Naftali Bennett, who was this week awarded the inaugural Jewish Chronicle Am Echad Award for his contribution to Jewish unity, is on the right of Israeli politics.
But in office, he was part of a coalition which stretched across the political spectrum. He repeatedly made alliances with the left, secularists and Arab parties to achieve a stable government.
This won him a brief but successful period of governing in the national interest; but it cost him the support of members of his base who were infuriated by what they saw as a betrayal.
The polarisation and chaos that has followed, however, has vividly demonstrated the necessity for this kind of compromise in Israeli politics. Under its system of proportional representation, tribalism and intransigence leads to a permanent state of political crisis.
