Zehut party chairman Moshe Feiglin exhibited an air of confidence as the polls in the weeks ahead of elections showed him earning five or six seats – telling the media “Zehut will be the election surprise”. It appears that the surprise backfired, leaving him outside the 21st Knesset, with only 2.51% of the vote, some 101,704 votes early Wednesday morning, not enough to cross the election threshold. (The numbers quoted are not final).
Feiglin used his Facebook page to explain the situation, “Much will be written about what happened in our country in the 2019 elections, but what excited me more than anything else were the dozens of Israelis who left Israel years ago and who took the trouble to come and visit the homeland in order to vote for Zehut. They left because of the enslavement and they owed themselves this little move that might have returned their country to them – and to return them to the state.”
Feiglin claimed that he was not concerned about the final results, but rather something completely different: “It is still difficult to know for sure what the final result will be, the voices of the soldiers have not yet been counted. Where has the great spirit that an entire generation has been gripped by the enthusiasm that no party has been able to produce has disappeared, where are the thousands who sang with tears in the hangar 11? What happened to polls that already predicted 8 seats?”
Feiglin continues the extremely lengthy post, blaming everyone around him rather than to look in the mirror and realize that his agenda is unwanted among voters; religious and otherwise, and once again, his attempt to become one of the players in Knesset has failed despite his change in image. In this election campaign, Feiglin abandoned the right-wing Har Habayis agenda for the legalization of marijuana, hoping to bring in enough young voters to get into Knesset. Even this dismal attempt failed and once again, Feiglin remains outside of Knesset.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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People who want to get high aren’t interested in a quasi-messianic approach to the West Bank, and have little desire to serve in the army that will be involved in the wars that would result; People interested in Torah things, have little interest in drugs since like most fanatic frummies (of all types, from religious zionists to hareidi) they get high on Torah and Mitsvos.