Will an unholy alliance destroy Israel’s Jewish character?
Illustration: Avishai Chen
The year is 2024, and in the Israeli prime minister’s office on Balfour Street sits Yair Lapid, while former PM and current foreign minister Naftali Bennett arrives once again in America for talks on Iran.
En route to Washington, he stops in Manhattan — site of a couple of his forgettable UN appearances — for a meeting at the headquarters of the Jewish Federations.
Gathered in the organization’s offices in the financial district is America’s Jewish communal leadership, there to congratulate Bennett for his term as Israel’s 13th prime minister. The cause for celebration is not the dovish approach to the Palestinian issue that the former hawk has taken since attaining power in 2021.
Rather, Bennett is being feted by the non-Orthodox establishment for the revolution in Israel’s religious status quo that his government has succeeded in pulling off.
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