Rav Yigal Levenstein, rosh mechina of Eli, appeared on Avi Shoshan's podcast and addressed the results of the recent Israeli elections.
"I saw an amazing billboard on the Ayalon," Rav Levenstein said. "It said 67 mandates want change, the people want change. The first part is correct, the second part is not correct. 67 mandates that include the Arabs, who are not part of the Jewish people, want change, they don't want Bibi. But that the people don't want Bibi, that's not correct."
"The majority of the Jewish people want Bibi. There is a Jewish minority that doesn't want Bibi," he stated.
Asked whether the formation of a left-wing government with Arab support constitutes an existential threat to the State of Israel, he answered, "On October 7th there was an existential threat, and now the Arabs are challenging us again with an identity threat, and it's much harder to deal with. It's abstract. There are no rifles here and no pistols, there is an attempt here to dismantle the DNA of the Jewish state."
He added that he does not see how such a government can hold: "Large parts of Gadi Eisenkot's party are Religious Zionism, it's hard for me to see them bringing the State of Israel to existential danger."
