ABSTRACT
The political and security polarization in Israeli politics has existed for many years over the hawkish and dovish sequence that includes mainly the question of whether to support political concessions in order to achieve a peace settlement in the Middle East, and how much military force should be exercised in order to realize political and security achievements. In the current political discourse, the parties that represent the national-religious public stand as a factor that is identified mainly with the hawkish right side of the political map. However, this was not always the case, as the Hapoel Hamizrahi party, substituted with the NRP, was the moderate dovish marker in Israeli governments. Researchers are divided over the question of what had led to the polarization of the religious Zionist party in the political and security aspect. Some point to the Six Day War, while others attribute it to the death of the moderate member, Haim Moshe Shapira. This article seeks to substantiate the claim that the most dramatic change in the NRP toward the right end of the political sequence began only during the Oslo Accords in the 1990s.
