Monday, June 14, 2021

He ‘won the lottery’ of Israeli politics. But Naftali Bennett remains an enigma

 https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-10/israel-naftali-bennett-likely-prime-minister-enigma

 Bennett still wears a small yarmulke, or skullcap — in Israel, normally a signifier of devout Orthodox Judaism — which clings to his bald pate in a precarious manner that even admirers sometimes lightly mock. But his degree of religious observance is sometimes described by Israeli observers as “modern Orthodox lite.” His wife, Gilat, a high-end pastry chef, is reported to be secular but a keeper of the Sabbath.

 

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