We need to put the genie back into the bottle, to calm the secular public’s fear that we’re going to force our will on them
The secular public’s mass struggle against any reform to the justice system has revealed their sense that the Zionist dream, in its original form — the attempt to turn the Jews into a nation like all other nations — has failed. The left feels that they built the country, they wanted something different, and this dream, to their great distress, seems dead.
We didn’t ask for this showdown. Yes, we’re part of the coalition, but that doesn’t mean we call the shots.
Justice Minister Yariv Levin didn’t consult us before the press conference that launched the judicial reform. We don’t cast a veto over the actions of the traditional sector represented by the Likud, just as we have no veto over the secular left.
But the uprising on the left requires us to return to the basic approach to dealing with the secular majority in Israel that we were taught by the Chazon Ish, Rav Aharon Kotler, and their successors as gedolei Yisrael over the past 75 years.
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