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Joel Rosenberg: Who Will Be Israel’s Next Prime Minister? (Part 2) | The Rosenberg Report

April 30, 2026 | 22:41

Joel Rosenberg: Who Will Be Israel’s Next Prime Minister? (Part 2) | The Rosenberg Report
Naftali Bennett joins Joel Rosenberg to discuss the next prime minister of Israel.
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The Rosenberg Report | Joel Rosenberg: Who Will Be Israel’s Next Prime Minister? (Part 2) | The Rosenberg Report | April 30, 2026
  • Tonight on the rosenberg report as the cease fire
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  • With iran holds,
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  • Talk of israel's next elections is everywhere,
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  • Once and possibly future, prime minister naftali bennett
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  • Forges a new political alliance to create a new political party
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  • With centrist former prime minister yair lapid.
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  • And some polls show bennett now leading the nation's largest
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  • Political bloc.
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  • Yet evangelicals know so little about him.
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  • Who is he?
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  • What are his value? what is his vision
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  • For the future of israel after the war?
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  • What's his message to evangelical christians?
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  • And what makes him different
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  • Than current prime minister benjamin netanyahu?
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  • Tonight, part two of our exclusive conversation
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  • With a man who is bibi's biggest threat, its former prime
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  • Minister, naftali bennett. up close and personal.
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  • And it all starts right here, right now.
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  • On the rosenberg report.
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  • Will naftali bennett
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  • Resume his role as prime minister of israel?
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  • He was prime minister when he removed
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  • When he knocked off, as it were.
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  • Politically, his mentor,
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  • Benjamin netanyahu, several years ago.
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  • But then,
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  • Netanyahu and his forces regathered, regrouped, came back
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  • And were able to remove naftali bennett and his team.
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  • And obviously, netanyahu, is reigning right now.
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  • And netanyahu was elected first as prime minister in 1996.
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  • So he's, he served in and out of office.
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  • Netanyahu has for 30 years.
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  • And so the question
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  • As we head into the fall, into october, into another round of
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  • Elections, the first elections here in israel in four years,
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  • Is netanyahu and his team going to be able to muster
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  • Another coalition, or is the young upstart,
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  • The one time protege of mentor netanyahu?
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  • Is naftali bennett coming back to power?
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  • And if so, who is he and what is his vision for the future?
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  • What is his vision for relations in the region?
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  • And with questions.
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  • Welcome to the rosenberg report.
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  • Good evening. and it's great to have you with us.
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  • So much going on in the middle east right now.
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  • But we want to continue, with our with part
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  • Two of our exclusive interview with naftali bennett.
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  • As you heard last week, he's in he is running.
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  • He announced it right here on this show.
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  • But i got to ask you first.
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  • Everybody wants to know you're running.
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  • You're running in 26, right?
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  • Yes, yes, i am, running.
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  • And my intent is to win,
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  • Become
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  • Israel's next prime minister, unite israel,
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  • And then bring in the best era israel has ever
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  • Seen of growth, of security and of unity, of unity.
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  • It's going to be an israeli renaissance.
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  • So we're kind of watching to see, you know, so,
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  • The people, evangelicals
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  • Are starting to wonder, so who is this guy?
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  • We've heard of him before. we saw him before.
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  • But now that he is running and now that is actually
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  • The latest polling.
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  • Some of it shows that naftali bennett could, in fact,
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  • Put together a coalition
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  • To be the next prime minister of israel.
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  • And, you know, will that hold till the fall?
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  • All that's unknown right now.
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  • But but in many ways, naftali bennett himself is unknown
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  • To most evangelicals. right.
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  • Evangelicals have known and appreciated,
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  • Benjamin netanyahu for
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  • 30 years because netanyahu has been
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  • Actively courting and cultivating these relationships
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  • At the top with senior evangelical leaders
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  • In the united states and around the world,
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  • But also with grassroots,
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  • Evangelicals and, and other christians.
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  • And naftali bennett is a little bit
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  • More of a, you know, he's the newcomer in many ways.
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  • He was the former defense minister of israel.
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  • He was the former education minister.
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  • He's he's got a lot of experience.
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  • He's also an entrepreneur who started and sold a company.
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  • Obviously, he's a he's an experienced cabinet minister.
