(Video) Ani Yehudi 2014 אני יהודי

In honor of Chanukah: A Music Video with MK Moshe Feiglin. Enjoy and Happy Chanukah!..

LOTL..
15 December '14..

While also being a Jewish identity clip from the campaign of Deputy Speaker of Knesset Moshe Feiglin, it also has a great deal of meaning for Melody and I, as it was first played by Lenny Solomon at our Sheva Brachot in Har Nof, in 2004. Lenny had composed it for Manhigut Yehudit, but ultimately it did not go public until a few years later when someone within Manhigut realized that this piece really was the message that needed to be conveyed. As is true today. Enjoy and please share!



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MK Feiglin, Deputy Knesset Speaker on Iran, Arab Spring, U.S. Aid, and More

...We are not spread in the Diaspora anymore. We are a sovereign country. When somebody is threatening a new holocaust on the state of Israel, it is very important to make it very clear that we are those who are taking responsibility for our own security and we are those who are going to solve the problem by ourselves. It is a crucial message. In the past Israel knew, but somewhere along the way we forgot it.

Alex Newman..
The New American..
20 May '13..

JERUSALEM — Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) Moshe Feiglin, who leads the Manhigut Yehudit (the Jewish Leadership) faction of the ruling Likud Party, spoke to The New American’s Alex Newman in late April during an interview at the Knesset in Jerusalem. (The photo shows MK Feiglin, center, with Newman.) While a controversial figure in Israel and still relatively unknown abroad after his successful election in January, the new lawmaker has developed a strong following among liberty-minded Jews.

However, MK Feiglin has also come under fire for statements about Arabs and Muslims perceived as incendiary — especially the idea that Israel should encourage non-Jews to emigrate, using financial incentives in an effort to create a more Jewish state. The war veteran and former army captain, also a father of five, shared his thoughts on the role of Israel in the world and much more.

The New American: How serious is the threat from Iran? What should be done about it? Does America have any role, or is this just Israel’s problem?

MK Moshe Feiglin: The Israeli strategy is a mistake. I think our prime minister is probably the most capable man to do what needs to be done, but I have a different point of view on the strategy that needs to be taken over here. It seems like today Israel is focusing on making the issue a problem of the whole world, not only Israel, and I think it’s a mistake. I think we should do exactly the opposite. It should start and end for us as an Israeli issue that is our responsibility to solve.

We are not spread in the Diaspora anymore. We are a sovereign country. When somebody is threatening a new holocaust on the state of Israel, it is very important to make it very clear that we are those who are taking responsibility for our own security and we are those who are going to solve the problem by ourselves. It is a crucial message. In the past Israel knew, but somewhere along the way we forgot it.

I think that when Ahmadinejad first — I think about eight years ago, or 10 years ago, I don’t remember exactly when — but the first time that he came with this idea of the destruction of the state of Israel, just talking about it, I think the world was expecting a very immediate reaction — a military reaction — from Israel. When it was not done, the result of it was that the delegitimization of the state of Israel all over the world rose up, because when you are not willing to pay a price to keep your existence, when you show dependence on others to do the job for you, you lose your legitimacy to exist. It is true with every state, but much more than that with the state of the Jews.

If you ask me what should be done, first of all I want to explain that I see the delegitimization of Israel in the world — in the universities of England and France, and some of the universities in the United States as well, in the West — I see that as a bigger threat than the atomic bomb, than the nuclear threat. We should learn from our own Holocaust 70 years ago: The Holocaust did not start in 1939; it started with the speeches in the Reichstag of the Third Reich in 1933 until the war. Those speeches led to delegitimization, to a question mark, to arise about the right of the Jew to exist.

Those speeches of Ahmadinejad led to the question mark above the right of the state of Israel to exist. You can see the connection between Ahmadinejad, the fact that Israel did not react, and this question mark above our legitimacy to exist, and you can see that it comes all together, that’s the connection. When the delegitimization was there all over Europe, the Holocaust was able to happen. So I see that — those speeches, the fact that the leader of a big country, a member of the UN, speaking like that and not being punished by us right away — as a bigger problem than the nuclear weapon itself.

