{"id":563582,"date":"2026-07-28T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563582\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:46:10","slug":"we-need-to-finish-the-job-the-town-where-itamar-ben-gvir-ranks-second-only-to-the-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563582\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Need to Finish the Job&#8217;: The Town Where Itamar Ben-Gvir Ranks Second Only to the Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">The ultra-Orthodox parties used to command overwhelming support in Kfar Chabad until Itamar Ben-Gvir came along. His list topped the polls here in the past two elections and seems poised to make an even stronger showing in October. A trip to the most political &#8216;apolitical&#8217; town in Israel<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">The Chabad Lubavitch outreach movement insists it is apolitical, and there is some truth to that. Unlike other Hassidic and ultra-Orthodox sects, it is not represented by any political party in the Knesset. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ultra-Orthodox parties used to command overwhelming support in Kfar Chabad until Itamar Ben-Gvir came along. His list&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,110450,85,46,58195,954,837,43,12185,22869],"class_list":["post-563582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-chabad","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-israeli-politics","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-news","tag-ultra-orthodox","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}