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  • He was the prime minister and he,
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  • You know, back in the day, he was not only a combat
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  • Soldier, but he was in israel's most elite combat unit,
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  • A unit, a secretive unit, top secret unit.
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  • Interestingly enough, that the exact same unit
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  • Decades before that, that bibi netanyahu had served in as well.
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  • And so, he's he's an interesting guy.
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  • Now, the rosenberg report does not take a position.
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  • Do we support bennett?
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  • Do we support netanyahu? no.
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  • Our goal is to help you understand who these men are
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  • And others across the israeli spectrum,
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  • Political leaders,
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  • Religious leaders, business leaders, all kinds of, leaders
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  • At the grassroots and at the, at the highest, levels.
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  • So that's our goal here.
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  • We're not promoting bennett.
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  • We're not.
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  • And we've asked multiple times
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  • For interviews with the prime minister
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  • Netanyahu and hope to get one soon.
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  • Why don't we be praying for that as well?
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  • But let me let me pick up.
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  • Well, let's pick up with our interview
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  • That we started last week
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  • And continue the rest of our exclusive interview
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  • With once and possibly future prime minister of israel,
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  • Naftali bennett.
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  • You talk about people coming here.
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  • Let's take a moment,
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  • As an aside, but it's important to our audience, evangelicals,
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  • You, you and i have talked about,
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  • Your outreach to evangelicals over the last couple years.
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  • In addition to speaking at an event that i planned.
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  • You spoke at liberty university, the largest evangelical
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  • University in the world. got a huge, set of standing ovations.
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  • And we've also talked about the need.
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  • I think it's a need,
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  • For an ambassador to the christian world, given
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  • That they're not many friends of israel in this dark moment.
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  • We'll talk about that as well.
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  • What do you want from the evangelicals
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  • And from christians more broadly?
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  • And what do you want to do as prime minister
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  • That might be different from what's been done in the past?
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  • Well, i want embrace our friends.
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  • I want to embrace the people that you represent.
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  • I will appoint an ambassador
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  • To to the, evangelical world because it's our friends.
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  • You want to embrace our strongest friends.
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  • Our best friends. that's what you want to do.
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  • I would also ensure that we all respect
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  • The rights and and dignity of all christians.
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  • And by the way, of all faiths, israel is a is a democracy,
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  • A liberal democracy which respects,
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  • The freedom of religion for everyone.
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  • And yes, we're a jewish state, you know, you know, my,
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  • Political opinions on the land of israel.
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  • I'm, vehemently against,
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  • Giving up even one centimeter of our land to our enemies.
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  • And never.
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  • I'm tough on that, but i see a very advanced and and, modern,
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  • Vision for
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  • Israel and embracing our best friends.
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  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report,
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  • More of my exclusive conversation
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  • With the once
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  • And possibly future israeli prime minister naftali bennett.
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  • How would he lead israel differently than bibi netanyahu?
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  • And what's his message to evangelical christians?
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  • Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
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  • Right after the break.
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  • Right after the break.
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  • So let's talk about,
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  • You're the only religious jewish people
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  • Wearing, kosher prime minister in the history of modern israel.
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  • I mean, that is really an extraordinary thing.
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  • And i'm fascinated with how tough you've been
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  • On the religious jewish,
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  • Especially ultra-orthodox, who are saying i will absolutely
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  • Not serve in the military, won't send my sons.
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  • I won't do it. we're not going to.
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  • You can't make us and you have to give us billions of dollars,
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  • To fund our world.
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  • You've been i i'm not sure there are people
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  • That are tougher on this than you.
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  • You've served in elite military units here. so?
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  • So why? what?
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  • What is your message to, the ultra-orthodox?
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  • And you've also come up with a policy that you've described.
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  • We're going to take that money away.
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  • Why are you being so tough on them?
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  • And what is your vision for the future?
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  • We need soldiers.
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  • My son yoni is a soldier in the same commando unit
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  • That i fought. he's a fighter.
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  • And fighting in, against.
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  • He's training younger kids. okay.
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  • We need fighters.
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  • And by the way, my son is three of.
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  • I know they serve. they've served.
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  • And they're serving now.
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  • And you should be a proud israeli.
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  • I am, i am the jewish.
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  • The torah.
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  • And i'm a man of faith.
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  • I believe in our faith.
