Esti Yaniv's heartbreaking call for unity over the graves of her sons Hillel Weigel, their memory is a blessing - is a wake-up call for all of us.
In order to try to promote even a little bit this unity, I would like to bring here precisely the rift: on the one hand - the poignant things written to me by a dear relative of mine, who opposes the legal reform;
And on the other side - my answer to them.
This is what my loved one wrote to me from the bottom of his heart:
"The people around me are authentically anxious for their existence and that of their children in this country. We are not just disgusted by the results of the elections, but we are really afraid that the last remaining shield against the Halacha state - a third world state that is rising right here right before our eyes - is collapsing."
It all starts and ends with really getting to know each other.
The gentleness of soul and the commitment to the unity of Israel, which religious families like the Yaniv family reveal to us in their most difficult moments, are in my eyes "the last defense against a halachic state" much more than the High Court. On the day when, God forbid, there will be a majority of Jews here who want to establish a halachic state - no It won't help.
The point is that we are very far from there, so much so that this concern is paranoia in my eyes.
Except that my relative is a very rational guy, and really not paranoid.
So how can he not see?
How does he not see that the majority of the people - both left and right, as well as religious, traditional and secular - is a vast community of Zionists who love their country, who are not ready to allow it to become undemocratic?
After all, this huge majority, at least two thirds of the Knesset, is the most effective shield against a Halacha state or a third world state.
The right-wing government arose mainly due to the vote of voters who have a very broad common base with the center-left: it is true, they do not want to see a Palestinian state in the Palestinian Authority that in their eyes will turn the whole country into a kind of "Gaza enclave"; it is true, they want to see the High Court of Justice More diverse and balanced and less activist, state education that is not completely alienated from Judaism, and an independent MHS that can also audit the prosecutor's office - but that's it. This is the main difference between us. As far as individual rights are concerned, including the rights of minorities who want to integrate into the state, LGBT rights, freedom The expression, the absolute condemnation of taking the law into one's own hands and the other things that make us a reformed democracy - most of your brothers on the right are your Shachpat, and you are their Shachpat.
So where does the fear come from?
In my eyes, the systematic demonization that Binyamin Netanyahu went through colored all of us.
In the eyes of many on the left, we on the right are no longer human beings who share Zionist and democratic values.
We are no longer pilots, reservists, armorers, hightists and cultural figures alongside our brothers on the left - we are just "bibists".
When you don't see your brother and partner as such, you really weaken.
You see shadow mountains as mountains.
The fear on the left is authentic, but it stems from a tragic and uncommitted concession on us, as brothers on the road.
The "last shield" of all of us, especially in these difficult days, is first of all, as Esti Yaniv asked us - to remember that we are one people.
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