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y co-opting the moderate have to realize that they have be-
Rabbi Yehuda Amital to come a fact of life, and that we
his Cabinet and opening a shall never return to Jenin and
dialogue with the Nation- Jericho." Or, presumably, Nablus
al Religious Party, Prime Minis- and Bethlehem, Ramallah, Kalk-
ter Shimon Peres is throwing iliya and Tulkarm, ue to follow
religious Zionists a lifeline back them into Yassir Arafat's arms
into the pragmatic world of de- by the end of the year.
mocratic politics.
Under the "historic alliance",
Rabbi Amital, head of the Har the NRP left foreign affairs and
Etzion yeshiva, is the inspiration defense to the likes of David Ben-
of Meimad, which ran on a plat- Gurion, Golda Meir and Moshe
form of land for peace in the 1988 Dayan.
elections, but failed to win a sin-
It concentrated its energies on
gle seat. It sat out the 1992 cam- keeping the Jewish state as Jew-
paign. He is the first Cabinet i sh as possible. That meant pre-
minister in modern Israel with s erving the monopoly of the
no base in the Knesset.
01 thodox rabbinate and exacting
By appointing him Minister as much of the taxpayers' money
Without Portfolio, Mr. Peres is as it could for its Zionist-Ortho-
signalling to anguished religious d ox schools and yeshivas. Its
Zionists, asking "Where did we c harter was the "status quo" in
go wrong?" after the assassina- matters of synagogue and state,
tion of Yitzhak Rabin, that there a balance it did not hesitate to tilt
is an alternative to the messian- when coalition bargaining offered
ic zeal of the Gush Emunim set- the opportunity.
tlement lobby. And by inviting
The NRP began to change af-
the NRP to support the Govern- te r the 1967 Six-Day War. Rab-
ment, if only from outside the b is and graduates of Jerusalem's
coalition, the prime minister is M ercaz Ha-Ray yeshiva, inspired
telling the party that it is not too b y the writings of Avraham
late to revive the "historic al- Yi tzhak Hacohen Kook, hailed Is-
liance" under which NRP minis- r ael's spectacular victory as an
ters served in every Labour-led a ct of divine provid' !nee. Rabbi
government from 1948 to 1977. Kook, Ashkenazi clief rabbi of
It will not be easy for the NRP, B ritish-ruled Palestine from 1921
which campaigned as the party to 1935, preached that the return
of Greater Israel in the last two to the Land of Israel would has-
elections. But its leader, Zevulun te n the coming of the Messiah.
Hammer, took a first step this Hi s disciples saw the conquest of
week by acknowledging that the th e West Bank, the biblical Judea
Oslo agreements with the Pales- an d Samaria, as a message from
tine Liberation Organization are G od.
here to stay.
During the 1970s, they rapid-
"While we still do not support ly took over the party's growth
the agreements," he said, "we po ints in the schools, yeshivas
and B'nei Akiva youth move-
Eric Silver is a senior writer for
ment. Rabbi Yehuda Ben-Meir,
the Jerusalem Report.
an NRP deputy minister in Mr
.