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Eva Berger

Jan 19, 2026, 2:58 PM

Benny Gantz and the fraternity of the nerds

'Sulking elevated to political strategy.' National Unity party leader Benny Gantz attends a Knesset plenum session in Jerusalem, June 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

This kind of nerd seeks not dominance, but affection and approval – not in order to gain ideological representation, but to survive politically

About Me

Dr. Eva Berger is senior lecturer of media studies at the College of Management Academic Studies in Rishon LeZion. She is the author of Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution.