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"The left tried for decades to distance the public from tradition"

Ex-Haaretz writer: left lives in the past

Benny Tziper, formerly of Haaretz, tells Doron Cohen: They live in a world that no longer exists and don't understand the demographics have changed. The people have returned to being what they are

Haaretz

Benny Tziper, a journalist and former senior figure at Haaretz, has spoken sharply against the Israeli left, accusing it of a prolonged attempt to distance the public from tradition and Jewish identity.

Speaking on Doron Cohen's evening program on Galei Yisrael radio, Tziper addressed what he sees as deep shifts in Israeli society in recent years and the conceptual gap, he argues, of the left-wing camp. "They still live in a world of the past, they don't understand that this thing has run its course and that the demographics have changed," he said.

"The people understand this is not the way"

Tziper described what he identifies as a return of the broader public to its roots. "We have here a people that has returned to essentially being Am Yisrael," he said. "The left engineered it for several decades not to love religion and to belittle all kinds of things."

According to Tziper, that attempt ultimately failed: "This people, healthy in its soul and spirit, understood that this is not the way and now it has returned to being what it is."

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