Canaan is a movement for liberal-democratic autonomy and for new type of regime named Sectoral-Federation. It is a civic movement, non-partisan that offers a federative solution to core issues and patterns of Israeli society that are incompatible with the structure of the old regime (unitary regime).
Unlike other ideas of autonomy that have been circulating lately, the solution offered by Canaan is not on a territorial basis, which does not have much feasibility in our country. Instead, we offer a sectoral division to four economical-cultural autonomous regimes and one central federal regime.
Autonomies will handle issues such as education, culture, marriage registration, sectoral-level welfare and health, sectoral constitution and more. The federal regime on the other end will handle shared issues such as interior and external security and foreign affair issues.
Sectors are based on the core values and regime orientation of a group. The sectors are:
– National(ist) Jewish – לאומי לאומני יהודי
– Orthodox חרדי –
– Democratic Liberal דמוקרטי ליברלי –
– National(ist) Palestinian* לאומי לאומני פלשתיני –
* In Canaan terminology Arabs is an ethnical category and not a sector
Canaan emphasis positive point of view toward self-determination – from the perspective of similarities among the sector members, and not as a confrontational position against "the others". This approach expressed for example in our terminology, using the term “Democratic Sector” (מגזר) instead of the term “Democratic Camp” (מחנה). In Hebrew these two words represents a meaningful different position in relation to self-determination and in relation to others. “Sector” refers to creation of a platform based on common traits among group members and has a context of stable state while “Camp” refers to rival and negation of the other group and carry a context of temporal state.
Canaan stance is that for unitary regime to be replaced by Sectoral-Federation it is required that the sectoral process in Israel to maturate. To help this happen Canaan is acting for creating liberal-democratic autonomy by establishing social projects and working on self-regime processes such as citizen register, decision making structure that involve citizens voting from app, cloud services for supporting the new regime and more.
Canaan uses a Participatory-Democracy model, and all its actions are based on a community that is small for now but is growing with time, as more and more people recognize the need for moving forward beyond protest and demonstration.
We act on the cloud and in the street and invite stakeholders to join our community and participate in the process of working on projects of various types: liberal-democratic autonomy, self-government, economic microcosm, an independent education system, civil marriage registry, an intra-sectoral constitution, sectoral welfare and health services, and other social solutions at the liberal-democratic sector level.
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