The Mustard Takeover of Religious Zionism
Is the fact that Smotritz currently stands at the head of religious Zionism because religious Zionism itself, indeed, is disgusted with people like Bennett and Matan Kahane, etc., and wanted people who were more conservative, bordering on the extreme, who would promote a conservative religious policy, with an aspiration for a Halacha state (these are things that Smotritz has said and explicitly says that this is his desire) or is it purely political, and is there still a significant segment that would have preferred Bennett Shaked, Matan Kahane, etc.
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Compare his electorate (currently not passing the threshold) to the number of religious Zionists in the population. And even those who vote for him sometimes do so in spite of what he is, not because of him. They are prisoners of the National Democratic Party.
As I think, the rabbi also aspires to a halakhic state, doesn't he?
No. I aspire for the people of Israel to observe Halacha and then the state will be Halacha anyway. I don't want a state that continues in its current state.
I didn't mean a forced Halacha state. Just to understand, what exactly is meant by the state being Halacha? What would such a state look like? For that matter, will gay couples indeed be subject to Torah law (even if they find a way one way or another not to impose the death penalty on them)?
I can't answer here what a Halacha state will look like. There are a lot of details, and many of them can only be determined by living the situation.
One thing is clear. It will be much closer to what exists today than people think.
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