Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a third message in three days targeting religious-nationalist audiences, according to Israel Hayom journalist Ariel Kahana. The message quotes Rabbi Kook's famous saying about baseless hatred and love, and follows Netanyahu's swift condemnation of Rabbi Landau and the government secretary's blame on Landau for the failure of the conscription law. Kahana assesses that Netanyahu is trying to appease religious-Zionist public anger over perceived Haredi control of the state.
According to Ariel Kahana, a senior journalist at Israel Hayom, Prime Minister Netanyahu has been sending a series of messages to religious-nationalist audiences over the past three days. The latest message, posted on Wednesday, quotes Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook's well-known passage: 'For baseless hatred we were destroyed, for baseless love we were rebuilt.' This follows an earlier sharp condemnation by Netanyahu of Rabbi Landau, and the government secretary Yossi Fuchs' attribution of the conscription law failure to Rabbi Landau. Kahana interprets the prime minister's communications as an attempt to soothe the anger of the religious-Zionist public, who feel the state is being handed over to Haredi interests. The timing and content suggest a coordinated effort to address internal coalition tensions.
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