The Haredim
part of Rabbi Moshe Pitchon’s Israel After Charisma, a pre-election series examining the political re-emergence of Naftali Bennett ahead of Israel’s next national elections.
Israel funds a growing Haredi education system that rejects core studies, threatening economic sustainability, workforce participation, and national cohesion ahead of 2026 elections.
A crisis begins when events unfold in such a way that it is no longer clear who is supposed to answer, even though the demand to answer has not gone away. These moments function in Jewish history not merely as events, but as thresholds.
Poll after poll over the past year-and especially in recent months- have shown that young registered voters are becoming five more time likely than their elders to express unfavorable views of Jews. Younger cohorts are more willing to repeat classic tropes about Jewish power, to justify hostility toward Jews or