Moshe Zalman Feiglin (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה זַלְמָן פֶייגְּלִין; born 31 July 1962) is a far-right[1][2][3] Israeli politician and activist, and the leader of libertarian Zionist party Zehut. A member of Likud, he headed the Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction within the party, and represented Likud in the Knesset between 2013 and 2015.
Prior to becoming a Knesset member, Feiglin co-founded the Zo Artzeinu ("This is our Land") movement with Shmuel Sackett in 1993 to protest the Oslo Accords. On 8 August 1995, eighty intersections throughout the country were blocked in a massive act of non-violent civil disobedience against the Oslo process. As a result of his activities, Feiglin was sentenced to six months in prison in 1997 for sedition against the state by Israel's Supreme Court. The sentence was later commuted to community service.[1] In November 1996, Feiglin established the Manhigut Yehudit movement; it joined Likud in 2000, with Feiglin declaring that he would be a candidate for chairmanship of the party as a springboard for premiership of the State of Israel.
In early January 2015, Feiglin announced that he was leaving the Likud and forming his own party, after the Likud primaries the previous month.
Feiglin complained about efforts that were done to try to keep him out of Israel's parliament, the Knesset. He referred to alleged political corruption in the Likud primary and legal maneuvers Benjamin Netanyahu took in the past to move him down the party’s list, accusing the prime minister of trying to assassinate him politically.[4]
As a result of the above issues and timing, Feiglin did not form a new party for the Knesset elections in March, and instead decided to take his time to build a strong new party ("If we have to give up on the coming Knesset to build ourselves well and fundamentally, we will do so. We will take the time that we need to build ourselves in the proper and most exacting way.").[4][5] In July 2021, Feiglin returned to the Likud.[6]
Feiglin's former party Zehut was in favor of legalizing marijuana.[7]
^ ab"AFP: Anti-Arab hopeful irks Israel's Netanyahu". December 15, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-12-15.
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^ ab"Moshe Feiglin announces departure from Likud - Israel Elections - Jerusalem Post". www.jpost.com. 5 January 2015. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
^Ezra, Hezki (5 January 2015). "Moshe Feiglin Leaves Likud, Forms New Party". Israel National News. Arutz Sheva 7. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
^"Former Zehut Party head Moshe Feiglin announces return to Likud". www.jpost.com. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
^Kershner, Isabel (2019-04-05). "A Pro-Pot Candidate Could Prove Decisive in Israeli Election". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
Moshe Zalman Feiglin (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה זַלְמָן פֶייגְּלִין; born 31 July 1962) is a far-right Israeli politician and activist, and the leader of libertarian...
right-libertarian and nationalist political party in Israel founded in 2015 by MosheFeiglin. Its platform was centered around promoting individual liberty, including...
and Minister of Foreign Affairs Silvan Shalom, as well as candidates MosheFeiglin and Israel Katz. The previous leader of Likud was Ariel Sharon, then...
on 15 August 2007. Incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu defeated challengers MosheFeiglin and Danny Danon by a large majority. In 2006, legislative elections...
Netanyahu, Uzi Landau, Shaul Mofaz, Yisrael Katz, Silvan Shalom and MosheFeiglin. Landau and Mofaz later withdrew, the former in favour of Netanyahu...
leader Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as a lesser challenge from MosheFeiglin. MosheFeiglin, co-founder of the Manhigut movement Benjamin Netanyahu, incumbent...
(Hebrew: מנהיגות יהודית, "Jewish Leadership") is a movement started by MosheFeiglin and Shmuel Sackett to lead the State of Israel with, in their words...
Begin Blvd. in Jerusalem The organization draws upon the experience of MosheFeiglin and Zo Artzeinu, the organization that led mass protests against the...
with 47% of the primary vote, to 32% for Silvan Shalom and 15% for MosheFeiglin. In the March 2006 Knesset elections, Likud took the third place behind...
Shalom and MosheFeiglin were touted as potential candidates to oppose Netanyahu. However, Shalom declined to run. On 29 December 2011, Feiglin announced...
September 2019 elections with former Likud MK Oren Hazan, Zehut leader MosheFeiglin, and New Right leader Ayelet Shaked. Despite initially partnering with...
is running on a platform of women's leadership and gender equality. MosheFeiglin of Zehut announced on 13 December 2019 that his party would not run...
laws, true laws." Slonim is a relative of the far-right politician MosheFeiglin. 11 August 2015. "Jewish Extremist Meir Ettinger to be released from...
running against Netanyahu for the leadership of the party, thus leaving MosheFeiglin as Netanyahu's sole competitor. During the election day Netanyahu repeatedly...
contributed to the tension between Prime Minister Moshe Sharett, who often opposed Sharon's raids, and Moshe Dayan, who had become increasingly ambivalent...
In May 2014, IJV called on the Canadian government to deny entry of MosheFeiglin, Deputy Minister of the Israeli Knesset, because of his allegedly racist...
intention to destroy Gaza. Far-right politician and former Knesset member MosheFeiglin said: "There is one and only solution, which is to completely destroy...
In 1998, Sackett co-founded Manhigut Yehudit with long-time partner MosheFeiglin. Sackett was born in the United States, and studied at Touro College...
The Times of Israel. 1 January 2015. "MosheFeiglin leaving Likkud". Jerusalem Post. 5 January 2015. "Feiglin not running in election". Jerusalem Post...
December 2014 that he would not stand for the party's leadership. MK MosheFeiglin withdrew his candidacy on 18 December 2014, after the Likud court ruled...
factions of the Joint List. The Zehut Party, under the leadership of MosheFeiglin, was founded in 2015 for the purpose of running in the Knesset elections...
disobedience on a large scale. Following the Oslo Accords in the early 1990s, MosheFeiglin and Shmuel Sackett founded Zo Artzeinu (Hebrew: זו ארצנו, This is our...
from the Knesset in May 2012. Earlier, Netanyahu defeated his rival MosheFeiglin, winning 77% of the vote in the primaries for the Likud leadership held...
defended his comments, stating that he was responding to comments made by MosheFeiglin in the Israeli Knesset in which he called for the "complete destruction...
refused by the Lebanese government. Former Israeli Member of Knesset MosheFeiglin hailed the tragedy as a gift from God, celebrating the incident and...
also organized rallies in support of right-wing Israeli politician MosheFeiglin and Dutch politician and well-known Islam critic Geert Wilders of the...
included Netanyahu's economic advisor Avi Simhon, far-right former MK MosheFeiglin, and former MK Ayoob Kara. A Likud party committee moved the minority...
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