Skimming off the 10-15 percent Arab minority:
20-30 percent of the Jewish population are “ultra” Orthodox who completely rejected the socialist program.
Another 10-12 percent are more “modern” Orthodox religious Zionists.
The remaining right-of-center voters – Shas and Likud – are very traditional-minded. Although not strictly Orthodox in practice, their level of knowledge and practice leaves most American Reform or Conservative Jews far behind. Their kitchens are kosher and many attend Friday night Sabbath services. Many of them come from North African and Mediterranean Jewish communities.

These people want Israel to be a democracy with an explicitly Jewish publish character, just as Christianity is a part of national identity and observance in many European countries. This normalization of Judaism is part of the Zionist project for most.

They also want their children to receive instruction in Judaism. The educational systems run by Shas and the religious Zionists are burgeoning, and the ostensibly “secular” schools that include instruction in Bible and Jewish history are swamped by parents. As in the US, many parents woke up during Covid to how progressive their kid’s curriculum had become, and are working to change that.

In addition to these longstanding traditional Israelis, many secular children of the old Labor socialists have become more sympathetic to their Jewish roots, just as their attitudes have softened to capitalism. Some of this has been fueled by the influx of Soviet emigres, many of whom are not Jewish. It turns out many of these “secular” Jews still want their grandchildren to marry Jews…

So there is a large MOR majority that wants Judaism to be a part of public national identity.

The tiny minority pushing for complete “separation of church and state” – and spinning any Jewish expression as a dangerous step towards theocracy – have amply demonstrated how little understanding or commitment they actually have to Western democracy… This is yet another cynical attack on traditional values by bitter socialist clingers.

To be sure, Israel should not take these clear signs of “Biden”‘s love and outreach personally. Other American “allies” are also benefiting:
“There’s a Lot More to the Chinese Spy-Balloon Story”—
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/theres-a-lot-more-to-the-chinese-spy-balloon-story/

Meanwhile, Daniel Greenfield has another trademark no-holds-barred article, this time on the latest round of what is commonly referred to as “The Jewish Wars”…(with apologies to Josephus Flavius, who’d be a rather wealthy man had he ever bothered to register for a copyright on the phrase…)
“Biden Administration Funds Anti-Netanyahu Protest Group;
“A coup in Israel is backed by Washington, D.C.”—
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19433/biden-administration-anti-netanyahu
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.

Yes, folks, it’s almost—yikes!—Biblical….

The IAEA said on Monday it was in talks to determine how Iran accumulated the 84% enriched uranium, just below the 90% level needed for nuclear weapons and the highest level of purity found by monitors in the country to date.

Earlier this month, the nuclear watchdog chastised Tehran for modifying the connection between the two groups of high-tech machines at its Fordow plant.

The modification was discovered during an unannounced inspection on Jan. 21 at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), a location built into a mountain where inspectors are beefing up checks after Iran said it would drastically increase enrichment levels.

In a confidential report to member states, the IAEA stated that “they were interconnected in a way that was substantially different from the mode of operation declared by Iran. […]

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Tuesday called on Washington to take steps to convince Tehran that the United States is not bluffing when it comes to the possibility of the use of force.

“If the United States does not establish a credible military threat immediately, either Israel will attack, or Iran will have a nuclear weapon, which we will not allow under any circumstance,” said the foreign minister.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned later Tuesday night that history has shown that in the absence of a credible military threat or actual military action, Iran will become a nuclear power.

“The longer you wait, the harder that becomes. We’ve waited very long. I can tell you that I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. That is not merely an Israeli interest; it’s an American interest; it’s in the interest of the entire world,” said Netanyahu.

Looks to me like Israeli national unity is a dire necessity at this moment in time on the most pressing national security grounds, as all hell can break loose on the entire people when it’s no longer possible to stall for more time to take on Iran, entailing, of course, the potential immediate attacks from Hezbollah raining missiles down out of Lebanon, to be joined in no doubt by Hamas et al from Gaza and cells placed round about Israel internally awaiting their opportunity. Blasted internal squabbling won’t help this need in any way.

But then neither will looking to Robert Malley and Co. for help — looking to the Biden regime is a fool’s game.

