Is israel considered secular or religious state?

It's a secular democracy. The Jews don't have different rules except for one -- the right to come from protection from persecution in the rest of the world through a fast track (for obvious reasons). Others come in through traditional imigration. The other religious concession is some Jewish symbolism in the flag & anthem, & the national holidays (which allow for non-Jewish such as Muslim ones too). Each religion has it's formal official oversight board (such as the chief Rabbi) but that only applies to those of that religion. So Christians aren't effected by the Jewish legalities, nor Jews by Muslims ones, etc. The country has a large number of different religions (Bahii, Druze Muslim, Bedoiun Muslim, Christian of all sorts, Samarian...) all with rights to practice their religion. Muslims have the same voting rights & are represented in the Knesset. In all fairness, there has been trouble with equality & there has been internal work on getting to a better place of fairness for all it's citizens. It doesn't help when those citizens want to blow up the other ones. But it is all part of the growing pains of a country only 60 years old with so much diversity & inherited problems. There have been step by step improvements, but there's a ways to go too. Oh, the other difference is Muslims can do a national duty but don't serve in the army for obvious reasons - security & not asking them to do go up against their own. Muslim Druze & Muslim Bedoiuns do serve. ============ Dandly The form of government is secular democracy. That is critically important & it was purposely set up that way -- so that it would be fair to non-Jewish citizens; Citizens aren't asked in any way whether to be Jewish or not. As you point out from a PR view this matters. That it's the "Jewish state" isn't the form of government. People so little realize that it's not a theocracy (which many of the Arab countries are) that it's important to clarify the form of government. True though on rereading my answer, I assumed people knew the Jewish part, so neglicated to clarify that, which you have, thanks. Kevin Jews in America don't hate each other for being from different ethnic backgrounds at all. What gave you that idea?

Exactly!!! Since they made a nationality from a religion, expect the worse... Haim Cohen, a former judge of the Supreme Court of Israel stated: "The bitter irony of fate decreed that the same biological and racist argument extended by the Nazis, and which inspired the inflammatory laws of Nuremberg, serve as the basis for the official definition of Jewishness in the bosom of the state of Israel"

Since most jews are secular, I would say yes. but this article explains some differences about the main religions in Israel and some laws that have been passed and the different views of the people that live there.

sorry that it's confusing. it's a religious state, with full civil rights protections (including freedom of religion) for all citizens.

Secular, see the way women dress here. There are religious people, but they are minority, though most people who was born here just keep Jewish tradition.,

It's a democracy. You can be whichever you like today and change tomorrow. Unlike Muslim shira law.

It is very secular, many Israelis considered themselves Israeli, with a Jewish background. But most, feel religion is foolish since the conflict in the middle east is not based on land, but mostly by religion. Even ant-semitism in America by christians is based on religion, not really on the 'zionists'. Because they know there is no such thing. I have never seen an evil zionist. I have not known a Jew that knows an evil zionist. And any israeli will tell you that they don't understand what an evil zionist is. I remember someone saying a joke to an Israeli about the idea that Jews have big noses and he was confused. He didn't understand what that really means. Same thing goes for Ashkenazi and Sephardic, because there is no such thing in Israel. Everybody is Israeli, and most people have ashkenazi and sephardic backgrounds. It is only in america that syrian, iranian and russian jews hate each other.

Israel is a parliamentary democracy. Other examples of this form of government (whether pure form or mixed) are Zimbabwe, Trinidad and Tobago, Solomon Islands, Slovakia, Samoa, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Portugal, Papua New Guinea, Niue, New Zealand, Mauritius, Macedonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Jersey, Isle of Man, Ireland, Iraq, Hungary, Guernsey, Grenada, Greenland, Dominica, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cook Islands, Canada, Bulgaria, Belize, Belgium, Barbados, Bangladesh, The Bahamas, Australia, Aruba, and Andorra. Parliamentary democracy - a political system in which the legislature (parliament) selects the government - a prime minister, premier, or chancellor along with the cabinet ministers - according to party strength as expressed in elections; by this system, the government acquires a dual responsibility: to the people as well as to the parliament.

It is a mostly secular country, though not purely. Most of the population is not religious, though religious Jews are a large section of Israeli society and they have a lot of political clout. "Land of the Jews" isn't just religious, it is an ethnic/national designation.