In the huge cloud of dust, words and slogans that has lifted the election sequence from the ground in the last two years, the religion of religion, which has dominated the agenda and headlines for more than two years, has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from our lives.
He is now presumed dead when his burial place is unknown, but the opinion assumes that it was a purely secular burial.
What actually happened to him, to the Lost Religion campaign?
How and why did it evaporate from our lives at once?
To understand this one has to go back to his birth.
The religion campaign entered the Israeli discourse cycle about three years ago, with a simple idea: the education system and the army have cunningly infiltrated foreign and religious forces, and these are trying to dominate their dark perception by sophisticated and cunning means. One arm sends national service girls from religious Zionism to secular schools to wash the minds of soft children through practical stories about Israeli holidays, and another arm inserts cognitive and subconscious messages into textbooks aimed at converting a secular person to a religious one.
As part of the campaign, weighty discussions were held in research institutes, and politicians were alarmed and appalled. Yair Lapid, for example, managed to argue within one day that religion should be fought and that it does not exist at all. Conferences were held, and the media was flooded with shocking news about deceitful Jewish missionaries lurking around us and our children on every corner. Every soldier who dared to sing "I believe" at the swearing-in ceremony became a shocking and disturbing news, every teacher who mentioned the rain prayer became suspicious. In a particularly low case, an article was broadcast on television in which it was alleged that kindergarten children were learning to sing war songs - and more about Jerusalem, have mercy on Tzelen. The children were photographed reciting a later poem written about Yitzhak Rabin, the chief of staff of the war in which Jerusalem was liberated, and reminded them of glorious Jewish fighters from the past.
The great villain marked by the campaign leaders was Education Minister and later Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, nicknamed "Minister of Religion", and portrayed as plotting to lure Israeli students and soldiers with candied apples to a dark cellar where they would be forced to dip in a mikveh and read "Shema Yisrael".
Despite the horror described here, religion has disappeared like a seasonal virus.
The reason is not the relinquishment of the conspirators of their plot to intimidate the secular children, nor did they abandon the idea of turning the IDF into an ultra-Orthodox ISIS.
They just never designed anything like it.
The evidence is, of course, the very disappearance of the campaign, since it is not possible that such a dramatic threat became irrelevant overnight, and its representatives waved a white flag and went to put on tefillin.
Religion was just one campaign in a fabric that aims to blacken the whole of Israel, to portray it as religious and dark and as one that is on the verge of doom.
The hand that shook the cradle of religion shakes other cribs, venomous and no less false, and these will probably continue to arrive in different faces and in different costumes, and disappear as they come.
In the face of the damage done, probably only the Blessed One can help.