ABSTRACT

There is a strong correlation between the presence of Nietzsche in Israel (Scheib) Eldad’s (1910–1996) life and his adoption of Nietzsche for the Israeli Messianic radical right. Eldad is known, in the Israeli Nietzschean context, first and foremost for his splendid achievement in translating Nietzsche into Hebrew. It is interesting to see how he adopted intellectual and stylistic elements of the Nietzschean Lebensphilosophie suited to his view of the world and his radical ideology, the way in which the voluntaristic currents of philosophy shaped his conceptual and political outlook, and the place they had in his espousal of the voluntaristic-Messianic current in Zionism and Judaism.