1.   And each punch and counterpunch reawakens the unresolved culture war that episodically rends the fabric of Israeli society.

2.   And they see the battle over these issues with the Orthodox as a fight over the very character of Israeli society.

3.   As Israeli society has grown more normalized, taboos have been broken and barriers flattened.

4.   At the Knesset, Shuli Gabso, an Israeli who now lives in Germany, spoke of an aggressive streak in Israeli society.

5.   Barak, in his victory speech and at the Western Wall Tuesday, held himself up as a potential healer for the deep divides in Israeli society.

6.   Barak will also have to look inward at the division in Israeli society between secular and ultra-Orthodox.

7.   A far deeper influence on subsequent policy has been the more general paternalism toward women in Israeli society, Israeli social scientists say.

8.   A leader in the effort to integrate Ethiopian Jews into Israeli society, Odenheimer is a proud leftist who lectures about the connection of Judaism to social justice.

9.   But he said the nature of Israeli society demanded finding a way to do it.

10.   But it was not a cross section of Israeli society.