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  • The torah teaches us
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  • That the epitome of judaism is fighting for your nation.
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  • Joshua was a fighter.
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  • Abraham was a fighter.
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  • Gideon was a fighter.
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  • King david was a fighter.
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  • Never in the history of israel was there ever an idea
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  • Where when enemies are coming over,
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  • You don't fight, but you go learn torah.
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  • That that doesn't make sense.
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  • It's never been so.
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  • I learn torah every shabbat.
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  • I learn to read, i learn.
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  • I love, the torah, but
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  • You have to fight for israel and you have to go out.
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  • And so you're pointing is not.
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  • But it's i love the torah and therefore,
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  • Like i am like, therefore we have to defend our people.
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  • A jew, an israeli jew is not complete
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  • If he does not serve his country in the military.
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  • Well.
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  • Now you've taken that principle and now you've
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  • Turned it into a policy,
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  • For reserving and for people serving in the military.
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  • So what is that?
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  • Because i think that's interesting,
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  • Not because it's american evangelicals
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  • Are going to benefit from this.
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  • But i just think we're trying to get an insight
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  • Into who you are,
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  • Especially as you rising in the polls right now,
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  • Certain polls that are showing you
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  • That you would be the next prime minister. so we'll see.
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  • We don't take a position on this, but, tbn but
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  • So what is it?
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  • What is your policy?
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  • What do you want to do to take all those billions of dollars
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  • That are going to fund basically welfare,
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  • For the ultra-orthodox?
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  • You want to convert that into what?
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  • So we have a crazy situation
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  • Where a third of the jewish babies born
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  • Right now are ultra-orthodox, which is fine,
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  • But they're we're subsidizing it.
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  • They're taught and educated not to work and not to serve.
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  • So we have this huge welfare state,
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  • An artificial welfare state that is only existing
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  • Because of my taxes and everyone's taxes over.
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  • Here, which are high. very high. that's crazy.
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  • So here's what we're going to do.
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  • We're going to stop immediately.
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  • All of the money that's funding this, this construction.
  • 00:10:55.033 --> 00:10:59.671
  • And we're going to take that.
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  • Money of
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  • Of building the ultra-orthodox
  • 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:03.108
  • Community at the expense of others.
  • 00:11:03.108 --> 00:11:04.509
  • Of not serving and not working no more.
  • 00:11:04.509 --> 00:11:07.879
  • They want to serve, and they can benefit.
  • 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:09.347
  • You, serve you benefit.
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  • You work, you benefit.
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  • We will no longer fund people who don't go out and work
  • 00:11:12.884 --> 00:11:16.554
  • Over those, billions and billions of shekels
  • 00:11:16.554 --> 00:11:20.959
  • And move them to those who serve,
  • 00:11:20.959 --> 00:11:23.294
  • Especially the fighters, especially the reservists.
  • 00:11:23.294 --> 00:11:27.198
  • And in what ways?
  • 00:11:27.198 --> 00:11:28.299
  • Like in terms of they can use that money to do what?
  • 00:11:28.299 --> 00:11:30.535
  • Housing, childcare, tax benefits.
  • 00:11:30.535 --> 00:11:34.372
  • Okay. wow.
  • 00:11:34.372 --> 00:11:35.774
  • Well, i think you're getting some attention.
  • 00:11:35.774 --> 00:11:37.642
  • I would, i would call it an english the fair deal.
  • 00:11:37.642 --> 00:11:41.446
  • It's only fair that if you serve, if you work,
  • 00:11:41.446 --> 00:11:44.415
  • You get a benefit as well.
  • 00:11:44.983 --> 00:11:46.217
  • Why would you reward
  • 00:11:46.217 --> 00:11:48.386
  • Those who are dodging service and not work
  • 00:11:48.386 --> 00:11:51.823
  • In choosing to not work?
  • 00:11:51.823 --> 00:11:53.091
  • I'm talking about a 25 year old or 30 year old man
  • 00:11:53.091 --> 00:11:56.995
  • Who gets up in the morning and doesn't go to work, and i
  • 00:11:56.995 --> 00:11:59.564
  • And we have to fund him.
  • 00:11:59.564 --> 00:12:00.498
  • I'm talking about an 18 year old, healthy
  • 00:12:00.498 --> 00:12:04.102
  • Young man, the age of my son that can go serve in the army.
