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Related: About this forumArdent atheist - and staunch Zionist
One of Israel's most famous lawyers, Yoram Sheftel is a strong advocate for Zionism - and a total atheist. A look into his unique worldview.
By Shimon Cohen
First Publish: 5/3/2016, 9:28 AM
Lambasted in the late 1980s for representing John Demjanjuk, the man accused of being the Treiblinka death camps notorious Ivan the Terrible, Sheftel became one of Israels most successful and despised attorneys.
Today, Sheftel is the host of a weekly talk radio show. Expressing staunchly conservative, pro-Zionist political views and known for his often creative slurs ridiculing the Israeli left, Sheftels show has often been compared to American talk radio giants like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Mark Levin.
Sheftel revels in on-air drama, arguing often passionately with callers, particularly those affiliated with the left. Referring to the Israeli Labor Party as the red rag and Mahmoud Abbas as Abu Adolf Mazen, his rhetoric has won him large numbers of both supporters and detractors.
Along with his strongly Zionist beliefs, however, Sheftel is also an ardent atheist. While some see his Jewish identity and atheism as an inherent contradiction, Sheftel sees no inconsistency in his views.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/211689#.VyjSU5X2b5o
LeftishBrit
(41,212 posts)And indeed many Israeli politicians nowadays are completely non-religious. The Jewish religious right have power in Israel disproportionate to their actual numbers, because the almost-pure proportional representation system means that the governing coalitions are often dependent on very small religious parties.
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(82,333 posts)This guy, politically, strikes me as off the rails.