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It’s been two weeks since Ministers Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked dropped a political bombshell by announcing that they are leaving HaBayit HaYehudi to create the New Right party. So far, their agenda seems rather disorganized.
The vision that they laid out Dec. 29 was of a party that would appeal to both religious and secular Jews. They gave examples from their personal lives: Bennett is a religious man who is married to a secular woman. Shaked is a secular woman from Tel Aviv who became a darling of the religious Zionist movement. Their message was of one big political house where right-wing religious and secular Jews could live together in harmony because they share a set of values and a similar worldview.
