Opps.... I meant to add this, regarding the question of Israel and religion;
"The Law of Return (1950) grants every Jew, wherever he or she may be, the
right to come to Israel as an oleh (a Jew immigrating to Israel) and become
an Israeli citizen. For the purposes of this Law, "Jew" means a person who
was born of a Jewish mother or has converted to Judaism and is not a member
of another religion."
Which sure sounds to me like a religious state....
Bob