To analyze Israeli society, one should inevitably pay attention to its security (concerns) and its ideology, as these fundamental indicators affect other spheres. In this regard, two completely different viewpoints exist whose characteristics we will identify as follows:
Dan Horowitz emphasizes the fact that Israel has a military origin and nature, and it is gradually adapting itself to the realities and the requirements of a civil society. It has therefore completed a trend of structural integration of military forces within the texture of a civil society.(5) Thus, what can be observed under the present situation are military characteristics within in a civil society and civil society indicators within the varied structure of the Israeli military forces.
On the other hand, Harold Lasswell notes (the presence of) the characteristics of a "garrison state" and he believes in a more dominant role for the military. He sees the military in Israel as being completely ideological and imposing its interests upon the political system, the state and civil society. Thus, the militaristic ideological ideas that are propagated as basic values in the civil society of Israel, possess military and security-related characteristics.
Ignoring the indicators considered by Lasswell and Horowitz with regard to the characteristics of Israel
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