On this week’s Unholy podcast (Keshet), co-host Yonit Levi ventures that “the charedim have moved to the right. “Well, if you listen to the rhetoric of their leaders, Gafni, Deri et al, they do indeed dutifully talk about the importance of the ‘full-right’ government. But here’s the big news — the old terms of ‘left’ and ‘right’ barely apply in Israel anymore. And as for the charedim, they are socially and economically ‘full left’. Or anarchist-capitalists. You decide.

By what definition of ‘right-wing’ does a political group demand massive hand-outs from the state? That’s pretty lefty, in the old Soviet way of thinking (as is a kleptocracy, which is really what they represent these days). On the other hand, the number of criminal convictions, indictments and investigations into fraud among the charedi politicians (including in local government) is fairly........

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