After the post of Interior Minister and right-wing chairman, Ayelet Shaked, Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs and Party Membership, Matan Kahana, also addresses the citizens of Israel with a post on his Facebook account. “I will continue to be the home of moderate and state religious Zionism.”
Kahana opened his remarks and mentioned that “last week there were statements that implied that the ultra-Orthodox parties will not cooperate with any party of which I will be a member. These calls came, not by chance, from unknown elements in the Likud. “Shelly is not dealing with me in any way. There is something fundamental here that is thought-provoking. Of all the Knesset members, I am the man they are not willing to talk to?”, Kahana wondered.
“Exactly me is not invited to the wedding of Moshe Gafni’s granddaughter? (And on this occasion – congratulations to the young couple and only with joy). “Everyone who has met me for more than two minutes will testify that I am at least a relatively pleasant person, one who tries his best to escape quarrels (including ultra-Orthodox public figures who have been in contact with me over the past year). My friends in the military will probably say even better things.”
“It’s not me, Matan Kahana, who scares them”
The deputy minister wrote that this is not the main point of the story. “This is the way and the people I represent. This is probably what threatens my platoon. They know that I am a God-fearing person who was careful to keep the commandments even in military service where it was not always easy. “Israel, I have been saying for years that the ultra-Orthodox are the solution to the state’s problems.”
“It is not me, Matan Kahana, who frightens them. This is the way I represent. The community and public to which I belong and which they have sought to abolish and exclude for so many years. The way of religious Zionism (not the one robbed by a political movement that many And its leaders). This is the way of people who came to be the connecting link between all parts of society. This is the way that comes to combine Torah and work. This is the way of Torah study at the highest level and the most meaningful military service. Exactly from my beit midrash. “
“And apparently this way, this truth, scares some people. And I understand them. Because they saw what I managed to do in one year to advance that way. And that’s what I intend to continue to do. I will continue to be the home of moderate and state religious Zionism. Peg in the company tent. “The bridge without which this country has no coexistence.”
In conclusion, he wrote: “I will continue to represent a large and wonderful public for whom the uprising of the people and the state are an integral part of the Jewish character of the state, who want to continue to build a Jewish and democratic state here.”