Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid. Photo: Wikipedia.

Times of Israel – A hard right and religious faction of the nationalist Jewish Home party came out in support of party head Naftali Bennett Sunday, backing the leader’s alliance with the anti-Haredi Yesh Atid party and calling it a move to protect settlements and Torah observance.

The Tekuma faction — headed by ultra-Orthodox rabbis who also belong to the political far right — penned an open letter in which they dismissed the “media hysteria” accusing Bennett of undermining religious Judaism.

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