Taubes Sees No Truce Between Church and State for Israelis

"The West has achieved a truce between church and state," Jacob Taubes, visiting lecturer in Philosophy, told 75 Law students yesterday.

Taubes, on leave from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, contrasted this situation with the "violent divergence on major promises of what that state should be" which he found in Israel.

Israel will have to look for a new solution, he suggested, "a solution not found in any book or in any modern state." The job is made especially difficult by "the emotional connotations of Jerusalem in three major religions," he said.