Understand Israel: religious movements, Haredim, ‘knitted kippahs’ and the main debate about the future of the state — video by Sophie Ron-Moria / Levi Tabachnikov
On June 28, 2026, a recording of the meeting of the project "Understanding Israel", dedicated to religious movements and sectors in Israel, was released on the World Israel Beytenu channel.
It was not a dry lecture about terms.
The conversation between Sophie Ron-Moria and Levi Tabachnikov was an attempt to explain why it is impossible to truly understand modern Israel without understanding its internal religious and social groups: its politics, army, education, conflicts, elections, culture, and daily life.
The guest of the episode was Sophie Ron-Moria — a lawyer, journalist, publicist, writer, columnist for "Maariv", and participant in discussions on Channel 9. In the conversation, she was presented as a representative of the national-religious environment, that is, religious Zionism — the sector often called "knitted kippahs" or dati-leumi in Israel.
The host of the meeting was Levi Tabachnikov. He defined the topic as part of the "Understanding Israel" series of meetings of the "Beytenu Olami" project, where various specialists and residents of the country help to understand how Israeli society, the state of Israel, and Jewish life within it are structured. Levi…
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