Leaders of the nationalist ultra-Orthodox community see the wars in Gaza and with Iran as divine intervention that expedites the era of redemption. The security discourse has given way to talk of miracles, and prominent rabbis are anointing Netanyahu as a messenger of God
Moments after the war with Iran broke out last month, it became clear that what had been framed in public discourse as a military-political struggle was, for certain influential circles, a completely different kind of event.
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