Where is Judaism functioning as private faith, where as national identity, where as legal-political claim, and where as eschatological horizon? A 20,000-word structural analysis of the unresolved tension between a Jewish state and a plural democratic state under war conditions. 1.2% of summoned Haredi men reported for induction. The Knesset voted 56-47 to criminalize egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall. The prime minister invoked Amalek on the first night of strikes and declared a 'War of Redemption.' The settlement finance minister said his party stays in government 'to make sure the war doesn't end.' Six frameworks: Covenant vs. Sovereignty, Messianic Nationalism (Inbari/Ravitzky), Civil Religion (Liebman/Don-Yehiya), Ethnoreligious Citizenship (Smooha/Yiftachel), Democratic Legitimacy Under Permanent Emergency (Agamben/Schmitt), Sacralization-Secularization (Van Leer/Fischer). Six perspectives steelmanned. Six composite characters. Opens at Tel Hashomer induction center.

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