The goal: a quiet coup. The method: conquering power centers from within

Yair Nehorai argues in an opinion piece that the 'Bnei David' pre-military academy in Eli is designed to train a 'messianic army' that will carry out a quiet religious coup in Israel by conquering power centers, and that the battle over its funding is a decisive struggle for democracy.

Yair Nehorai argues in an opinion piece that the struggle over funding for the 'Bnei David' pre-military academy in Eli is not just about rabbis' statements, but a decisive battle for Israel's character. According to him, the academy, founded by followers of Rabbi Tau, Rabbis Yigal Levinstein and Eli Sadan, is intended to train a 'messianic army' that will carry out a quiet religious coup by conquering power centers in the military, judiciary, economy, and education. The article quotes harsh statements by the academy's leaders against seculars, leftists, women, LGBTQ, female soldiers, and Reform Jews, defining them as part of a clear ideology. Nehorai asserts that the regime change is a process of 'Iranization' rather than 'Hungarianization', and that funding the academy is laying the cornerstone for a halachic state on the ruins of liberal Israel. At the end of the article, a disclosure states that the academy and Rabbi Sadan have filed SLAPP lawsuits against him that are ongoing.