to conduct. Rather, Israel understands itself as a community of persons bound in membership to one another, so that each person-as-member is to be treated well enough to be sustained as a full member of the community. In its articulation of justice as its principal obligation, Israel is acutely alert to sociopolitical differentiations and is aware that the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, live differently and need to be attended to in different ways. It is not belated ideology to recognize