Fashioning a working political structure in Israel that will bring together all aspects of society, from Jews to Arabs, ultra-Orthodox to assertively secular, has never been easy. However, two developments have intensified this challenge: demographic changes have sharpened the differences between the groups, and open challenges of legitimacy have undermined the previous de facto acceptance of pluralism. In this volume, 12 noted scholars of Israel present authoritative and analytic overviews of these important issues.