OP-ED: There is still hope

Understanding the politics of Israel
The Knesset HaGdola was a gathering of one hundred and twenty scribes, sages and prophets, who sat in “Great Assembly” in the period between the end of the age of the prophets, those fiery beings who walked the earth as ordained by Yahweh to communicate the message of warning, dire consequence, anger, or hope, as befit the time and condition, and up to the time of the development of Rabbinic Judaism, that explosion of Jewish intellect predicated on the belief that Moses was the original rabbi to whom Jehovah imparted both the Written Torah as well as the Oral Torah. 

The Knesset of old was a religious, completely unelected body, and there is therefore no identity, aside from the number of members, with the legislative body born of a secular polity that rules supreme over the modern State of Israel.