Rumors are flying as is the norm in Israel once the smell of elections is in the air. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is reaching out to chareidi lawmakers. On Wednesday night the eve of 5 Kislev the prime minister met with MK Yaakov Litzman of Yahadut Hatorah. Following that meeting, for a second time in as many weeks, Litzman visited with the Belzer Rebbe Shlita in the rebbe’s home to inform him and consult with him following his latest meeting with the prime minister.
It is assumed that the prime minister is working to persuade Yahadut Hatorah to enter the coalition, seeking to add a measure of stability as the coalition appears to be nearing its end. Clearly the prime minister would like to save this coalition and avoid national elections. Even if the chareidim are unwilling to save this coalition the prime minister is seeking to mend bridges. If there are elections he wants to have the chareidim on his side as potential coalition partners or at the very least, recommend the presidential mandate to form the next coalition should go to Mr. Netanyahu and not another, possibly Labor leader MK Yitzchak Herzog, whose socialist economic hashkafa is far friendlier to the chareidim that the prime minister’s capitalist outlook. Following elections faction leaders meet with the president and are expected to recommend their candidate for prime minister.
Earlier in the week, ahead of the meeting with the prime minster, MK Litzman met with the Moditz and Sanzer Rebbes.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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“…whose socialist economic hashkafa is far friendlier to the chareidim that the prime minister’s capitalist outlook”
Does that sentence make anyone else nervous or is it just me?
#1
Ignore it
Akuperma has been pied pipering that theme for months and months
Joining Labor is out of the realm of possibility
simply because what they stand for is less jewish than the Druze
“…whose socialist economic hashkafa is far friendlier to the chareidim that the prime minister’s capitalist outlook”
Do you mean the Left? Those who hates all things holy and wishes only the worst for Jews and Judaism? The partners of the UN, EU, Mr. Obama, and the Arabs? The Socialists who destroyed Russian Jewry, forcibly shmad the Sefardim in Israel? The Left, who is Evil incarnate?
They are our friends?
We do need enemies.
YWN is going off the deep end.