The Zionist Organization elections have entered their final phase, with the “Eretz Hakodesh” faction expressing significant concern about a possible defeat. Campaign officials report a substantial increase in voting among Reform and Conservative supporters in recent days, threatening to shift the balance of power.
While the Eretz Hakodesh faction enjoyed strong initial support across diverse constituencies, the situation has changed dramatically in the final stretch. The AID faction, which maintains close ties with the Israeli left and the “Brothers in Arms” movement, has launched an extensive online campaign successfully mobilizing voters for parties within the liberal-reform bloc.
This coordinated effort appears to be backed by several left-leaning organizations and associations worldwide that view Conservative and Reform representation in Zionist Organization institutions as strategically important in their opposition to traditional Jewish Zionism in Israel.
“If the current voting trends continue and Eretz Hakodesh fails to activate additional support bases, our representation risks becoming a minority position against the left-wing bloc,” a faction spokesperson stated.
Campaign officials are now intensifying their outreach efforts in the final days before polls close, urging supporters of the religious bloc to participate and ensure their voices are represented in the organization’s future decision-making.
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If the frum don’t have majority you can blame it on all of the Ashkenazi rabbis saying not to vote. In the Sephardic world we don’t have this debate as all of our Gedolim say one must vote.
If they want all chareidim to vote, they need ALL litwishe & chassidishe Gedolim to SIGN a letter of support.
1. Why is it so hard for these people to get living Gedolim to say they support them? (Because they don’t.)
2. Why does the EHK website have many pictures of Pesach Lerner visiting Gedolim (most no longer alive), but no letters from any of them? (In his former role in Young Israel, he met with Gedolim to deal with other unrelated issues. WADR, that doesn’t automatically put a Hechsher on anything he does later.)
3. Why didn’t the sensational ‘exposes’ of Conservative interference in internal Chareidi affairs get any coverage in any media forum, inside Israel or outside, other than those websites frequented by the people EHK is trying to convince to vote? (Because the people ‘breaking’ the ‘shocking news’ never had any intention of stopping the ‘nefarious Conservative boogeyman’ through the police/courts, the WZO oversight authorities, or by shaming them among their own chevra, the whole thing is a phony stunt to scare naive people into voting for them.)
4. Why aren’t the folks ‘leaking’ the aforementioned ‘shocking news’, together with names and pictures of the ‘boogeymen’, even slightly afraid of getting sued by the well-oiled and well-connected people supposedly being accused? (I have my own thoughts about why, but you can search online for information on the things EHK has done for the last five years and see if you can find anything that would genuinely scare Yizhar Hess and the like…)
5. Why have no Chassidish Rebbes weighed in on this issue, and no attempt seems to have been made by EHK to recruit any support from them, despite some of them being more open to working with the State and its functionaries than most Litvaks? (Going back to the founding of the WZO over 120 years ago and the Mizrachi party, which still exists in the WZO) Why aren’t even Chassidish askonim involved at all, other then Nissim Black and ‘Kletzkin’… (This is actually particularly damning IMHO, because the default ‘daas baalei batim’ answer to question #1 is to claim the Gedolim are ‘afraid to go against BMG/Moetzes/unidentified kanoyim, yaddah yaddah’, something Chassidish Rebbes obviously don’t have to worry about.)
6. Regardless of who did or didn’t approve voting for EHK, which Rabbonim guide them once they get elected? Who exactly do they represent? (This is the most important question, and one not being addressed at all. The Rabbinical advisory board of EHK (if it exists…) is even more of a mystery than the Rabbinic advisory board of YWN (“”). If you know the answer, please let me know.)
7. EHK or any other party to the WZO (there are another three Orthodox parties BTW – Shas, Aish Hatorah,and Mizrachi) has zero power to stop the Reform and Conservative loonies from doing anything. There really aren’t any native Israelis who believe in Reform/Conservative, they are either American expats, or a tiny minority of local atheists. (Yair Lapid sometimes goes to a Reform congregation in Tel Aviv to do something. What exactly, I don’t know.) The handful of local Israeli ‘Reform’ really don’t believe in anything, including Zionism for that matter. They just use the Reform ’cause’ to promote their anti-Torah agenda by demanding that the State recognize ‘alternative streams’ of ‘Judaism’. Their main tools for doing so are the Supreme Court/AG and the media, who couldn’t care less about anyone’s vote, only about ‘saving democracy’… They do get some money from the WZO, but they have no shortage of private donors either.
BTW, the reason American non-Orthodox Jews have so much influence in the WZO is not because they VOTE in their elections, it’s because they GIVE most of the money… What exactly can EHK do about that?
yes
lets make the same mistake as 80 years ago
the jews were told not to go to israel due to zionists etc
so ending up in Aushwitz was better
As we have seen recently that Reb Shmuel asked Reb Chaim Kanievsky regarding voting for Eretz Hakodesh and he said yes despite all the issues.
Whoever is not from the Cheder of BMG or the other Yeshiva that said not to vote, should absolutely VOTE!!!!!
It’s a mitzva to mitigate chillul Hashem, chillul EY, and Chillul of the Torah
This is a strategy that I see again and again only in Israeli election or Israeli politics, where in the very last days or hours of an election, each side says that they’re losing badly and then claim that the group most hated by their audience is surging. In America, it seems to be the opposite, where each side predicts victory and confidence (while still urging everyone to vote). I wonder what it is about the different cultures that causes these opposite strategies.
ITS OSUR TO VOTE FOR EH.
WHO WANTS TO BE PART OF AVODE ZOROH??
R DOV LANDO THE BIGIST GAON IN THE WORLD SAYS ITS WORSE THEN A Z
(Disclaimer: I already voted for Eretz HaKodesh)
Doesn’t all these articles make it seem like they’re behind so they can get all the votes they can? And believe me, if you haven’t voted until now there’s nothing any article will say that will make you vote now
Yes no maybe so. And again yes no maybe so. Is it yes or no?