  • 00:12:04.102 --> 00:12:07.939
  • And instead he's not.
  • 00:12:07.939 --> 00:12:09.607
  • Why should we fund that?
  • 00:12:09.607 --> 00:12:11.776
  • Just doesn't make sense.
  • 00:12:11.776 --> 00:12:13.912
  • President trump,
  • 00:12:13.912 --> 00:12:15.547
  • If you become the next prime minister, you're going to have,
  • 00:12:15.547 --> 00:12:18.449
  • At least two years with the president.
  • 00:12:18.449 --> 00:12:20.618
  • What is your assessment of him?
  • 00:12:20.618 --> 00:12:21.953
  • What's your relationship with him?
  • 00:12:21.953 --> 00:12:23.454
  • How would you want to work together,
  • 00:12:23.454 --> 00:12:25.690
  • Over these next few years? and to do what.
  • 00:12:25.690 --> 00:12:27.659
  • I think president trump has shown himself
  • 00:12:27.659 --> 00:12:31.830
  • As a huge friend of israel and the jewish people
  • 00:12:31.830 --> 00:12:35.466
  • And as a leader with courage.
  • 00:12:35.466 --> 00:12:37.802
  • And i'll tell you why.
  • 00:12:37.802 --> 00:12:39.504
  • All presidents have always said we won't allow iran to become
  • 00:12:39.504 --> 00:12:42.941
  • Nuclear.
  • 00:12:42.941 --> 00:12:44.008
  • But their actions didn't support the words,
  • 00:12:44.008 --> 00:12:46.778
  • And they allowed iran to, progress.
  • 00:12:46.778 --> 00:12:49.981
  • To the point where they had
  • 00:12:49.981 --> 00:12:51.082
  • 11 nuclear bombs worth of highly enriched uranium just.
  • 00:12:51.082 --> 00:12:55.453
  • You know, that's exactly. right. two months ago.
  • 00:12:55.453 --> 00:12:57.322
  • So now, president trump did not want this war. no.
  • 00:12:57.322 --> 00:13:00.959
  • He hoped that he could reach a deal
  • 00:13:00.959 --> 00:13:03.761
  • By amassing force, creating leverage in tehran.
  • 00:13:03.761 --> 00:13:07.298
  • Look, we can have a deal
  • 00:13:07.298 --> 00:13:09.033
  • Where you dismantle your nuclear program.
  • 00:13:09.033 --> 00:13:11.469
  • You have no right to have nuclear weapons,
  • 00:13:11.469 --> 00:13:14.505
  • Especially as a country who talks about genocide.
  • 00:13:14.505 --> 00:13:17.775
  • Yeah, the only country in the world,
  • 00:13:17.775 --> 00:13:18.977
  • I think, that just says we're going to wipe it.
  • 00:13:18.977 --> 00:13:20.678
  • But if you don't, i'm going to have to go to war.
  • 00:13:20.678 --> 00:13:22.580
  • They didn't believe him. and they didn't.
  • 00:13:22.580 --> 00:13:24.582
  • You know, he sent jared.
  • 00:13:24.582 --> 00:13:25.884
  • He sent, wyckoff.
  • 00:13:25.884 --> 00:13:28.186
  • They came, in good faith.
  • 00:13:28.186 --> 00:13:30.755
  • And sometimes at the beginning of negotiation, you see, there's
  • 00:13:30.755 --> 00:13:34.058
  • There's no deal.
  • 00:13:34.058 --> 00:13:35.093
  • They called him up and said it's a nonstarter.
  • 00:13:35.093 --> 00:13:38.696
  • So he he acted.
  • 00:13:39.063 --> 00:13:41.532
  • So, you know, everyone attacking him.
  • 00:13:41.532 --> 00:13:43.735
  • I don't understand that.
  • 00:13:43.735 --> 00:13:45.103
  • They're attacking someone who delivered
  • 00:13:45.103 --> 00:13:48.506
  • On his very promise to not allow iran go nuclear.
  • 00:13:48.506 --> 00:13:51.643
  • That's that's the exactly what it means.
  • 00:13:51.643 --> 00:13:54.612
  • If you say you're not going nuclear,
  • 00:13:54.612 --> 00:13:56.414
  • You have to do what he did and you did it.
