# Jewish heads of state/government

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> [@Alessan](#):
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> > [@DPRK](#):
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> > Ben-Gurion was an atheist, wasn’t he? Though to this day there are openly religious parties in Israel, so the hard-core communists/atheists were not successful in excluding them.
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> Israeli Jews don’t have to practice Judaism. It comes to us naturally.

Because of this thread I tried to look up if Netanyahu is religious. Wikipedia says he was born to secular Jewish parents but other than seeing one of his ex-wives converted to marry him (which could have been a political move) I’m not seeing much on his beliefs.

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