Now, if you ask me how Israel should react — what Israel should do, should we bomb Iran, what kind of reaction we should have — I think the answer is that we should think outside of the box. We got used to the idea of soldiers and people paying the price for the cruelness of leaders, and this is the wrong way to look at it. I think that when a leader is saying that Israel, the Jews, don’t have a right to breathe the air on the globe, he himself should lose that right. In other words, what I’m saying is that Iran is not the target, not even the nuclear reactors are the target.

Obviously it’s going to be very hard and complicated to deal with that also, and it’s going to cost a big price in Israeli soldiers and pilots and so on. The target should be the regime — the target should be the leaders; the target should be Ahmadinejad himself. We should ask ourselves how many millions would not have lost their lives if the Western world would have understood that concept with Hitler and acted at the right time.

Moshe Feiglin's Vision: This Week's Jerusalem Campaign Rally

Manhigut Yehudit..
10 Tevet, 5772..
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English Transcript of the Speech:

Thank you, each and every one of you. Thank you for choosing to be part of the faith-based revolution. Thank you very much.

We are all servants of G-d. Not for honor and not for fame – there is nothing but Him.

The Minister of Education told me that schools in North Tel Aviv are requesting to visit the Cave of Machpelah. Would you have believed that two or three years ago?

Israel thirsts for meaning. Israel thirsts for the Judaism of liberty. Slowly but surely, a new consciousness is being created here; Jewish consciousness. A wondrous energy of life and hope is awakening the Nation of Israel as it begins to fulfill its destiny. It could be that this year we will be in a new stage of Jewish history; the stage in which most of the Jewish People are in their Land. We may reach that point for the first time since the First Temple. The only question that remains is when will this wonderful Jewish revolution dovetail with Jewish leadership; leadership that is aware of and committed to Jewish destiny; leadership that will assemble all these desires and give them direction and significance. That is our task – all of us. Nobody will do it instead of us.

Moshe Feiglin's Speech (Only Hebrew)


That is why I have decided to announce my candidacy for chairmanship of the Likud and leadership of the State of Israel.

The Likud under my leadership will, with G-d's help, consolidate Israel around its Jewish identity and values.

The Likud under my leadership will, with G-d's help, restore the State of Israel to the Nation of Israel. Our state must be a Jewish state in its essence, not only in slogans. It must be a Jewish state in its society. It must be a Jewish state in its security. It must be a Jewish state in its economy and it must be a Jewish state in its justice system. Society, security, economy and justice.

(Video) Moshe Feiglin 2012: Likud primaries a battle of ideas, not personalities

Love of the Land..
04 January '11..

A full house last night at the Ramada Renaissance, to launch Manhigut Yehudit's Campaign Rally for Moshe Feiglin to be the party chairman of the Likud. While many would see this as an impossible task on such short notice, this is an important opportunity to once again present an alternative vision, of what the Jewish State, Israel, can be, of what we can accomplish, and at this time the role the Likud as governing party can play. A strong turnout January 31 will also assure those MKs who have been there at the critical moments recently, that they are not alone, and enjoy the backing of Likud's voters to stand strong.

TV Interview - Moshe Feiglin 2012: Likud primaries a battle of ideas, not personalities


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As Carl (israel matzav) had said yesterday: I urge all those who are able to do so to donate to Moshe Feiglin's campaign. And I urge all those who are eligible to come out and vote for him on January 31.

Feiglin 2012! To donate go to http://www.mflikud.com

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From Yamit to the Building Freeze: What Can Be Done?

Moshe Feiglin
Manhigut Yehudit
15 Elul, 5770
25 August '10


What can the faith-based public suggest as an alternative to the terrible situation currently facing Israel?

First, we must admit that until today we have never managed to halt Israel's process of collapse – not in Yesha and not outside it. Decades of demonstrations, countless PR campaigns and outreach projects, intelligent articles and even good satire that has begun to appear here and there – have not succeeded and apparently will not succeed in stopping the collapse.

Manhigut Yehudit in the Likud has also not succeeded in turning its political power inside the Likud into a tool that will prevent the collapse. We succeeded in forcing a Likud referendum on the Expulsion and we succeeded in adding a number of excellent MKs to the Likud list. We enjoyed many tactical successes. But we did not manage to prevent the strategic disintegration.

