Yoram Hazony, The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 400 pp., $28.

YORAM Hazony, a not yet forty year-old head of a Likud-leaning Israeli think tank, is a believer in the power of ideas. He believes that the idea of Zionism is under concerted attack in Israel by Israelis, that a small group of post-Zionist cultural leaders and intellectuals has succeeded in undermining the very foundations of Israel as a Jewish state. He believes that ...