Israel is a democratic republic with a parliamentary system modeled after the UK. The "Basic Laws of Israel" serve as a constitution, although uncodified. Because it is uncodified the relationship between the Basic Laws and other legislation is not concrete, and the judicial system makes those decisions which then may become precedents. The judicial system is three-tiered (magistrate, district, and Supreme court respectively and in that order lowest to highest). Israeli law comes from English common law, civil law, and Jewish law traditions.
I would need to do more research to know for sure, but I suspect, based on observations and study of the UK legal system, states with uncodified constitutions tend to create different legal cultures. The "spirit of the law" is put above the letter of the law, where as in the U.S. the "letter of the law" is usually held higher.
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