“I feel like this is the first time I’ve really spoken with Moshe Feiglin. We both support a free market and individual liberty.” That was how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his press conference with Feiglin Aug. 29, where the two men announced that an agreement had been signed between the Likud and Feiglin’s Zehut party. The main principles of the agreement included Zehut withdrawing from the current Knesset election on Sept. 17. Feiglin would then support the Likud and be appointed minister, responsible for some unspecified economic or social portfolio, when the next government is formed. Furthermore, the new government would agree to advance certain economic issues and the legalization of medical marijuana.
And so, Netanyahu’s pressing political needs created a new economic partnership, leaving the two of them to gallop off into the sunset, or so it would seem. The problem is that there are quite a few treacherous obstacles along the way, as personified by Netanyahu’s other coalition partners, who do not embrace Feiglin’s economic theories.