  • 00:13:56.414 --> 00:13:58.316
  • We have sound bites from him back to 1980
  • 00:13:58.316 --> 00:14:01.519
  • Warning of the iranian threat
  • 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:02.887
  • And of of of weakness in washington and weakness
  • 00:14:02.887 --> 00:14:05.790
  • In an american president at that time.
  • 00:14:05.790 --> 00:14:07.158
  • No, jimmy carter not taking decisive action.
  • 00:14:07.158 --> 00:14:09.661
  • And so he's been pretty consistent.
  • 00:14:09.661 --> 00:14:11.429
  • Yes, but i think you're right.
  • 00:14:11.429 --> 00:14:12.830
  • And i appreciate both as an american and an israeli,
  • 00:14:12.830 --> 00:14:15.566
  • He doesn't have an itchy trigger finger like. he, he.
  • 00:14:15.566 --> 00:14:18.169
  • He, he
  • 00:14:18.169 --> 00:14:19.170
  • Opportunities here to negotiate.
  • 00:14:19.804 --> 00:14:21.372
  • It's clear that president trump hates war
  • 00:14:21.372 --> 00:14:24.509
  • But understands that acting now
  • 00:14:24.509 --> 00:14:28.713
  • Prevented a situation where later on we could not act
  • 00:14:28.713 --> 00:14:32.750
  • Because iran would have a shield of ballistic missiles,
  • 00:14:32.750 --> 00:14:36.487
  • And later on, a nuclear shield.
  • 00:14:36.487 --> 00:14:38.356
  • So he acted before they became immune.
  • 00:14:38.356 --> 00:14:42.327
  • Mazing.
  • 00:14:42.560 --> 00:14:44.195
  • I think the last question i want to ask you is about
  • 00:14:44.195 --> 00:14:46.898
  • What's going on in the united states, both on the extreme left
  • 00:14:46.898 --> 00:14:50.435
  • And extreme right, coming after not only israel,
  • 00:14:50.435 --> 00:14:54.405
  • But jews, and trying to attack the christians who love israel.
  • 00:14:54.405 --> 00:14:58.142
  • Andrew. right.
  • 00:14:58.142 --> 00:14:58.943
  • This is a firestorm, this building.
  • 00:14:58.943 --> 00:15:00.311
  • So let's start with the left.
  • 00:15:00.311 --> 00:15:02.680
  • Vice president kamala harris said that israel is, was,
  • 00:15:02.680 --> 00:15:05.783
  • Dragging
  • 00:15:06.050 --> 00:15:07.485
  • President trump of the united states into a war
  • 00:15:07.485 --> 00:15:09.120
  • That we didn't need that that we didn't want,
  • 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:11.489
  • Senator bernie sanders not only added to that, but
  • 00:15:11.489 --> 00:15:14.425
  • He tried to persuade the united states senate to cancel,
  • 00:15:14.425 --> 00:15:19.530
  • Arms coming to
  • 00:15:19.864 --> 00:15:21.265
  • For us to defend ourselves in this war.
  • 00:15:21.265 --> 00:15:24.469
  • What?
  • 00:15:24.469 --> 00:15:25.403
  • And then, of course, you got tucker carlson
  • 00:15:25.403 --> 00:15:26.871
  • And candace owens and meghan kelly.
  • 00:15:26.871 --> 00:15:28.373
  • So left and right, what is going on?
  • 00:15:28.373 --> 00:15:31.943
  • And what do we do about it?
  • 00:15:31.943 --> 00:15:33.711
  • Well, we're seeing,
  • 00:15:33.711 --> 00:15:36.647
  • Lunacy,
  • 00:15:36.647 --> 00:15:39.384
  • In scale, lunacy and scale.
  • 00:15:39.384 --> 00:15:41.819
  • We're seeing just so many influencers
  • 00:15:41.819 --> 00:15:45.556
  • With conspiracy theories.
  • 00:15:46.124 --> 00:15:48.426
  • And the reality is
  • 00:15:48.426 --> 00:15:51.396
  • That israel is a democracy
  • 00:15:51.396 --> 00:15:54.632
  • Is a is the best ally america can have.
  • 00:15:54.632 --> 00:15:58.536
  • And nato's not helping.
