Jerusalem Report

The generation game

Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett’s youth and energy have won him supporters from outside of his own base of settlers and the right wing.

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Photo by: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90
If gritty kibbutzniks defined the founding generation of Israelis, Naftali Bennett, the new leader of the Bayit Yehudi party, could be seen as a prototype of the modern state: young, clean-cut, veteran of an elite IDF combat unit and selfmade millionaire.

At 40 years old, Bennett will be one of the youngest MKs in the 19th Knesset, and the Bayit Yehudi list has the youngest average of any election list: The average age of the top 15 Bayit Yehudi candidates is 48, as compared to the 56 years for the Likud-Beytenu’s opening 15.

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