"Fix Ben Gvir's Damages"

Former Knesset member Michael Ben Ari and right-wing activist Baruch Merzel, who were one of the founders of the Jewish Power Party, are expected to hold a re-establishment of their party this Thursday after they claim the party’s chairman, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir cannot be part of it.

Three lectures are expected at the conference: The right-wing activist named Ezekiel Hasson will discuss the establishment of a new party. Former MK Michael Ben Ari will talk about “Why they established Jewish power and did not join an existing party”, Baruch Marzel will talk about “influencing from the inside or fighting outside – when will the right government rise”.

“There is no news here,” Marzel told “first source,” “we are constantly working to rehabilitate the damages Itamar has done, to promote true Jewish power in Rabbi Kahana’s way,” Marzel said.

About a month before the last Knesset elections, Marzel and Ben Ari announced that they were not part of a Jewish power party and did not support the unification of ‘religious Zionism’ and ‘Jewish power’ lists led by Ben Gvir. The two then announced that they would consider the establishment of a new movement and even consulted on the issue with Rabbi Dov Lior. Shortly after the report, Ben Gvir published a letter to activists describing the chain of events, from his point of view, saying “Let’s start from the beginning: The publication was a disgruntled active entrepreneur in a movement that required being embedded in third place as Baruch’s representative, And did not make the decision of the traffic management that he was inappropriate and unworthy of serving as a Knesset member and since then the activist decided to try to ‘burn the club’ and hurt every possible way in the movement”. “For the body of things,” writes Ben Gvir, “indeed my friends Baruch Marzel and Michael Ben Ari are no longer active. I really appreciate them and thank them very much.Thirty years I followed them in the fire and in the water and they have many rights and I wish them long and life”.

At first, those who thought that the two’s retirement letter from Jewish power were merely a pre-coordinated media step designed to portray Ben Gvir as more moderate before entering the Netanyahu government. Even after the election, Ben Gvir attended the memorial to Rabbi Kahana, but made it clear before his arrival and also during his speech that he did not think that Rabbi Kahana’s theory was correct and that he opposed parts of it. On the other hand, the chairman of the High Court of Guppstein stated that he was an assistant to Ben Gvir and did not retire from the movement.

Today, the same disagreement seems to be a real rift as some Jewish power founders seek to establish their own movement.