No, not yet. Rick Santorum is not an Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jew. He is not Jewish. He is an American Catholic politician.
A political analyst for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has a biting (a bit tongue-in-cheek) take on Santorum’s mix of religion and politics.
The battle over contraception and other ‘culture wars’ now raging in American presidential politics can make an Israeli feel right at home. By Chemi Shalev
“Hadarat nashim”, the exclusion of women, is the catchphrase that encompasses all of the recent manifestations in Israel of the attempts to distance females from sitting at the front of the bus, singing in military ceremonies, publicly accepting prizes, appearing on public billboards and what not. It’s what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was talking about a few months ago when she reportedly told the Saban Forum in Washington that such things remind her of Iran.
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