The 2019 Israeli Election Day is on
April 9. There are nearly 15 parties
with candidates who are running.
Among them is the Likud party headed by Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu whose stance on the Temple Mount is to uphold the Status Quo. However, not all candidates are supporters of
the present status. In fact, Moshe
Feiglin who is head of the Zehut party said that he wants to build the
Jewish Temple now. His plan would move
the government to the Temple Mount and grant the Chief Rabbinate authority over
the location. He would also extend
Israel’s authority into the West Bank and require Arabs who live in Israel to
agree and if not they will be relocated with the help of the government. Feiglin, like his party, is liberal in some
of his views, for example legalizing cannabis.
For the platform of the Zehut party, which includes a discussion on “The
Heart of the City: The Temple Mount,” click
here.
It is interesting to see how the
upcoming elections turn out. Feiglin is
perhaps too liberal and even radical for some.
What is surprising is that he overtly calls for the rebuilding of the
Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in which Jewish religion and the Israeli
state are not separate, but one. Apparently,
this approach has the support of others.
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