Preserved place in history: Sheldon Adelson gave the feeling that his entire economic empire was built for Israel | Israel today

Sheldon Adelson also made Zionist strategic contributions for Israel, as in the Faculty of Medicine at Ariel University • "Putting Israel at the top of his priorities should serve as an example to American Jews," Danny Dayan said this week.

• Gave the feeling as if the entire economic empire was built for Israel.

  Adelson at Ariel University in Samaria

  Photography: 

  Zeliger

An invaluable asset the Jewish people lost this week, with Sheldon Adelson's passing away.

Looking at the paths of donations he has scattered with immense generosity over the years, it seems that only one thing is woven between them all: the good of the people of Israel.

As if the whole mighty economic empire he built with his ten fingers was primarily intended to serve this purpose.

The one who noticed this closely was Danny Dayan, as head of the Yesha Council and later as Israeli consul in New York. "He was involved wholeheartedly in every issue for the benefit of the people of Israel and the Land of Israel," he says. Same goal. 

"His contribution to the Faculty of Medicine at Ariel University is a strategic contribution to the development of Samaria. The place creates a completely different reality, it fortifies the status of Ariel and the whole of Samaria and strengthens it more than ever. I attended a conference announcing $ 70 million for the Birthright project. Continuation of Jewish existence in the United States, and Israel's connection with the younger generation facing assimilation and alienation.

He carried this project almost alone on his shoulders.

So are the donations to Yad Vashem and other organizations.

Not only the political interest was important to him, but the continued existence of the Jewish people.

And the connection with the State of Israel that will not be severed. 

In great pain: Sheldon Adelson 1933-2021

"I have always lamented that American Jews do not prioritize their treatment of Israel when they elect their representatives in elections.

But Adelson did.

When he would meet potential candidates for the presidency or the Senate, the only thing that interested him was their attitude toward Israel.

This action should have served as an example to the Jews of the United States, and I hope it will continue to do so. " 

Shakes the monkey of the "flocks"

In the current attack on Netanyahu, who dared to appeal to the Arab public and ask for his support, it is worth remembering that he was not the one who expressed racism.

Even the saying of the "flag" - the Arabs flock to the polls - was unsuccessful but was not said in a racist context.

All Netanyahu intended to say was that the joint list would grow due to an increase in voting rates in the sector.

It's not racist, it's political.

So why was the statement unsuccessful?

Because it was said in an abusive and inclusive manner and gave a boost to those whose Arab hatred does pulsate among them.

Sometimes it does not matter what a person says, certainly a leader, but what his listeners understand. 

In the last year, there has been an attempt by left-wing elements in the political system to create a blur between attacks on Arabs, which have a hint of racism and more, and criticism of the views of Arab MKs, which is a completely different and legitimate matter. That Israel is the home of the Jewish people and not the home of different peoples.

To say of this opinion that it is a racist opinion is as much as to say of the Law of Return that it is racist. 

Since the Arab Knesset members joined the Knesset on separate lists, they have engraved on their banner the opposition to the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people.

Zionism has always been seen as a foreign entity that has no right to exist in the Middle East, perhaps anywhere else in the world.

All Arab Knesset members from all Arab parties, without exception, believe so. 

Therefore, in all Israeli governments, no one even thought for a moment to attach an Arab list as a member of the coalition.

In the last year, when the only agenda of the successors of the mythical left-wing leaders became the overthrow of Netanyahu, this principle, in which a state could not attach its infidels to its leadership by its very existence, was trampled on and became a tool. 

But there is no connection between this and the civil rights of Israeli Arabs who are citizens of the state.

All governments saw a need to take care of the welfare of the Arabs in their localities and villages, who more and who less.

Netanyahu was on the side of those who gave more.

Along with the warning to cooperate with the Arab MKs in the political, security and political spheres, the Arab population actually cared. In budgets, five-year plans, and expanding assistance in the areas of security and government services. Was really detached from moves he had made so far behind the scenes. That does not mean, God forbid, that there was no political consideration here. And how else was there.

Netanyahu focuses on the Arab population, even if the potential for joining is not great // Photo: Gil Eliyahu - Ginny

Netanyahu already understood the power of the sectors in the previous election campaign.

So he did it with the Ethiopian sector and achieved impressive success through Gadi Yabarkan who left Blue and White and joined the Likud.

In this election, the fourth, the focus this time is on the Arab population.

The potential for joining is not so great.

At most a mandate.

Suspicion in the sector is still high.

But the damage to the joint list, which automatically joins a blocking bloc against the Likud, could be great and perhaps even decisive. 

Surveys conducted by Netanyahu show that in a more optimistic scenario, even more significant achievements can be achieved.

That there is a large rift between the Arab population and the common list.

Many are angry at the Arab MKs' opposition to Avraham's agreements. Netanyahu's general vaccination campaign also affects the Arab population quite a bit. According to the data, the prime minister is perceived as a kind of savior there as well.

These figures suggest that support for the Likud could reach up to three new seats for the Arab population.

Joining familiar figures from the sector in support of Netanyahu, such as the mayor of Nazareth this week, such as Mansour Abbas before him, is peeling away the veil of suspicion in a slow process. 

