In Israel’s current right-wing government coalition of six parties, there are also two parties described as “ultra-Orthodox” which represent the Charedim, if they act politically at all. According to the journalist and theater maker Tuvia Tenenbom, born in 1957, Chared would mean the following: fearful, awe, fearful. The Charedim would therefore be the God-fearing ones. They make up an estimated tenth of the seven million Jews in Israel and are divided into numerous, sometimes hostile, groups. Tuvia Tenenbom knows what he is writing about. As a teenager he was himself a Chared, was excluded, went to the USA, founded a Jewish theater in New York, and was successful in Germany as a newspaper columnist and author of successful books.
Tuvia Tenenbom’s book “God Speaks Yiddish” – Culture
