Alon Idan
May 18, 2025
Rivka Lafair is a “facilitator of workshops, meet-ups and group sessions on yoga themes, teacher of feminine yoga and personal development.” She lives in the settlement of Shiloh in the southern West Bank and terms herself a “proud Jew” who “thinks outside the box.” Lovely. Also, she also wants to annihilate and expel two million human beings in the Gaza Strip.
Lafair belongs to a stream within Israeli Judaism that can be described as “YogiNazis”: people whose spiritualism underpins their Nazism. They are a relatively new sub-stratum – albeit with deep roots in the local culture – that has gained popularity since October 7, largely because of its ability to weld together concepts that, on the surface, seem like polar opposites: spirituality and annihilation, empowerment and expulsion, yoga and starvation, retreats and carpet bombing.
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