“Here in Tel Aviv, they are so sad,” she smiles before mocking their conceits: “‘Oh, we’re soooo progressive!’” Tzipi, a retiree from the tech sector enjoying lunch in Tel Aviv, voted for Netanyahu and relishes his win in part as a rebuke to the Left. It’s not just the progressives and the leftists who lament the alliance. “They vote for Netanyahu, and he gives them whatever they want,” was one Reform Jew’s explanation. Shas continues to use Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in its television ads and billboards, including a massive billboard that hangs over the entrance to the Western Wall. In Israel, though, the religious political parties are explicit. You hear the word if a Supreme Court nominee’s personal life smells of Catholic dogma. “Theocracy” cries are heard every day in the U.S. “ Will Israel Become a Theocracy?” asked one fearful headline in the left-leaning Haaretz. That means nearly half of Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition consists of the most religious parties. The Religious Zionist Party jumped from six seats to 14 seats in the Knesset, while Shas (a party founded by an Orthodox Sephardic chief rabbi) gained two seats for a total of 11. At a Shabbos dinner in Jerusalem and at a local park in Tel Aviv, strangers expressed their anxiety about the gains made by the religious parties. 1 election caused consternation among secular Israelis and progressive Reform Jews. This is a Jewish state, which can be discombobulating to even a religious American. KFAR NAHUM - Here in Israel, nobody talks about the “separation of church and state.” The national flag is decorated with the Star of David.
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