Speaking on Bloomberg TV, Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett said that the Israeli public has shifted dramatically rightward in the aftermath of the Gaza Disengagement and the subsequent terrorism from Gaza.

“We gave up Gaza, handed it over to the Palestinians, pulled back to the '67 lines, and they shot tens of thousands of missiles at us from the very land we gave them,” he elucidated. “So the Israeli public says, 'We're not into giving up land anymore.' And because of that we've seen this dramatic movement rightward.”

Asked who his political heroes were, Bennett replied: “In leadership, I have two heroes: King David, 3,000 years ago, who founded the first Jewish commonwealth in Israel, the kingdom, and David Ben Gurion, who had the courage to make very, very tough decisions, sometimes against the will of the world, but he did the right thing.

Speaking at the Saban Forum Sunday, Bennett estimated that the events of the last summer “moved anywhere from 10% of Israelis from the left to center, and from center to the right.”

"It wasn't a two day thing, but a fifty day thing. People felt to some degree helpless...these missiles and rockets were fired from the very place we did things right."