Sure, you can go to Cyprus. but what if an Israeli want to marry a person from the West Bank... will the state of Israel approve of that person from the West Ba

Sure, you can go to Cyprus. but what if an Israeli want to marry a person from the West Bank... will the state of Israel approve of that person from the West Bank to fly to Cyprus? Nope. Not a chance in hell. I've been to Israel a bunch of times. I've also been to Palestine and Lebanon. Israel isn't a "secular western state." For one, Israel does not have a written constitution, even though according to the Proclamation of Independence a constituent assembly should have prepared a constitution by October 1, 1948. That delay in the preparation of a constitution resulted primarily from problems that emerged against the background of the alleged clash between a secular constitution and the Halacha (the Jewish religious law). So even from a legal perspective, Israel can't decide whether it's a secular or religious state.