Translated excerpts from the Yisrael Hayom article at https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/635029

By Adi Rubinstein

By car or by bicycle, Moshe Feiglin speeds through Judea and Samaria. The wildflowers at the sides of the road show us that the end of the winter is here. But the spring may also herald the political spring for the ZEHUT party.

With his speeding, some may say that Feiglin does not really perceive reality. The Palestinian villages around us are not part of his experience. He admits that. It seems that he can only speed straight on, not looking at the distress of the Palestinians. But when it is about a Jewish population, his eyes are wide open.

When we meet himat the end destination of his morning ride in the wadi beneath his home in Karnei Shomron. His ride ends with the beautiful and rarely seen flowing Kanah River. Feiglin describes his very tight daily schedule. “I prefer to give up on sleep time,” he says, “to get up early, ground myself some coffee, Psalms, morning prayers, bicycle, writing a Torah scroll in memory of my father, and then breakfast. I wake up to this quiet and I prefer it to sleep.”

“When I was in first grade, I walked alone from my house in Rehovot, where I grew up, to my father’s factory in Ashdod. It took a few hours, but I got there.” With this short anecdote, the entire Feiglin method unfolds: Devotion, resolve and extreme perseverance.  “I don’t zigzag,” he says. “The same woman since eighth grade, the same home at the end of the street in Karnei Shomron for the past 25 years.”

This is the first time that Feiglin is running independently, and as becomes clear throughout the day, he is thoroughly enjoying himself. “I love every minute,” he says.

The war for legalization of cannabis that he champions is also, he claims, the real danger for him. “Look who are the major players today in the cannabis market: Yohanan Danino, who was the Police Chief and Ehud Barak, who was Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Chief of Staff. They used to be against cannabis and put users in jail, and suddenly, when they discovered the millions to be made in the field, they are blocking competition and public access to the medicine. I do not smoke and am not interested in getting high. But I know that people are dying because they are not getting the cannabis that they need. Barak and Danino see the real danger to their money and if there is anybody I am apprehensive about, it is them.”

I ask Feiglin about ZEHUT’s standing in the polls. “All the book stores keep calling me to tell me that they are out of ZEHUT’s platform book,” he says. That is proof that the polls do not know how to survey ZEHUT. In Yisrael Hayom we received five mandates, but in other, biased polls, we got less. We did an in-depth analysis and we know the percentages of rightists and leftists who support us. We are bringing the People to us.”

As we enter the Channel 9 studios for an interview, Feiglin is surrounded by love. “We took a poll here and you win,” the guard at the front door tells him. The interviewer however, asks him hard questions. “You don’t understand that the Left will bring Oslo and terror back if they are elected?”

“The Left cannot return to rule, even though, as opposed to our camp, it has a great hope that it will and it believes in change,” Feiglin answers.