Who are the Baalei HaBayit? Modern Israel and the Isaac Covenant
The recent elections in Israel have resulted, Baruch Hashem , in an overwhelming victory for the political Right. Between the Likud and the Religious parties, there is a comfortable majority of 64 out of 120 seats likely to form the next government. Now 64 out of 120 might not seem like such a landslide win. But the victory for the Right is, in fact, far greater than that. The parties headed by Avigdor Liberman, Benny Gantz, Gideon Saar, Ayelet Shaked, and even Yair Lapid also lean primarily toward the political right. They no longer believe in the “Peace Process,” see no current prospect of a “Two State Solution,” and largely recognize that the Oslo accords were a disastrous pipe dream. However, they are in opposition mainly due to personal animosity to Bibi Netanyahu (much like anti-Trump Republicans) and/or the Haredim. If you add them to the mix, there are really only 14 seats out of 120 that are either the Arab parties or the hard Left (the far-left Meretz party did not even...