  • 00:15:58.536 --> 00:16:00.304
  • Imagine for a moment we don't exist.
  • 00:16:00.304 --> 00:16:02.473
  • Okay.
  • 00:16:02.473 --> 00:16:03.641
  • And you've got the middle east festering with, jihadists
  • 00:16:03.641 --> 00:16:07.678
  • And al-qaeda type and isis and hezbollah.
  • 00:16:07.678 --> 00:16:11.182
  • We know what will happen.
  • 00:16:11.749 --> 00:16:13.551
  • They're going to hit the twin towers.
  • 00:16:13.551 --> 00:16:15.486
  • 911 you were in new york.
  • 00:16:15.486 --> 00:16:17.088
  • I was in manhattan when it happened.
  • 00:16:17.088 --> 00:16:19.257
  • I saw those buildings on fire.
  • 00:16:19.257 --> 00:16:21.392
  • That's what happens when you say the middle east isn't
  • 00:16:21.392 --> 00:16:25.096
  • Our problem. we don't care.
  • 00:16:25.096 --> 00:16:27.065
  • So the radical islamists will come
  • 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:30.835
  • To the big satan, to manhattan, to california, to america.
  • 00:16:30.835 --> 00:16:35.173
  • But with nuclear ballistic missiles.
  • 00:16:35.173 --> 00:16:39.210
  • And by having israel,
  • 00:16:39.710 --> 00:16:42.680
  • You do not need to send
  • 00:16:42.680 --> 00:16:46.350
  • Hundreds of thousands of boots on the ground, because we
  • 00:16:46.350 --> 00:16:49.821
  • Israelis are 10 million boots on the ground.
  • 00:16:49.821 --> 00:16:53.257
  • I always hear this aircraft carrier called israel.
  • 00:16:53.257 --> 00:16:57.095
  • It's not going anywhere. we're here to stay.
  • 00:16:57.095 --> 00:16:59.497
  • We're not asking.
  • 00:16:59.497 --> 00:17:01.065
  • And we never asked america to fight for us.
  • 00:17:01.065 --> 00:17:04.102
  • We're fighting right now in the air.
  • 00:17:04.102 --> 00:17:05.803
  • Together we can defend ourselves.
  • 00:17:05.803 --> 00:17:08.439
  • We do need america to have our back.
  • 00:17:08.439 --> 00:17:13.211
  • And here i want to say thank you.
  • 00:17:13.211 --> 00:17:15.713
  • I want to say thank you because you talked about it.
  • 00:17:15.713 --> 00:17:18.916
  • Tucker carlson and bernie sanders.
  • 00:17:18.916 --> 00:17:21.853
  • But there are so many good american patriots
  • 00:17:21.853 --> 00:17:26.524
  • Who love israel, who stand for israel.
  • 00:17:26.524 --> 00:17:29.460
  • And through you as, as their messenger.
  • 00:17:29.460 --> 00:17:32.630
  • I won't be one of them.
  • 00:17:32.630 --> 00:17:34.065
  • Yeah.
  • 00:17:34.065 --> 00:17:35.166
  • Well, i want to say to to all our friends out there,
  • 00:17:35.166 --> 00:17:37.702
  • We cannot thank you enough.
  • 00:17:38.302 --> 00:17:40.071
  • We appreciate that you are our big brother.
  • 00:17:40.071 --> 00:17:43.741
  • And every israeli appreciates
  • 00:17:44.375 --> 00:17:47.612
  • The the, courage and the generosity
  • 00:17:47.612 --> 00:17:51.415
  • Of the american people and of the american president.
  • 00:17:51.415 --> 00:17:55.520
  • Mr. prime minister, praying for you.
  • 00:17:55.520 --> 00:17:57.155
  • Thank you. stay safe on the campaign trail.
  • 00:17:57.155 --> 00:17:59.023
  • Thanks for the time on the rosenberg report. thank you sir.
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  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report,
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  • How are naftali bennett and benjamin netanyahu?
  • 00:18:04.695 --> 00:18:07.765
  • The same. how are they different?
  • 00:18:07.765 --> 00:18:10.001
  • And how should christians pray
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  • As israelis head towards elections in october?
  • 00:18:11.836 --> 00:18:15.573
  • Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
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  • Right after the break.
  • 00:18:19.410 --> 00:18:21.994
  • Right after the break.
