Moroccan Jews

But it is important to note that Mizrahi voters became central to the rise of the political right without immediately transforming the highest leadership.

Now, Isancourt, who was the son of Moroccan Jewish immigrants, represents a further transformation.

He rose to command the armed forces and now contests the premiership through the language of service, responsibility and institutional authority, rather than an explicitly ethnic platform.

His son's loss in the Gaza war has given his public life an intimate connection to the sacrifices demanded of Israeli society.

And let's just describe what happened with the leaders of the change bloc.

Now, they ran this election on the promise that them being voices that emerged from the right and the center, Naftali Bennett with his right-wing history, Avigdor Lieberman with his right-wing history, Gadi Eisenkot with the fact that he's a Moroccan Jew and he came from the periphery, they ran on this promise that they would be able to turn Netanyahu voters to their camp.

And they failed to do that.

They failed to read the map.

But he is by no means a liberal left alternative to the current prime minister.

Eizenkot is Mizrahi, a Jew from a Middle Eastern background, the son of working-class Moroccan Jewish immigrants.

If he wins, he would be Israel's first Mizrahi prime minister.

His best-known contribution to Israeli policy-making during his time as chief of staff is the Dahiya Doctrine.

A lot of them promote things called hijra, which means basically leaving what they consider a kafir country like europe that is christian country or um non-religious to come to morocco that is much more religious etc and they get shocked and they're shocked by how you know more liberated i would say it is and they become absolutely engaged in anything related to Islamists and so on.

They're very opposed, for example, to Moroccan-Israeli relations, forgetting that there is a huge chunk of the Moroccan Jewish population that lives in Morocco, but also in Israel.

They're completely disconnected, I would say, with what Morocco actually is.

And that, I think, creates huge tensions where Morocco will have to deal at some point with this radicalized diaspora.

Eisenkopf was the architect of the obliteration strategy in Gaza.

His most significant characteristic is that he is of Moroccan descent, Moroccan Jewish descent.

He would be the first Mizrahi or Oriental Jewish prime minister of Israel if he's able to put up together a coalition.

But two of the parties that are in his coalition adamantly refuse any cooperation with the Arab bloc in the Knesset.

Seems like he might be able to keep you safe too.

He's a Moroccan Jewish immigrant.

Hmm, do they not trust the Moroccan Jewish immigrants? Did you know they even had Jews in Morocco? I don't know what they got anywhere.

Anyway, he shows up in jeans and a t-shirt instead of the usual polished suit and tie warrior image.

Didn't dress up like a general in the army with stars on his shoulders?