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Religious Zionists

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich, head of the Religious Zionist Party, addresses the party’s parliamentary faction in the Knesset this week.

The Religious Zionist Party leadership: Neither religious, nor Zionist

 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wipes tears from his eyes as he recounts the sacrifices of the Religious Zionist community, October 28, 2024.

Tearful Smotrich highlights sacrifices of religious Zionist community in IDF

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu attends to the funeral of Rabbi Elazar Mordechai Koenig in Safed on December 31, 2018.

'A duty of the highest order': Top religious Zionist rabbis tell gov't to push for hostage deal

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a news conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, last week.

'He just hates women': Smotrich-backed chief rabbi nom. faces controversy over child support policy

By BINI ASHKENAZI
Hateful opinions divide Israeli society.

Editor's Notes: Civility in flames - How public figures are tearing Israel apart

 Zvi Sukkot attends a Religious Zionist Party meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem ,January 23, 2023.

Religious Zionist MK calls settler violence 'a drop in the ocean' compared to Arab terrorism

By Walla!
Religious Zionist Party head Bezalel Smotrich  leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem. April 26, 2021

'Frayed': Looking at what is dividing the National Religious community

By LARRY M. GOLDSTEIN
 Demonstrators outside Motta Gur base in Beit Lid, where detained IDF reservists are being interrogated, July 29, 2024.

MKs, rioters break in at Sde Teiman, Motta Gur bases in protest of detention of IDF reservists

(L to R) Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, and Rabbi Dov Lior who signed the letter.

Religious Zionist rabbis oppose terms for hostage deal: 'The cost endangers Israeli citizens'

Christian students at March for Israel rally in Washington, D.C. on November 14, 2023.

Majority of American Christians believe Israel's right to biblical borders, survey finds

 HOUSING MINISTER Yitzhak Goldknopf, United Torah Judaism’s leader, in the Knesset last month. He turned to his Jewish heritage and instincts regarding the plight of the hostages, notes the writer.

The perversion of religious Zionism

A scene from the documentary series The Jewish Underground,

Halachic State vs Caliphate: How do Jewish extremists differ from Islamist extremists? - opinion

By Boaz Tamir
 Protestors demonstrating for the return of the hostages in Jerusalem, April 3, 2024.

Protest leader: 'Netanyahu built Hamas, Sinwar doesn't want elections'

 ISRAELIS MARCH near the southern town of Sderot, near the northern Gaza Strip as they take part in the Harel march in support of re-settling the Gaza Strip, on February 29.

Some religious-Zionists see Gaza as a holy war

By KATE LINTHICUM
 Jerusalemites cast their ballots for the 2024 municipal elections, on February 27, 2024.

Jerusalem municipal elections: Who won? What happens next?

 PROTESTERS AT a demonstration in Jerusalem on Monday call for the enlistment of haredim into the military. The placards carry such slogans as ‘Equal service for all.’

Israel's population cannot be the ultra-Orthodox's flak jackets regarding IDF service

 Rabbi Haim Pear, founder of Shir Hadash.

Rabbi Haim Pear: The Anglo Jerusalemite fighting municipal inefficiency

 HOUSING MINISTER Yitzchak Goldknopf of United Torah Judaism, and Tourism Minister Haim Katz of Likud were among those attending the Victory Conference in Jerusalem, last week.

The great divide of Jewish thought on the essence of Zionism

By TOVA HERZL