Comments on: A Look at the Chareidi Parties as Electioneering Gets Underway

By: lazerc

lazerc — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 04:42:22 +0000

Netzah is only threatening to become another party. In this way Degel will give them a higher listing on their list. They will not succeed to get one seat if they run alone and degel/agudah will just lose one seat if they do.

It is a dirty ploy to get their buddies listed higher on the list, but, hey, isn’t that what politics is all about?

By: Milhouse

Milhouse — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 02:08:53 +0000

Zionflag, on the contrary, Moledet was alive as recently as the last election, running on the Ichud Leumi list.

By: zionflag

zionflag — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:50:27 +0000

Moledet has been gone for at least 4-5 elections.

By: Milhouse

Milhouse — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:22:05 +0000

Zionflag, officially Chabad is nonpartisan, and does not get involved in elections. The previous Lubavitcher Rebbe explicitly said that Lubavitch is nonpartisan (bezparteine in Russian). There was only one exception to this rule: in 1988 the Rebbe officially endorsed Gimmel and Chabad in Israel went all out to campaign for Gimmel, bringing it 2-3 additional seats. The reason was hakoras hatov: That was the year Degel split from the Agudah because the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah stood up for the Rebbe's kovod. But the Rebbe made it clear that this was a one-time departure from the chassidus's long-standing policy and would not be repeated. However Lubavitchers as individual citizens vote, and obviously would ask the Rebbe how to vote, and he would usually answer that they should vote for "the most charedi party". How to interpret this was left to the chassidim, and usually they would end up supporting Poalei Agudas Yisroel, back when it existed. In more recent times, because the Rebbe made shleimus ho'oretz such an overriding concern, Lubavitchers have tended to vote for such parties as Moledet, etc.

By: zionflag

zionflag — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:34:23 +0000

Who does Chabad vote with?