Tel Aviv, July 13, 2025
Mr Minister,
As the founder of the Council of Elders of Israeli Democracy, I am writing to you this open note following the public evening in Netanya, which you kindly attended.
Our independent group, still in its infancy, has set itself the mission of developing rigorous tools to better understand the fault lines that run through Israeli society. We have constructed a typology of fourteen sociological segments, crossing origins, levels of religiosity, economic backgrounds, and dominant political opinions. We have associated this mapping with a "convictional rigidity" scale (from R0 to R5), allowing us to better understand the flexibility or rigidity of opinions.
According to our initial work, approximately 55% of the Israeli Jewish population is between R0 and R3, that is, still receptive to democratic debate, while approximately 20% (R4) remain in a more rigid position but potentially achievable through an appropriate strategy.
Behind this modeling, a major political question emerges: who, today, can speak to several of these groups at the same time? Who can hear the voices of both rabbis and start-upers, the Sephardic middle classes and retired officers?
It is for this reason that your career path has captured our attention. Religious but high-tech, former unit commander but entrepreneur, right-wing but not dogmatic, you embody a potential for political and social transversality that is rare in Israel. In a word: you are structured but flexible, grounded but attentive, capable of speaking several sociopolitical “languages” at once.
It is for this reason that your career path has captured our attention. Religious but high-tech, former unit commander but entrepreneur, right-wing but not dogmatic, you embody a potential for political and social transversality that is rare in Israel. In a word: you are structured but flexible, grounded but attentive, capable of speaking several sociopolitical “languages” at once.
However, being present in the audience during your speech at the French-speaking college in Netanya, I was able to complete the image we had of you by directly observing your posture, your language and your manner of dialogue. I thus add to the assets of your trajectory the salient traits of your personality: you exude sincerity, you convey your ideas with clarity, in a simple expression, accessible to all, far from political posturing. Although a liberal, you have repeatedly demonstrated your attachment to social justice, your desire to fight corruption, and your lucidity in the face of the overly broad legal privileges of certain religious groups. You also embody a noble, sober and authentic patriotism.
We formulated this intuition of the need for a providential man or woman as a research hypothesis in our manifesto Israel to Come – HaTikva. In the first works, we imagined a political rating agency that we are currently putting in place. In this context, the rigidity scale becomes a strategic tool: it allows not only to better understand opinions, but also to express one's vision in a more adjusted, inclusive and sustainable way.
We submit this work to the attention of personalities of your profile, Mr. Bennett, in the hope that Israel seizes an unprecedented opportunity: to become the first country to initiate an international political rating agency, at once rigorous, universalizable, and undoubtedly more legitimate than certain jurisdictions that claim to be based on international law without being anchored in any people.
My question, therefore, is this:
Do you think that the time has come for a political initiative based not on a locked-in ideology, but on a fine and assumed reading of the sociological realities of the country – and would you be ready to be one of the catalysts?
With all due consideration,
I send you my most respectful greetings.
Edmond Eddy Cohen
Council of Elders of Israeli Democracy
📧 wisdomcouncil.israel@gmail.com
📞 +972 58 489 3290
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