From the very start, Manhigut Yehudit has always reiterated that we did not enter the Likud to prevent retreats. Rather, we entered the Likud to establish an alternative for leadership for our country. Nevertheless, this week many journalists asked us if we would fight against the new political program that is gathering steam. Obviously, we will use our political power to the best of our ability. But judging by the results of the past, success or failure does not depend on us or on any other political factor.

Gush Emunim did not build the settlements. The Nation of Israel did. Gush Emunim leaders Hanan Porat, Beni Katzover and Daniella Weiss simply knew how to tug at the nation's romantic Zionist heartstrings. When the Nation of Israel willed it – the settlements were built. And when it no longer willed it, they were built no more. The faith-based public did not provide an alternative to the lost connection to our Land. It simply protested. Since the days of Yamit, we are still stopping the retreat from Sinai.

The struggles that we have led until now have not solved the problem. On the contrary; they have perpetuated it. After two thousand years of exile, the Nation of Israel returned to its Land and for some reason, decided to leave G-d outside. There are many explanations as to why the Return to Zion took place in this way. But today's reality is that the Jewish sovereignty that was renewed in the Land of Israel is playing on the "normalcy" arena according to the rules and values of the Western world.

Since the Six Day War of miracles, our demonstrations and claims against all the governments in Israel have been based on our acceptance of the axiom that this arena and these rules of the game are the best and most efficient possible. That is our greatest mistake. All the players that the national camp has put on the playing field were excellent leaders. Begin, Shamir, Sharon and Netanyahu – each in his own time – brought their own unique talents to the arena: Integrity and ideals, stubbornness, bravery and political acumen. Whoever thinks that he could lead the nation better on the existing arena and with the present rules is simply fooling himself.

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Torah as Jewish Culture

Manhigut Yehudit
04 Sivan 5770

If you ever go to the Jaffa flea market in the afternoon, you will be treated to a unique experience. At a designated moment, the peddlers stop hawking their wares, the shoppers stop inspecting the merchandise heaped in piles on the sidewalks and all gather for an open-air mincha (afternoon prayers) session. I love this marketplace prayer. It has a special grace. I always prefer to pray with working-people who stop in the middle of their toil to praise G-d than to recite the prayers in the synagogue. When the Torah becomes our national way of life, a culture that bursts forth far from the walls of the study hall, it carries the whisper of redemption on its wings.

The Scroll of Ruth that we will be reading on the holiday of Shavuot this Wednesday is the story of the Jewish People living their Torah culture in their Land. Boaz is not a yeshiva head or a famous rabbi. He is a Jew who works his land. The working people in the Scroll of Ruth remain in their Land despite the famine and abandonment by their leaders. They conduct themselves according to the cultural code of faith and loving kindness that they absorbed from the Torah and that is part of their lives.

That is also our goal; to turn our Torah into our culture. "You know," said one of the senior managers of the Knesset channel after I finished last Wednesday's interview with Atila Shomfalvi, "all sorts of religious MK's come through our studio. I am secular - I try to understand them, but I just can't. You are the only person with a kippah on his head that I can understand."

I do not think that he meant that the religious MKs are not expressing themselves with enough eloquence. I think that he sensed the connection that Manhigut Yehudit makes between Judaism and reality.

The Scroll of Ruth teaches us that this authentic connection bears the secret of redemption. Many we merit to bring it soon!

Happy Shavuot,

Moshe Feiglin

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I'm a Jew: Song of the Jewish majority

Manhigut Yehudit
04 Sivan 5770

For years, Manhigut Yehudit has been saying that the Jewish majority in Israel is proud of its Jewish-ness and identifies as Jewish above and beyond everything else. This clip is exactly what we are talking about. An all-star cast of Israeli singers has gotten together to produce this recording, which has gone viral in Israel. With English subtitles. Enjoy!



shiraniyehudi

אני יהודי! קובי אוז, רואי לוי, ליאור אלמליח, גלעד ויטל, לייזר לויד, אילן דמרי, גדי
אלטמן, יהודה כ"ץ, ירמי קפלן, לני סולומון, חיים אוליאל, פישי הגדול, אקסום, גלרון כ"ס

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Feiglin Teaches Bibi the Facts of Life

By Maya Bengal
Israel Radio's "Reshet Bet"
12 Iyar/ 26 April '10

The man is teaching Bibi the facts of life. He is playing the democratic game. He wants elections for the party institutions in their proper time. It is Bibi who does not want them and who is exerting tremendous efforts to postpone them. He is afraid to reveal what he knows: The radical right wing of the Likud will get even stronger.

