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Religious relations in Israel
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<p> Religious relations in Israel are relations between <a href="/facts/Haredi_Judaism/PzglLelQ">Haredim</a>, non-Haredi <a href="/facts/Orthodox_Judaism/8PGzTQaL">Orthodox</a>, <a href="/facts/Karaite_Judaism/8qHXQY86">Karaite</a>, <a href="/facts/Beta_Israel/KINATX1J">Ethiopian</a>, <a href="/facts/Reform_Judaism/yVKWaY5K">Reform</a>, <a href="/facts/Conservative_Judaism/svjNbYKM">Conservative</a>, and <a href="/facts/Jewish_secularism/GJCIraUR">secular Jews</a>, as well as relations between <a href="/facts/Religion_in_Israel/DVCB0PA9">different religions represented in Israel</a>. The religious <a href="/facts/Status_quo_(Israel)/tf3xXJqP">status quo</a>, agreed to by <a href="/facts/David_Ben-Gurion/QVytuG6W">David Ben-Gurion</a> with the Orthodox parties at the time of Israel's declaration of independence in 1948, is an agreement on the role that Judaism would play in Israel's government and the judicial system. Tensions exist between religious and secular groups in Israel. </p>