The exile
A voice for the exile
The Vilna Gaon taught an order of redemption in which the ten tribes are gathered before Judah — the lost before the found, the scattered before the settled. We take that seriously as strategy, not only as theology.
Who we are actually talking about
There are communities across the world holding an Israelite identity that nobody in Jerusalem has ever asked after. They have no voice in the Jewish future, no seat in any Israeli conversation, and in many cases no reliable water or electricity while we argue about their ancestry. Recognition that arrives as a certificate and nothing else is an insult.
iTribe
The vehicle exists and is running. iTribe is a digitally distributed State of Israel — a civic layer that lets a person anywhere be counted, be heard, and vote in the deliberations of a people they already belong to. It was built before this party and it does not depend on this party.
Digital citizenship — a proposal, not an offer
We propose that the distributed State of Israel issue a digital citizenship that asks you neither to convert nor to prove a bloodline — the same principle as every healing plank here. Read the next sentence carefully: this is a proposal on a party platform and nobody is issuing anything today. It would require us to win seats, and then it would have to be voted through by people and their representatives. No candidate can grant it.
Before anyone offers you digital citizenship
Digital citizenship is not legal citizenship. It is not issued by the State of Israel. It confers no right of return, no aliyah, no immigration status, no visa, no passport, no residency and no legal right of any kind. It will not let you enter, remain in, or work in Israel, or claim anything from the Israeli government. It is civic membership in a distributed community: a voice, a vote, a place in the count. We say this plainly because communities who have waited generations for recognition are exactly who a fraudster targets. If anyone asks you to pay for Israeli citizenship or implies this grants legal status, they are defrauding you, and it is not us.
Power and water first
The same build-out this platform commits to inside Israel — field and rooftop solar, water systems, greenhouses, aquaponics — we commit to for these communities, beginning with the ones already connected to us. The theology can be argued for another three hundred years. A pump cannot wait that long.