They called them "parasites," "leeches," and "provocations" but the time has come to admit the truth: Moshe Feiglin and the "Feiglinites" are the Likud. They are not a foreign influence. Twelve years have passed since Feiglin joined the Likud and since then, he has become more and more powerful. MK's woo him, the Likud Central Committee members stream to him, everyone wants to bask in his shade.

The attempts by Binyamin Netanyahu to expel him from the movement, to weaken him, to scare others with his name – have resoundingly failed. Ladies and gentlemen, Feiglin is a Likudnik. "Manhigut Yehudit" is alive and kicking in the Likud. This man has succeeded in garnering 23% support in the primaries for leadership of the movement in 2006. 23%! With such an impressive result it is clear that the man is in the Likud to stay.

So Feiglin is not robbing the Likud, he is conquering it. The positions that Feiglin represents – like "Jerusalem for eternity" and "not one inch" are no longer extreme. They are in the consensus. Here's the proof – Gilad Ardan, Silvan Shalom and Bogey Ya'alon also think that the Palestinians are not partners and that there is nothing to talk about and they will certainly strongly oppose the evacuation of settlements.

This man is teaching Bibi the facts of life. He is playing the democratic game. He wants elections for the party institutions in their proper time. It is Bibi who does not want them and who is exerting tremendous efforts to postpone them. He is afraid to reveal what he knows: The radical right wing of the Likud will get even stronger. Just imagine if the prime minister of Israel would want to continue his Knesset term for four more years and would propose legislation to cancel the general elections. What would we do then? We would climb the barricades and not rest until we would force elections – because democracy, even if it is not convenient for the head of the movement, cannot be surrendered. Or, as Churchill said: It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

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Leadership and Borders

Manhigut Yehudit
18 Adar 5770
04 March '10

The Children of Israel waited for Moses for forty days and forty nights. In our era of the "instant," that is an eternity. Moses turned off his cell phone, closed his pc, and didn't even send his nation a text message. No Twitter announcing, "I'm learning Torah with the Almighty, see you soon". Zero information. For forty days and forty nights the Children of Israel waited at the foot of Mt. Sinai for their leader to return.

But there were impatient people among them who wanted a god immediately. Naturally, they turned to Aaron the High Priest. They wanted a tangible object to which to pray, something that they could see and respond to.

This is the point at which we see the great difference between Moses, the leader and Aaron the High Priest. Aaron was endowed with boundless love for his nation. He was the ultimate peacemaker; restoring love between husbands and wives, neighbors and competing factions of the nation. Everybody loved him. As the right hand man of Moses - the leader who set rules and boundaries, Aaron was indispensable. But during Moses' absence, he failed as a leader. His benevolence and soft-heartedness became a liability that allowed evil to take over. "And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose--for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies" (This week's Torah portion, Ki Tisah, Exodus 32:25).

The synergies of Moses, the leader who can break the Tablets, burn the golden calf, judge the transgressors and purify the camp of Israel - and Aaron, the lover and pursuer of peace is triumphant. Together, they build the Sanctuary in the desert and draw down G-d's Divine Presence on Israel. Together, they lead the Children of Israel until they enter the Promised Land.

But Aaron without Moses, when he has to face the impatience of the nation, unsuccessfully tries to negotiate his way through a tragedy that has lasted throughout the generations.

As we create authentic Jewish leadership for Israel, this is a lesson that we dare not ignore.

Shabbat Shalom,

Michael Fuah
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Manhigut Yehudit's Ideas Going Mainstream

Manhigut Yehudit
11 February '10

Only two weeks ago we pointed out how - slowly but surely - ideas that Manhigut Yehudit has been introducing into public discourse are eventually integrated as societal norms and become legislative proposals. We had mentioned the proposed law to give honorably discharged soldiers free land, submitted by MK Gilah Gamliel and the change in the government's handling of the illegal immigrant issue and its decision to close Israel's border with Egypt.

