The booklet on religion and state presents the reader with a selection of articles and speeches on religion and state, in which Menachem Begin, as a Knesset member and as prime minister, deals with the tensions between the freedom of the citizen in Israel and the Jewish character of the state. As a prominent student of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, and faithful to his national-liberal outlook, Menachem Begin extensively addresses the questions of who is a Jew, conversion, Shabbat and Jewish holidays.