Hebrew → English transcript

The admiration there is for Yinon Magal is insane. By the way Yinon

Magal is a force of nature. Explain it to me.

A force of nature, that is what you call a secular Jew who served in

Sayeret Matkal, and there he was a commander or something. After that he

rolled around the world, got to Buddha, to all kinds of foreign jobs in the world,

and found his way back to Judaism. No, but have you ever seen

a phenomenon where Haredim idolize a media figure like Yinon

Magal?

Have you ever seen Haredim who idolize the secular guy called

Menachem Begin?

You were not around in that period. Back then, I and a bit before me,

would go to hear Menachem Begin… wherever he just spoke they flocked.

Haredim?

Oh wow, wow, wow, wow, the most Haredi people in the world. Even

though Menachem Begin’s father was the first fence- breaker who desecrated

Shabbat in Brisk. Menachem Begin came from the city of Brisk. Got it?

But he spoke words like “with God’s help,” “with the help of Heaven,”

he spoke nationalism. The Haredi public is not nationalist.