Speaking to Israel’s HOT TV channel, Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett admitted that he spent two years as a secular Jew.
“After I completed the punishing training course in the Sayeret Matkal (Reconnaissance Unit 269) unit and arrived at Officer Training School, I removed my yarmulke,” he said. “I wanted to be exposed to the secular world. It was something that attracted me a lot… For about two years I did not wear a yarmulke.”
Bennett credits his return to Torah observance to the anti-religious outburst that erupted after former Prime Minister Rabin’s assassination 1995.
Raised in San Francisco, Bennett influenced his parents to become observant when he returned from a religious kindergarten wearing a yarmulke and tzitzis.
{Matzav.com Israel News Bureau}
Hero a bit. Wear the kippah. They are the holy.
Gesture of knowing G-d is favored. Total Torah feels it well all day and all night. Even a head cover to sleep is health. Have more yireh.
its a minor infraction…just
And after the two years pepsi-cola kippah hidden all the way in the back.
I prefer this emes’ah yid over a strimel wearing NK or their sponsors. Who ever was his kindergarten teacher should be rewarded for influencing mr Bennett so much.
this is what happens in the tuma of the IDF, Bennet is the proof why it is assur to go in their army.
MN
you must not reprimand nor remind a baal tshuva his past.
Kol hakavod
To embrace yiddishkeit & live it pleasantly.
It’s still too close to yomim noraim to analyze him. Or expect the media to give more background to his hesboninoos,