Photograph by Michal Chelbin.

The Party Faithful

by David Remnick

For the Jan. 21st issue of the magazine, David Remnick travels to Israel in advance of the country’s upcoming elections, and writes about “the implosion of the center-left and the vivid and growing strength of the radical right.” Remnick speaks to Naftali Bennett, the leader of the Habayit Hayehudi party and “the newest phenomenon in Israeli politics.” A forty-year-old settlement leader, software entrepreneur, and ex-Army commando, Bennett, who alks about “reviving” Zionism through an infusion of “Jewish values,” and his party represent the merger and a reinvigoration of two older religious parties, and he is rapidly gaining ground… Read more: http://nyr.kr/Wyk7A0