A relentless succession of worrying developments is coming under Bibi’s watch

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“This government has no siyata d’Shmaya,” Degel HaTorah chair Moshe Gafni said back in the days of the short-lived Bennett-Lapid government.

But as the baalei mussar teach us, we’re required to examine our own faults first, and the right-wing bloc (of which the chareidim are a part) has a lot of soul-searching to do. The government has been replaced, but success hasn’t returned. The weeks are flying by, and the difference has yet to be felt on any metric: security, diplomacy, the economy, or political stability.

Earlier this month, Netanyahu appeared before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee for an emergency three-hour meeting. The agenda: Hezbollah operatives had recently infiltrated the “blue line” — the demarcation line between Israel and Lebanon — and set up camp on Israeli territory.

According to everyone present, Bibi addressed the issue at length, giving committee members a sweeping rundown of the situation; even the committee’s opposition members were impressed by his analysis. As a leading Likud member on the committee tellingly put it, “As a commentator, Bibi sounds great.”