  • 00:18:21.994 --> 00:18:25.285
  • I'm grateful to naftali bennett for spending time
  • 00:18:26.286 --> 00:18:28.555
  • With us as he's opening up his campaign,
  • 00:18:28.555 --> 00:18:30.423
  • And i want to talk for a few moments.
  • 00:18:30.423 --> 00:18:32.358
  • Yeah, there's a lot going on,
  • 00:18:32.358 --> 00:18:33.593
  • Obviously, in the gulf and lebanon.
  • 00:18:33.593 --> 00:18:35.862
  • And but i want to take a moment and sort of assess,
  • 00:18:35.862 --> 00:18:39.465
  • Netanyahu's challenges and and bennett's challenges.
  • 00:18:40.500 --> 00:18:43.403
  • Okay.
  • 00:18:43.403 --> 00:18:44.237
  • These are two very strong leaders.
  • 00:18:44.237 --> 00:18:47.006
  • Netanyahu, of course, has been in the political game
  • 00:18:47.006 --> 00:18:50.143
  • For 30 years.
  • 00:18:50.143 --> 00:18:51.211
  • He and netanyahu first became prime minister in 1996.
  • 00:18:51.211 --> 00:18:55.014
  • That's 30 years ago now.
  • 00:18:55.014 --> 00:18:56.416
  • Obviously, he did not serve all 30 years,
  • 00:18:56.416 --> 00:18:58.551
  • But he served
  • 00:18:58.551 --> 00:18:59.786
  • Longer than any prime minister in the modern history of israel.
  • 00:18:59.786 --> 00:19:03.556
  • Okay.
  • 00:19:03.556 --> 00:19:04.257
  • And the guy that knocked him off
  • 00:19:04.257 --> 00:19:07.460
  • Of his political perch was naftali bennett.
  • 00:19:07.460 --> 00:19:10.496
  • Okay. so that's really interesting.
  • 00:19:10.496 --> 00:19:11.731
  • These two,
  • 00:19:11.731 --> 00:19:12.865
  • Because bennett, as i mentioned, is is a protege, right?
  • 00:19:12.865 --> 00:19:15.969
  • It was it was netanyahu recruited bennett to be
  • 00:19:15.969 --> 00:19:19.806
  • Netanyahu's chief of staff years ago. why?
  • 00:19:19.806 --> 00:19:22.809
  • Because bennett in many ways represents the way
  • 00:19:22.809 --> 00:19:26.613
  • Netanyahu thinks of the future of the
  • 00:19:26.613 --> 00:19:28.481
  • Of the political spectrum here in israel.
  • 00:19:28.481 --> 00:19:30.216
  • Bennett is significantly younger
  • 00:19:30.216 --> 00:19:32.518
  • Than netanyahu, about 20 years younger or so.
  • 00:19:32.518 --> 00:19:36.155
  • And so he really represents the future.
  • 00:19:36.155 --> 00:19:37.724
  • He is a right winger, bibi a right winger.
  • 00:19:37.724 --> 00:19:39.826
  • They have very, similar outlooks politically, ideologically.
  • 00:19:39.826 --> 00:19:44.364
  • But there is there's a lot of difference in tone and style.
  • 00:19:44.364 --> 00:19:47.433
  • So, bennett is positioning himself as i'm religious,
  • 00:19:47.433 --> 00:19:51.537
  • But i am not with the ultra-orthodox.
  • 00:19:52.338 --> 00:19:54.741
  • Bibi is not religious,
  • 00:19:54.741 --> 00:19:56.943
  • But he's doing all these giveaways to the ultra-orthodox.
  • 00:19:56.943 --> 00:20:00.580
  • Bennett is saying, i served in a military unit,
  • 00:20:00.580 --> 00:20:03.349
  • And i expect every israeli able
  • 00:20:03.349 --> 00:20:05.285
  • Bodied israelis to serve in the military.
  • 00:20:05.285 --> 00:20:07.086
  • Also, netanyahu is saying, i served in the military,
  • 00:20:07.086 --> 00:20:10.089
  • But i don't expect everybody to serve in the military.
  • 00:20:10.089 --> 00:20:12.659
  • And i'm not going to push hard, to require ultra-orthodox
  • 00:20:12.659 --> 00:20:16.629
  • To serve in the military
  • 00:20:16.629 --> 00:20:17.864
  • And in a country that's served for two and a half years in war.