This week, another Manhigut Yehudit idea went mainstream, with PM Netanyahu's endorsement of the Yisrael Beiteinu proposal to allow Israeli expatriates to vote.

For Netanyahu and Lieberman, the proposed law is motivated by narrow political interests: Most Israelis are loyal to their identity and Land and naturally lean toward the right. Granting voting rights to hundreds of thousands of Israeli expatriates neutralizes the power of the Arab Knesset bloc and strengthens the right. But even though he may be governed by narrow interests, the fact that the PM has endorsed this law is a step in the right direction.

Manhigut Yehudit has repeatedly called for the granting of voting rights to every Jew as a matter of principle. The practical way to begin is to grant voting rights to those people who are already Israeli citizens. We do not propose this for opportunistic reasons but because we believe that the State of Israel is the state of the entire Jewish nation.

For more on voting rights for expatriates and world Jewry, see Moshe Feiglin's article, Israeli Voting Rights for Expatriates and Diaspora Jews.

Related article: The Great Absentee-Ballot Debate
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Moshe Feiglin on Responding to Bibi's Abandonment Strategy: Straight Talk

Manhigut Yehudit
25 Tevet 5770
11 January '10

Moshe Feiglin sets us straight on the Judean State proposal and suggests a response to Bibi's abandonment plan. Don't miss it!

Responding to Bibi's Plan to Abandon Israelis : Straight Talk from Feiglin from Manhigut Yehudit on Vimeo.

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Vote Buying Back in Likud?: By Moshe Feiglin

Israel's media focused this week on two former government ministers who went to jail for corruption. These former ministers were convicted of stealing money, certainly a serious crime. But at the very same time, the media has been ignoring a far more serious crime-in-the-making.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is attempting to steal the Likud in two stages. First, he is gearing up to nullify the Likud requirement that new members must wait 16 months before being allowed to vote in internal party elections. Without having to wait 16 months, he can register tens of thousands of new members for the Likud - entire Arab villages and worker's unions - people who do not identify at all with the party's constitution - and then instruct them to vote for his henchmen in the upcoming Likud Central Committee elections. These new voters can tip the scales in Bibi's favor on any issue that he desires. In particular, he can count on them to tip the Likud scales in favor of surrendering Judea and Samaria to our enemies. This will allow Bibi to hand over the Land of Israel to our enemies in an entirely "democratic" manner. After all, he will have received the approval of the Likud's governing body.

Just a few years ago, the Likud was notorious for vote buying. But then, with hard background work by Manhigut Yehudit, the Likud passed a rule requiring new members to wait 16 months before being allowed to cast their votes in primaries. Why 16 months? So that the new member would have to pay his annual dues twice - from his own pocket.

Unlike Manhigut Yehudit, which registers new voters on a strictly ideological basis, Netanyahu's people are using other methods to convince new members to register for the Likud. Ariel Sharon and his son Omri had used vote buying to expand the Likud membership base from approximately 100,000 to approximately 300,000 in almost no time. Entire Arab clans from Jaffa suddenly became ardent Likudniks. The Arabs of Lod inexplicably became enamored with Jabotinsky's ideology. Government employees mysteriously discovered that they were Likud members - without their knowledge, or even worse, against their will.

The Arab clans and union heads didn't register their people out of sudden ideological fervor. They did it because it was worth their while. Very worth their while. The new members did not pay the membership dues from their pockets. The tax payer did.

The damage to Israel's democracy was immense. If this type of illegal manipulation could occur in Israel's ruling party, what was left of the democratic process? After the institution of the 16 month waiting period initiated by Manhigut Yehudit, the Likud once again represented the national camp. Sharon understood that he had lost his power base, defected from the Likud and established the Kadimah party.

The cleansing of the Likud became a feather in the Likud cap. Time and again Netanyahu and other Likud leaders pointed proudly to the fact that proper laws of governance had once again been instituted in their party. "We have no more vote buying," Netanyahu declared, and the rest of the ministers proclaimed the achievement throughout Israel. "True," they admitted, "we had some unpleasant phenomena, but we have learned our lesson, cleaned our stables and today we are the cleanest and most honest party in Israel."