Three draft laws related to the government’s judicial reform program passed their first reading in the Knesset plenum on Wednesday.

The first, coined “Deri Law 2.0,” passed by a vote of 62-53. It would prevent the Supreme Court from interfering in ministerial appointments. […]

The second bill, dubbed the “override clause,” would empower a 61-seat absolute majority of the Knesset to relegislate laws struck down by the Supreme Court as “unconstitutional.” Although Israel has no constitution, it has Basic Laws that have been treated as such by the court. […]

The third bill to pass its first reading would establish the Department of Internal Police Investigations (“Machash” in Hebrew) as an independent unit, taking it out from under the authority of the State Attorney’s Office.

Barry Meislin and Art Deco are basically correct about the demographic breakdown.

The potted history is that Labor was originally a patriotic “big tent” secular socialist party during Israel’s founding period. There was even a more extreme Communist party to the left of Labor.

However, the big tent had limits. Labor actively antagonized and disenfranchised religious and non-European Jewish groups as part of its socialist vision: the sincere, ancient faith that brought many Jews to Israel was replaced with the fervor to create secular “New Jews” to stand alongside their comrades in socialist utopia.

Labor was pulled leftward and then cannibalized by its own radicalized children, who perhaps saw the contradictions between Zionist nationalism and one-world kumbaya socialism.

Meanwhile the various disenfranchised groups increased, fought against institutionalized prejudice and prospered despite economic exclusion, and organized politically, led by the Likud – the conservative, free market opposition party.

The catastrophic failure of Oslo – the last great utopian dream – has left mainstream, patriotic, secular Israelis without a political home. It also destroyed what little authority the old Establishment still had, emboldening the disenfranchised Right who had called out Oslo’s folly.

Since Oslo blew up, the former Laborites have drifted between various short-lived “centrist” parties. Have they tempered their taste for one-world socialism? Maybe – but privatisation and reform threaten the old ‘protekzia’ driven crony-ocracy that is their power base. The Supreme court is one such crony mafia.

And they cannot admit the Likudniks were right. They – like many other Left-leaning ‘lovers of humanity’ – cannot shed their own prejudice and animus towards the religious and the Sephardic “Jews of Color” (animus that the media take pains to encourage…). They still repeat the aggrieved Archie Bunker mantra that “the Likudniks and the ethnics stole the country from us.”

… So beneath the legal issues, this is a showdown between elitists who think Israel is their private country club, and millions who, having come up the hard way, will no longer be disenfranchised.

The Left in Israel (including the phony “centrist” parties of Lapid and Gantz) is genuinely post-Zionist. Secular leftwing Zionism started out as a rejection of rabbinic Judaism (which, to be fair, is rather authoritarian by nature) in the name of the Jewish People taking control of their own destiny, without waiting for divine action and independent of the guidance of bearded, black-hatted rabbis. Once the State of Israel was established, the focus of the Israeli Left gradually shifted from the self determination of the Jewish People to the exaltation of the State itself, which was to be “Jewish” mainly by virtue of adhering to the purportedly “democratic” and “liberal” values of the Western Left (which was seen to be the sole legitimate modern descendant of Judaism, by way of Spinoza). Thus, at the same time the Israeli Left demands the withdrawal from the West Bank to maintain a Jewish majority, the Leftist Supreme Court forbids the government to forcibly deport the thousands African migrants who have drifted into the country through Egypt, on the ground that deporting them would insult the migrants’ “human dignity,” thereby supposedly violating “Jewish values.”

At this point, it seems likely that the Israeli Left will ultimately – not in the immediate future, but probably within 20 years — support a binational state incorporating the West Bank, which would clearly be the end of any Jewish majority, but would ensure the acceptance of “Israel” by the US and EU (both of which seem to be under permanent Leftist control) and might even be enough to placate Iran (which is effectively backed in its anti-Zionist aspirations by both the US and EU, as well as by Russia and China). Eventually, secular Israeli Jews, for most of whom Judaism is not even a memory of a grandparent, may decide their best option is to convert and become Hebrew speaking Muslims.

To me, Israel’s situation – both internally and vis a vis its external enemies, including the US Democratic Party – looks very grim. The country’s economic vitality is not going to save it.