  • 00:20:17.864 --> 00:20:21.467
  • Right.
  • 00:20:21.668 --> 00:20:22.869
  • And where many israeli soldiers are exhausted by this war,
  • 00:20:22.869 --> 00:20:26.739
  • Bennett is making a very strategic play.
  • 00:20:27.540 --> 00:20:31.077
  • To appeal to people who feel that netanyahu has sold them
  • 00:20:32.211 --> 00:20:36.349
  • Out. obviously, netanyahu does not see it that way.
  • 00:20:36.349 --> 00:20:39.485
  • And this is a clash of values.
  • 00:20:39.485 --> 00:20:41.454
  • It's a clash of vision,
  • 00:20:41.454 --> 00:20:43.156
  • And it's going to be on full display as we go forward.
  • 00:20:43.156 --> 00:20:46.392
  • Last point i want to make, and that is that,
  • 00:20:46.392 --> 00:20:49.128
  • Netanyahu is saying that he's going
  • 00:20:49.929 --> 00:20:51.931
  • To not only win this war against iran and hezbollah and hamas.
  • 00:20:51.931 --> 00:20:55.401
  • It's been hard.
  • 00:20:55.401 --> 00:20:56.035
  • It's been messy,
  • 00:20:56.035 --> 00:20:57.036
  • But he's winning it, and he's going to finish
  • 00:20:57.036 --> 00:20:58.504
  • The job, and then he's going to expand peace
  • 00:20:58.504 --> 00:21:00.673
  • Throughout the region.
  • 00:21:00.673 --> 00:21:03.009
  • Bennett didn't directly say that he could do a better job
  • 00:21:03.009 --> 00:21:07.046
  • At making peace than netanyahu, but that was implicit.
  • 00:21:07.046 --> 00:21:10.817
  • Not only in this conversation,
  • 00:21:10.817 --> 00:21:12.085
  • But other conversations i've had with him.
  • 00:21:12.085 --> 00:21:14.187
  • Bennett is saying, look, bibi served his time.
  • 00:21:14.187 --> 00:21:17.056
  • He did good things. he did some not so good things.
  • 00:21:17.056 --> 00:21:19.359
  • But it's time for change.
  • 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:20.593
  • It's time for a new direction internally domestic policy,
  • 00:21:20.593 --> 00:21:24.297
  • But also israel's foreign policy and israel's image
  • 00:21:24.297 --> 00:21:28.000
  • In the region.
  • 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:29.902
  • Bennett focusing on israel needs to be not
  • 00:21:29.902 --> 00:21:32.572
  • Seen as a pariah, as negative.
  • 00:21:32.572 --> 00:21:36.175
  • We need to be a building country,
  • 00:21:36.175 --> 00:21:37.844
  • A nation that builds and is a light to the nations.
  • 00:21:37.844 --> 00:21:40.847
  • How will that all play out?
  • 00:21:40.847 --> 00:21:42.582
  • How will those israeli voters react to all of this?
  • 00:21:42.582 --> 00:21:45.852
  • I don't know yet.
  • 00:21:45.852 --> 00:21:46.886
  • The polls are very tight right now.
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  • Bennett's ahead.
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  • In terms of being able to build a coalition, but i just don't.
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  • I can't tell you right now
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  • Exactly how this is going to play out,
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  • But, boy, we are going to be watching it closely.
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  • And that's our show for tonight.
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  • Thank you. so much for watching.
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  • Please keep praying for us over here.
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  • This is, these are challenging times.
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  • Pray for the safety of all,
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  • Those that are going to be running for office in the
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  • In our parliament, in the knesset, and,
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  • Of course, for prime minister.
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  • This is these are challenging times.
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  • So let's pray for safety and let's pray
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  • The lord would help us have a unity
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  • Once again in this country, as we have been so deeply divided,
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  • And of course, from victory over all of our enemies.
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  • Have a great week.
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  • Walk with the lord jesus christ
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  • And the power of the holy spirit.
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  • Care for others?
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  • Care for those who are less fortunate.
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  • Pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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  • Have a great week, and lord willing,
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  • I'll see you next week right here on the rosenberg report.
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