After the last election, all borders were crossed with the planned cooperation of all the leaders of the Zionist parties from the Rak-La-Bibi bloc with the joint list, to oust Netanyahu.

Even Lieberman, who promised to deny citizenship to Ahmad Tibi and Ayman Odeh, has already given the green light to the emerging hallucination.

Only thanks to Orly Levy, followed by Yoaz Handel and Zvika Hauser, was the disgrace spared.

In the next Knesset, it is possible that they will no longer find three righteous people, perhaps not even one.

Netanyahu's actions are now used as fuel for the groves of the plan and they are already preparing the ground for its implementation on the pretext that if Netanyahu is allowed, then so are they.

Although there is a difference between the government's political and security reliance on MKs who deny the state's right to exist and believe that justice is done to its enemies, and the transfer of budgets and the preservation of basic civil rights. Therefore the blurring work is ongoing He has a problem only with Balad.

In one moment he bleached the rest.

When necessary, also the NDA Ttcbs. 

Who is right than me?

Every election Netanyahu's right-wing voters says that key to the success bloc voting goes wide as possible Machal.

So far-right parties remain unanswered as the largest straw votes are Ezuz PM sucked the last drop. Now in her right hand believe they found the solution. In the coming weeks will try to explain every possible way that only safe right-wing government is a vote for them. 

By the same logic, The Likud may once again be left without a government and the state may be dragged into the elections again. To ensure the establishment of some right-wing government, whether with or without Netanyahu, a great right is needed. So what's the difference between Bennett and Saar? After all, Saar is also right-wing, and this week he even added former Yesha Council chairman Danny Dayan. So it is that Saar does not have the first option. She's first and foremost a right - wing government, at least that's what he's saying. The

right

wing 

believes that Smutrich's move this week was planned. That he did not really negotiate.

That his plan to run alone at the head of the Religious Zionist Party had long been drawn up before him, and that the talks with Bennett were intended to divert attention and place the responsibility on those who supposedly gave up values ​​and ideology, which should strengthen support for those who remained steadfast. 

They think that Smutrich, a man of values ​​and faith, has recently suffered from the sin of arrogance.

That some good polls have undermined it.

That they, the people of the right, are the ones who gave him the legitimacy and turned him in the last year from an extreme fringe figure to the mainstream.

And now he is kicking everything and embarking on a new path without them.  

Their evidence that everything was planned in advance, backed up by the schedule of negotiations, according to them. On Tuesday last week, a meeting was held between Smutrich and Bennett. According to them, the chairman of Religious Zionism did not raise issues of principle but only the issue of armor.

Bennett refused and the parties dispersed.

According to Ayelet Shaked's proposal, a deadline is set for negotiations as if this is the deadline for submitting the lists. Bennett and Smutrich adopted the proposal. It was decided that by the deadline, the parties would not attack each other. On the right.

Bennett restrained himself and on Sunday passed his final bid.

Smutrich refused and ran to be interviewed against Bennett with all his might.

At this point in the right they realized, they say, that Smutrich was not really negotiating and returned war. 

Smutrich had a completely different version. From the first moment, he said, the debate was purely ideological. As the leader of religious Zionism, he explained, he could not take this dear public on an adventure. Bennett has renounced values, announced that he is taking a break from ideological issues, and who knows which government he would prefer to join, even when the option to go with Netanyahu to the right-wing government is on the table. He even promises that if he is the 61st finger of the right-wing government he is Ready (in an extensive interview with him on page 8 of this supplement, Smutrich expands on his arguments).  

NRP, not in a nostalgic segment

Next week, the primaries for the presidency of the Jewish House will be held.

The assessments that the greatest forces in the political system are getting their hands on the religious Zionist cauldron and stirring vigorously, make the event worth dwelling on.

Bennett is interested in Nir Orbach's victory.

This will bring the Jewish home into ripe rural hands.

Two people are interested in Hagit Moshe's victory: Smutrich.

And Benjamin Netanyahu.

As far as is known, each of his considerations, without coordination between the two.

Orbach was Bennett's right-hand man for years when he led the Jewish House, and a partner in all political moves in party institutions until his retirement and the establishment of the new right, and the two remained in warm contact.

Moshe, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, in a completely different direction.

"My goal," she says, "is to turn the Jewish Home into a meaningful party and our ideology into a political force. Going back to the days when figures with different shades like Zevulun Hamer, Hanan Porat, Shaul Yahalom and Yitzhak Levy sat together and represented the general public. In a nostalgic passage, but in an authentic representation of the national-religious public. 

"There are kippah wearers in every party, but they do not necessarily strengthen political power and commitment to the national-religious public. Connecting with the right is not a connection. Bennett announced that he is not a religious party. He abandoned religious Zionism. He headed the Jewish House and left. He wants the house. The Jew is only a lifeline to hold on to in the event that the seats are abandoned and he no longer passes the blocking percentage. "

According to her, despite Netanyahu's desire for her choice, it is not because of him that she is now in the race.

"My decision to run is stronger than any wish of the Prime Minister."