Far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich and lawmaker Tzvi Succot preach war and expulsion despite refusing meaningful military service themselves, while their messianic vision for the West Bank threatens to drag Israel toward catastrophe

Tzvi Succot, the big hero, who came, accompanied by Israel Defense Forces soldiers, to shatter a monument in the West Bank village of Madamah, did not serve in the army for even one day.