, sources of law in Israel, religious education system 1 The first part of this essay you can find in (2014) 1 2 KULawR 235-246. <...> Volume 2 May 2015 Issue 1(3) www.kulawr.ru 104 KUTAFIN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW TABLE OF CONTENTS III. <...> The Unique Model of the Status Quo . 104 A. The Exemption of ‘Yeshiva’ Students from Mandatory Military Service . 107 B. Marital Law in Israel . 110 C. The Shabbat . 115 D. The Kashrut . 117 E. The Religious Education System . 118 IV. <...> As Israel Develops: Additional Status Quo Disputes . 121 A. Status Quo and the Feminist Angle . 121 B. Euthanasia in Israel . 125 V. Euthanasia, Religion and State: Israel and Italy. 127 VI. <...> Conclusion . 131 Bibliography . 132 ‘Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. <...> THE UNIQUE MODEL OF THE STATUS QUO The status quo is a special agreement between religious and nonreligious political groups in Israel, which dates back to the years before the state of Israel was founded.2 On behalf of orthodox organizations 2 G Sapir, ‘Religion and State in Israel - The Case for Reevaluation and Constitutional Entrenchment’ [1999] Hastings Int’l & Comp <...>