Once Marginal Figures in Israel’s Story, Religious Zionists Have Moved to Center Stage
Yet they are now pulled in two opposing directions.
October 20, 2026
Once Marginal Figures in Israel’s Story, Religious Zionists Have Moved to Center Stage
Yet they are now pulled in two opposing directions.
While Haredim reject or merely accommodate the Jewish state, religious Zionists (or the “national religious”) embrace it as an expression of God’s will; and while Haredim shun military service, religious Zionists see it as a sacred obligation, and have sacrificed many of their sons in the recent war. Their theology, while varied, tends to be more messianic than that of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the leading theorist of Orthodox Zionism in America. Amit Segal and Ari Tatarka offer an overview of the movement’s political history:
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