ABSTRACT
Israel is a garrison state. It is also a western democracy. The fact that Israel preserves its democratic character at a time when the required security level is increasing is rather surprising. One of the ways to review the conflict between the democratic elements and Israel becoming a garrison state is by investigating the penetration of militarism into politics. Uri Ben-Eliezer is one of the proponents of the belief in the military role expansion process that has taken place in Israel and that this process was not connected 'with modernization and nation-building, not even with military coups and the army's direct political intervention, but with militarism and war. Moshe Lissak, one of the most prominent researchers of civil-military relations in Israel, refers to the 'militarization of the civilian sector' and distinguishes between its influence on national security and other spheres. Ben-Eliezer establishes military role expansion, while Stuart Cohen stands for military role extraction.
