The Israeli courts have meanwhile determined that…

Rather, it is "the sovereign State of the Jewish people" where "the Jewish people consists not only of the people residing in Israel but also of the Jews in the Diaspora.

Thus, "there is no Israeli nation apart from the Jewish people" in this sense, which effectively excludes Israel's non-Jewish citizens, who constitute almost one sixth of the total population.

In the words of the late Golda Meir, fourth prime minister of the State of Israel, "the borders [of Israel] are where Jews live, not where there is a line on a map."