The Magic Amulets that Helped to Elect Netanyahu

The Impact of the Spirit World on Politics

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C O N T E N T S

I. The Magic Amulets that Helped to Elect Netanyahu: The Impact of the Spirit World on Politics

II. Letter to the Editor: Giving Credit where Credit is Due

Pictured above: Instructions for crafting a magic amulet, from a book published in Jerusalem a decade ago.

During the 1996 Israeli general election, Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, a prominent Sephardic kabbalist involved with the Talmudic Shas political party, distributed thousands of amulets to Israeli voters, promising spiritual blessings if they voted for Benjamin Netanyahu for prime minister. These amulets are widely believed to have swayed enough voters to have decided the election, given that Netanyahu won by some 29,000 votes.

In later elections, including the 2019 and 2020 campaigns, Shas again distributed amulets. Until recently, the religious political party has consistently been a core Talmudic-Kabbalistic ally of Netanyahu. After multiple elections, in particular the 2022 election, Shas won 11 Knesset (legislative) seats and joined Netanyahu’s government, obtaining important ministerial positions and helping him achieve the parliamentary majority needed for him to govern.

“Mullah Kaduri”: Pictured is a Shas amulet. On the obverse (at left) of this graven image is inscribed the words, “Mullah, the honored holiness, my master, Ḥakham Yitzhak Kaduri.” In the opinion pages of publications such as as the Wall Street Journal the name “mullah” is employed as a term of abuse and denigration. Among the Sephardim it is an honorific.

A few years ago a rare volume of instruction published in Jerusalem for use in creating magic amulets came into my hands, written in a dense middle Hebrew jargon. It consists of “angelic” and demonic names gathered from numerous Kabbalistic and other magical texts and manuscripts, among them the Sefer ha-Razim, a 3rd century A.D. magical compendium, attributed to Noah via the spirit Raziel. It demonstrates how to construct amulets, call upon “angelic” beings, and perform rituals of cursing and healing.

Another essential text is the Sha’ar Ruach ha-Kodesh authored by Chaim Vital. It is a 16th century Lurianic Kabbalistic manuscript describing spirit name combinations for activating angelic and sefirotic powers through the use of written talismans.

In the Kabbalistic book Zohar (Midrash ha-Ne’elam, Zohar II: 270b, 296a), the means for supposedly harnessing the power of the names of spirit entities and their capacity to control humans, is detailed.

Zohar II: 270b explains the impact of the use of combinations of letters and names to affect change: “There are those who know how to combine letters of the Holy Name… and by their utterance the world trembles.”

In Zohar II: 296a, the spirit named “Duma” is linked to punishment through ritual speech—an early precedent for the Pulsa de-Nura curse.

The Zohar explicitly declares that names formed through precise letter combinations are magically potent—they are alleged to manifest the energy of the spirit world and influence life on earth.

Zohar II: 51b is a foundational kabbalistic source for the belief that the intention of the magical operator embedded in letter sequences can remake reality. It is the theological and sorcerous basis for writing name-sigil amulets, especially those claiming 72-name potency.

In particular, this takes the form of the “72 triplets,” collectively known as the Shem ha‑Mephorash, which are foundational in Kabbalistic amulets and talismanic traditions. Each “triplet” is supposed to be a pathway to a distinct spiritual entity.

The names of these entities appear in Sefer ha-Razim, Rashash siddurim, and various other mystical texts, inscribed on amulets for activation with specific kavanot (intentional focus).

These “angelic” names function as spiritual blueprints, not merely categories: activating a name of the spirit is said to align the user with a specific celestial force (sefirot).

In Kabbalist amulet-making, name‑based sorcery is drawn from syncretic lists of spirits, as follows:

אבדון — Abadon
The name of destruction; he governs the abyss.

אחזראל — Achazriel
Angel of hidden lore and watcher of thresholds.

אדירירון — Adiriron
One of great strength; a name used in calling down fire.

אגלדמה — Agladamah
A word of sealing; spoken to close what must not be opened.

אמוניאל — Amoniel
Angel who walks among ruins.

ארארית״ה — Araritha
A cipher name used in the conjunction of opposites.

ערניאל (Arniel)
Governs rule through chaos.

אשמדאי — Asmodai
A prince of severity (gevurah).

אתראל — Atariel
One who bears the crown of flame.

ביתור — Bethor
A name for a spirit that controls astrological influence; governing centripetal and centrifugal forces.

בוריאל (Buriel)
The silence within the veil; oversees concealment and veiling.

חשמל — Chashmal
The shining silence; the voice within the fire.

אאאא — Eieie
A vibration of summons; uttered at the opening of spirit invocation.

עליון — Elion
Most High; name of exaltation and separation from the profane.

אשמות — Eshemoth
Spirits of names—dwells in the breath of the speaker.

גלגליאל — Galgaliel
Lord of the spheres; ruler of celestial wheels.

גמליאל — Gamaliel
Obscure light; governs secret visions.

גבוראל — Geburael
The enforcer of divine measure.

הדרניאל — Hadraniel
His splendor fills the heights; it stands at the gate of revelation.

פסגא — Pasga
A name uttered in ascent; associated with thresholds of visualizations in inner chambers.

רזיאל (Raziel)
Bearer of secret knowledge; keeper of the Book of Mysteries.

סנדלפיון (Sandalphon)
He who dwells at the base of the tree and receives the requests of the righteous.

שם המפור (Shem haMephorash)
The Explicit Name; concealed root of all divine utterance.

(There are dozens more).

Biblical Christians term these spirits demonic. The entities are the source from which is derived the formation of the amulets under study. Netanyahu was elected in part due to the influence of the these amulets. This is a matter of record: “Shas achieved an amazing…performance” in the 1996 election by “distributing amulets” (Los Angeles Times, Jan 25, 2006).

One need not be a Christian to comprehend the threat of disembodied spirits which have never had a human body and never will. Their envious resentment of incarnate human beings is unceasing. The invocation of these entities in rites and ceremonies may be responsible for sinister phenomenon, such as the perennial political power of mass murderer Netanyahu.

The spirits’ malice manifests as a voracious craving for human sacrifice. This calls to mind the blood-smoking pyramids of the Aztecs, and in the white, western “civilized” world the First World War, when the flower of European youth was immolated on the altar of a useless fratricide—a million English boys; two million Germans, 1.4 million French youth and 116,000 Americans were offered up. Occult forces seduced a heavily Christianized Europe and Britain into performing this bloody oblation which exceeded that of the Aztecs, who are estimated to have taken a decade to sacrifice 250,000 (cf. Ross Hassig, Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control (1995).

Before you go looking for a Jewish villain in this narrative, consider the revisionist history, which takes into account the impact of the toxic Promethean occult humanism of the western secret societies, which arose during the Renaissance, underwritten by the Church of Rome’s bankers.