Is there an Israeli nation? How is it related to the historical "Jewish People"? How is it related to the Zionist movement? Under what conditions could non-Jews become equal members of this nation? These and other questions stand at the center of the Moshe Berent's "A Nation Like All Nations: Towards the Establishment of an Israeli Republic." The mission of the Zionist movement was to work toward the normalization of Jewish existence: to become "a nation like all nations." Israel, contrary to that aspiration, is not a normal nation-state, since according to the formal national ethos it...