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October, 1989, pp. 289-310. Mosheh Una , Bederakhim Nifradot: Hamiflagot Hadatiot Beyisrael(Gush Etziyon: Yad Shapira, 1984), 83-105, offers a good journalistic survey of the various and unsuccessful efforts by Orthodox Zionists to prepare Jewish law to serve as the legal foundation of the new state

16. Most of Herzog’s Zionist halakhic writings are collected in the posthumous three-volume collection Techukah Leyisrael Al Pi Hatorah(Jerusalem : Mosad Harav Kook, 1989). See also his Pesakim Ukhetavim, nine volumes(Jerusalem : Mosad Harav Kook, 1989), particularly volume nine, which deals with issues in Choshen Mishpat. Finally, we should mention his Main Institutions of Jewish Law, two volumes(London: Soncino, 1936), which attempts a restatement of Jewish civil and monetary law(dinei mamonot) and which hints at its author’s desire to see the halakhah“updated” as part of the movement toward statehood(see v. 1, xv­xvi). Herzog’s career as a halakhist is explored in B.S. Jackson, ed., Jewish Law Association Studies V: The Halakhic Thought of R. Isaac Herzog(Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991) and by [tamar Warhaftig,“Rabbi Herzog’s Approach to Modernity,” in Moshe Sokol. Ed., Engaging Modernity: Rabbinic Leaders and the Challenge of the Twentieth Century(Northvale, NJ : Jason Aronson, 1997), 275-319.

17. R. Ouziel’s responsa are collected in his Mishpetei Ouziel(Tel Aviv : 1935-1947). A selection of these responsa that speak to“contemporary issues are published as Piskei Ouziel Beshe'elot Hazeman(Jerusalem : Mosad Harav Kook, 1977). On R. Ouziel see: Shabbetai Don­Yechya, Harav Benzion Meir Chai Ouziel: Chayav Umishnato(Jerusalem : Histadrut Hatziyonit, 1955), the entry by Geulah Bat-Yehudah in Encyclopaedia Shel Hatziyonut Hadatit(Jerusalem : Mosad Harav Kook, 1971), 4:173-184; Chaim David Halevy,“Pesikat Hahalakhah Ve ahavat Yisrael bemishnat R. B. Z. Ouziel,” Niv hamidrashyah 20-21(1978­1979), 55-69; Mark Washofsky,“Responsa and Rhetoric,” in John C. Reeves and John Kampen, weds., Pursuing the Text: Studies in Honor of Ben Zion Wacholder(Sheffield, UK : Sheffield Academic Press, 1994), 386/f. 18. The Mizrachi ideologue S. Z. Shragai, reflecting upon Rabbi Ouziel’s readiness to respond too all such inquiries directed to him, calls him“hameshiv hagadol behilkhot hamedinah le or hatorah™, Y. Refael and S. Z.. Shragai, eds., Sefer Hatziyonut Hadatit(Jerusalem : Mosad Harav Kook, 1977), 1:72.

19. The quotation is from A. Y. Sharir, the editor of Harabanut Vehamedinah(Jerusalem : Erez Publishing, 2001), a collection of Yisraeli’s articles and essays. Yisraeli’s responsa, rabbinical court rulings and other halakhic writings on matters relating to Jewish statehood appear in his books Amud Hayemini(Tel Aviv : Moreshet, 1966), Mishpat Sha'ul(Jerusalem : Makhon Mishpat Vehalakhah Beyisrael, 1997), and Havat Binyamin(Kefar Darom: Makhon Hatorah Veha’aretz, 1992). As we shall see, Yisraeli was also the editor of the Zionist halakhic

Journal Hatorah Vehamedinah.