Biblical/Prophetic Themes Play A Big Role In Israeli Politics Today

This is true among both Orthodox and Liberal Jews.   

Israel, as a nation, ceased to exist following the 1st-century Great Revolt against Rome.  The Roman destruction of Judea and persecution of Jews, was the primary element which drove the Jews to disperse from Israel throughout the known world. Some Jews were sold away as slaves or removed, by Rome, to other parts of the Roman Empire and Israel, as a nation, ceased to be. About 1900 years later, Hitler found Jews all over Europe, and sought to finish what the Roman Empire was too civilized to do  to the Jews, eradicate them from among the Arian nations. He managed to exterminate 6,000,000 of them, enough to horrify the world and gain sympathy for them, especially among the victorious Allies, who defeated Hitlers Axis in WWII.  It was the unspeakable magnitude of that holocaust which preconditioned the world to join America in reestablishing the homeland of Israel in April of 1948, just after that war ended, and Jews were scattered all over the world. They had been a people without a nation for about 1900 years. No other ethnic nationality, dispersed from their natural homeland to other nations, over long periods of time, have failed to integrate and assimilate into the population of the nation of their dispersion to the degree of the disbursed Jews. For centuries, most Jews only married other Jews, and they therefore maintained their identity as Jews though living in among other nationalities.

The Jewish dispersion from Israel by Rome is now history.      Following the 1st-century, Great Revolt by the Jews, the destruction of Judea exerted a decisive influence upon the dispersion of the Jewish people throughout the world, from the 2nd Temple era.

Some Jews were sold as slaves or transported as captives after the fall of Judea. Others joined the existing diaspora. The Jews in the diaspora were generally accepted into the  Roman Empire, but Jewish communities were largely expelled from Judea and sent to various Roman provinces in the Middle East, Europe and North Africa. The Roman Jewry came to develop a character associated with the urban middle class in the modern age. They were, however, generally speaking, a people without a country for 1900 years because they were not generally accepted as equals and very few of them inner married with Gentiles etc. 

This from Office Of The Historian

Creation of Israel in 1948

On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day. 

        

Although the United States supported the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which favored the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had assured the Arabs in 1945 that the United States would not intervene without consulting both the Jews and the Arabs in that region. The British, who held a colonial mandate for Palestine until May 1948, opposed both the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state in Palestine as well as unlimited immigration of Jewish refugees to the region. Great Britain wanted to preserve good relations with the Arabs to protect its vital political and economic interests in Palestine.

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Interestingly, the Old Testament and biblical prophecy are of as much interest to Israelie government officials, and liberal Israel, as they are among the conservative, orthodox, religious Jews. RB

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This from Israel Today

Israel Defense Minister: These are the Days of the Third Temple!

Biblical and prophetic themes play a big role in Israeli politics

Israel Defense Minister Naftali Bennett last Wednesday insisted that these are the days of the Third Temple, and that the modern State of Israel is very much a part of the prophesied global redemption.

Speaking at a yeshiva (Jewish seminary) in the north of Israel ahead of next month’s election, Bennett explained why he was trying to keep another religious right-wing politician out of the Knesset.

According to Bennett, the controversial Itamar Ben Gvir, like many Orthodox Jews, fails to recognize the biblical and prophetic significance and authority of the State of Israel and its institutions.

Bennett went on to explain that despite its long history, Israel has only managed to rule as a unified nation in this land for two very short periods, and that because of internal divisions and the failure to submit to a central authority.

“We have had a state twice where we ruled as a united people. The first time it only lasted 80 years – King David 40, then King Solomon 40. After that, we separated,” said Bennett. “The second time, we were sovereign for only 74 years during the Hasmonean dynasty.” (See: “How Long Will Israel’s Third Kingdom Survive?”)

Likewise, the Second Temple was destroyed because everyone “followed their own rules,” the defense minister said, before exclaiming, “We need to understand the big picture. Today we are in the time of the Third Temple!”

Yes, the State of Israel is a liberal, largely-secular democracy. And yet, faith in the Bible and belief in the prophecies it contains regarding this nation continue to play a major role in Israeli politics.
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My Comment:
All of the above is simply setting the stage for the Tribulation Period, called "Jacob's trouble" in ....         
Jer.30:7 "Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it."

This is one or the reasons Christians will be raptured before the Tribulation. They will have already accepted Christ as their Savior and Messiah and, like Noah, be lifted out and above that destruction. But the Jews will suffer the Tribulation to open their eyes to Jesus Christ as their prophecied Messiah, and "shall be saved out of it".