Dan Elazar was overly generous with respect to claims of constitutionalism, republicanism, and federalism in the Hebrew Bible, and too free with the term “federalism” for post-biblical Jewish polities. Yet numerous politically relevant episodes in the Bible indicate that the regimes of...

Ambiguity appears in many settings. Published reports of Israel's State Comptroller, the supreme audit body, provide material to illustrate a typology of where ambiguity occurs in Israeli policymaking and administration, under what conditions, and with what effects. Although the examples reflect...