I'd say Oren is a little bit to the left of "centrist." Still, his Kulanu party won 10 seats in the last election (including Oren's seat), the very election that returned Benjamin Netayahu to power.
Oren is a New Jersey-born Reformed Jew, thus is a natural-born American citizen, who happens to be of Reformed Jewish persuasion. Bibi (and most of the Likud party) are Orthodox. There are "liberal" parties in Israel that look a lot like our "liberals" in the U.S.A. But there are also parties even further to the "right." As Prime Minister, Netanyahu has to unite them all in order to have a functioning government. The point is, not only the current majority party of Israel, but it seems without exception, all the minority parties that won representation in the Knesset in the last election, shucked their partisan differences on Israeli national security issues, and have aligned with Bibi.
They know an "existential threat" to Israel when they see it. And as "unlovable" as Bibi is regarded in certain domestic quarters, it seems that all of political Israel is uniting under his foreign policy leadership.
That should tell us something....
Thank you so very much for writing, Genoa!
P.S.: I really need a copy editor, to rid me of redundancies....
Bibi is not Orthodox, but traditional and not all that observant. The Likud is not a religious party