ONE on with Naftali Bennett ONE Prime Minister of Israel

ONE on with Naftali Bennett ONE Prime Minister of Israel

GENERAL INTEREST PROFILE ONE ON with Naftali Bennett ONE Prime Minister of Israel Background Army Shabbat Naftali Bennett was born in Haifa in 1972. Six years in the IDF’s elite Sayeret Matkal His father was a real estate agent and unit and commander in the elite Maglan Shabbat is family time, when the kids get entrepreneur and his mother was active unit. to spend time with Abba. “When Shabbat in the American community in Israel. comes in – phew!” Family During his childhood, the family moved Married to Galit, a professional chef whom Jewish unity between Montreal, Israel and New Jersey, he met on Ammunition Hill where she “It’s all about tolerance, acceptance and returning when his father fought in the worked as an educator for youth groups. Yom Kippur War. They have four children and live in Raa- togetherness. Uniting the Jewish people. nana. “Our life is very normal at home,” Not in the sense that we’re trying to avoid Childhood he says. “We like to hike around Israel. We disagreements. It’s okay not to agree. It’s haven’t been able to do that lately and I important to create a dialogue, not from He loved to hike among the trees in the miss it.” a feeling of superiority of one group grove near his house in Haifa. “I had a won- over another, but from a perspective of derful childhood,” he says. “We were not Entering politics partnership.” especially spoiled. I would walk in order When the Second Lebanon War broke out, to save the bus fare.” “The State of Israel belongs to us all. We Bennett found himself fighting for his have a wonderful nation, and we all have “Once, my mother heard her sons using the country, with Galit pregnant with their a commitment and responsibility to take word friar (Hebrew for “loser”) and asked daughter. care of our country. The political disputes what it meant. We said to her, ‘A friar is The trauma of the war led him to the and divisions must not overshadow our someone who helps out and gives without decision to enter politics in an effort to basic concern for Israel.” receiving anything in return.’ influence the country’s leadership, and he became Binyamin Netanyahu’s Chief My mother told us off and said in her heavy of Staff (2006–2007). “Life is not only about How does his kippah American accent, ‘If so, friars are good. I enjoyment, but mostly for serving and stay on his head? want you to be friars your whole life.’ My fixing.” “I am proud to be religious, I am proud parents left the good life in America to “After seeing what I’ve gone through, I of my kippah.” He uses Kippah Keeper – a live in Israel, without knowing a word in don’t think my children will follow in my product made of reusable double-sided Hebrew. Not because they were forced to, footsteps.” Two of his kids want him to medical tape. Once, he had to deliver a but because they had ideals. leave politics altogether, while the other speech outdoors on a windy day when he They didn’t come to receive, they came to two are more understanding. discovered he was out of tape. He took a give. They came to be friars… These are the “I try to educate them that their sacrifice piece of chewing gum and stuck it on his kind of friars that make Israel great.” is for the good of the country.” head to keep his kippah in place! n FIVE FACTS ABOUT NAFTALI BENNETT When he One of his In 5th grade, He was born worked in sons is named he burned his After his into a secular hi-tech, he after Emanuel school’s back army service, family and successfully Moreno, who yard when his he worked as became made two fell in combat science project a gardener. religious of his exits worth in the Second went haywire. own volition. millions of Lebanon War. dollars. 56 | .

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