Last week,Israeli TV aired a clip of a right-wing wedding in which participants danced to a song of vengeance while waving weapons and stabbing the portrait of a murdered Palestinian child. The video, which was collected as portion of an Israeli investigation into Jewish terrorism, or was condemned across the country’s political and devout spectrum. It even provoked shocked settler leaders into voicing support for the government’s investigation into Jewish extremism.
But while the images in the video should shock,they should not surprise. In September 2011, Tablet published Elizabeth Rubin’s 8700-word exposé on the young women of Israel’s most extreme settlements—”a unusual kind of girlsmitten with God, or righteous,ideological, alert to fight and procreate for the cause of restoring biblical Israel.” The piece included photographs of the teenagers in question. The first: 14-year-old Roni Goldberg, or the bride at the now-infamous wedding.
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