But all the laws of good governance mean nothing when it comes time to carry out the Left's policies. Somehow, the will to rid Israel of its Land will always drive the Likud leadership to corruption. Netanyahu knows that if the Likud will truly represent the will of its constituency, it will not allow him to carry out his intended betrayal of the Land of Israel and its voters. So he has to buy votes and dilute the strong concentration of ideological voters in the party.

There is certainly an easy step that everybody can take to counter Bibi's vote-buying efforts, save our land from corrupt politicians and keep it in our hands. Now is the time to register for the Likud! More and more people are doing it. This is the best way to convince Bibi that by nullifying the 16 month waiting period he has everything to lose.

Do you really want to stop the bulldozers before they reach Ofra and Beit El? Register for the Likud, register you friends and family and continue to reach out to everyone who has not yet registered.

New! Now you can register for the Likud on line in English at http://www.haleumi.org/121733/Registration-in-English

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The Bogie Media Fury - Analysis and Conclusions

By Moshe Feiglin

Last week's media fury over Vice PM Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon's remarks at the Manhigut Yehudit Conference was radically disproportionate to the contents of his speech. Those people who have read Ya'alon's book, The Long Short Way and heard his lectures would have a hard time finding something new or unusual with what Bogie said at the Conference.

The Conference was publicized through our regular channels, the room was filled from wall to wall, people were filming Bogie's speech with their cell phones and no measures were taken to prevent his words from "leaking" out to the press. But from the moment that the media "discovered" the Youtube film of the Conference, they basically went berserk.

Bogie Ya'alon is a Jew with roots in the Mapai of old, who has not yet adopted the rightist slave mentality. Would any politician in the Labor party refuse to meet with another member of his party for fear of what the Likud would say? Would any Labor minister refuse to lecture at a Peace Now conference for fear of the media?

At first, we thought the storm would die down quickly. We admittedly underestimated the impact of the revolution that we are leading. We forgot that Netanyahu preferred to lose one third of the Knesset seats that the Likud could have won just to ensure that our revolution would be forced out of the limelight.

Netanyahu didn't cut his vacation short to come back and reprimand Bogie because of groundless media pressure. Without realizing it, we had created shock waves tantamount to a strategic terror attack. The following article, which appeared this week on Ma'ariv's NRG website, explains the dynamics of what took place:Click here for article.

Editor of B'Sheva Newspaper: Register for Likud

In last week's Hebrew B'Sheva newspaper, Editor Emanuel Shilo wrote a scathing critique of PM Netanyahu's term in office to date. Shilo is not a Manhigut Yehudit member. In his editorials he has consistently supported the national religious parties. But the conclusion in his editorial is the same as Manhigut Yehudit's: Register for the Likud.

Registration for the Likud is another route that can have a dramatic effect on Netanyahu's government.

Membership in a party that elects its heads and Knesset roster in primaries affords its members highly significant influence on the character of the political system. Voters who vote Likud in the general elections determine the number of MKs that the Likud will receive. But only the party members, who assemble its roster, determine who those MKs will be –( leftists) such as Assaf Hefetz, Uzi Dayan and Dan Meridor, or (rightists) Benny Begin, Gilad Ardan and Tzippy Hotobeli. In the case of the Likud, which is a party that aims to lead the country, party members elect not only the Knesset roster, but also the person who will be prime minister if and when their party wins the general elections.

The political power of one ballot in the Likud primaries is the same as 20-30 ballots in the general elections. The mathematics behind this is simple. On Election Day, each individual votes once. His vote is approximately one of 25,000 votes that will add another MK from his favorite small party to the Knesset roster. On the other hand, on Likud primaries day, one can vote for more than ten candidates. Each vote is approximately one of 12,000 votes needed to enter into a realistic slot on the Knesset roster.

There is no reason why a good Jew who wishes to influence the character of Israel's political system should forgo his right and obligation to fashion the roster of the party closest to his heart. As long as there is no possibility to or significance in joining a party of the Religious Zionist camp, it would be very worthwhile that a few thousand rightists register for the Likud as soon as possible. When Likud MKs and ministers internalize the fact that their political future depends not only on Netanyahu, but also on thousands of Religious Nationalist voters, they will think twice before they are interested in supporting the new pro-Palestinian policies of the head of their party.
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