Moshe Feiglin

Who is Moshe Feiglin?

Moshe Zalman Feiglin is an Israeli politician, Knesset Member, and head of the Manhigut Yehudit faction of Israel's governing Likud party. Feiglin won a seat in the Israeli Knesset for the first time in elections held January 22, 2013. Feiglin advocates predicating Israeli policy on three principles: Liberty, Jewish Identity and restoring Meaning into Israeli life. In this context, he opposes coercion of any sort, religious or anti-religious. In addition, Feiglin advocates lottery-based allocation of land to Israel's citizens to alleviate the housing shortage, employing the voucher method to afford parents choice in education for their children, http://www.jewishisrael.org/the-feiglin-platform/free-market capitalism tempered by charity and kindness, transition to a professional, volunteer army, http://www.jewishisrael.org/the-feiglin-platform/ full Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount and in Jerusalem, revoking the Oslo Accords, affording the Arabs of Judea and Samaria permanent residency status and encouraging non-Jews to emigrate. He opposes a two-state solution and advocates that Israel annex the West Bank and Gaza. Feiglin opposes equal citizenship for Israel's Arab minority. On foreign policy, Feiglin is a firm believer in self-reliance, advocating that Israel take care of its security problems alone and not accept foreign aid from the US. Feiglin has twice received 23% of the Likud membership's vote in contests for the party leadership, most recently in the Likud leadership election, 2012.