I think it's a big mistake to classify Israel as a Western Democracy. It's an ethno-religious state. There's no recognized civil marriage in the country, (it's hard to imagine even the strongest hardliner in any Western Democracy to argue that a Jew can't legally marry a Muslim), the country has few formalized borders, statehood grows out of territoriality and ethnicity. The defining feature isn't the rule of law (which exists in plenty of non-democratic, non-western countries) but the secular citizen and legal statehood.