Moshe Feiglin

**Moshe Zalman Feiglin** or **Moshe Feiglin** (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה זַלְמָן פֶייגְּלִין; born 31 July 1962) is a right libertarian-leaning Israeli politician and activist, and the leader of Zionist liberterian party Zehut.

Though he used to work for the Likud party, he headed the Manhigut Yehudit (_Jewish Leadership_) faction, and represented HaLikud between 2013 and 15.

Moshe Feiglin, as his New York-bred compatriot Shmuel Sackett identified with and shared same credentials as Kahane and his Kach party, which was later on banned in 1985 and 1988 and designated as a "terrorist" organization in 1994 in the wake of Cave of the Patriarchs massacre committed by Baruch Goldstein, a fellow activist, who carried on Kahane's mantle.

Later on, they co-founded Zo Artzeinu group to protest the Oslo Accords in 1993.

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.

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 were done to keep him out of Office.

He often complained about the massive amount of scandals that his fellow compatriots at Likud party embroil themselves in and the legal maneuvers that it's leader Benjamin Netanyahu took in the past to move him down the party’s list, accusing the prime minister of trying to assassinate him politically.

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."). In July 2021, Feiglin returned to the Likud. In January 2024, Feiglin left Likud and reestablished Zehut.

## Biography

Moshe Feiglin was born in Haifa, the son of Ya'akov Zvi and Esther Feiglin. His ancestors moved to Palestine, from Imperial Russia during the First Aliyah.

His grandfather was the first child born in Metula, and some of his ancestors were among the founders of several settlements, including Mishmar HaYarden, Hadera, and Kinneret.

His father served in the Jewish Settlement Police in the Palestinian mandate.

Later on, his family moved to Rehovot, where he attended the local Tachkemoni school of the Mizrachi movement, and subsequently graduated from Rabbi Haim Drukman's Yeshivat Or Etzion.

They are also related to Rebbes of The Chabad Dynasty.

During his IDF national service, Feiglin served in the Engineering Corps. He later signed on to one additional year as a career soldier, and attained the rank of captain. He fought in the 1982 Lebanon War.

Feiglin later on settled Karnei Shomron, as his compatriots Shmuel Sackett and Michael Ben-Ari did, got married, and has five children.