Eliraz Sade, a television host and radio broadcaster, talks in an interview he gave to Racheli Melek Buda on the 'Motsash' supplement of 'Makor Rishon' about his conversion, talks about Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Likud's attacks against Naftali Bennett.
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""This has been a process that has been going on for eight years now," he said of his conversion. "I met all kinds of guys here near my house who were converting, and they kept telling me, 'Come to class,' and I turned it down. I didn't understand the language yet, and I didn't come from a religious home. In the end, I got to one class. I resisted, I made things difficult, it wasn't fun to teach me a class, but they still kept calling me.
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'"And from lesson to lesson, little tokens fell to me. And at some point I realized that I believe in Hashem and I also wanted to do something. So I learned to pray, I didn't know how to pray at all. And here is Hasidism, and here is Halacha, I found a community and a synagogue and suddenly some kind of path opened up and I started keeping Shabbat.".
And how does his partner, celebrity and TV host Ilanit Levy, take this? he asked.
""Amazing. She doesn't keep Shabbat, but it's like she keeps it with me, because in the end there's a plate and a micha. God forbid I impose anything at home, I'm not that rabbi either, but we make it cozy at home. And Ilanit accepts it with love, she often reminds me that there's a lesson. Before giving birth, I also really made sure to catch up on minyanim and it was an amazing time. I got into this wheel and discovered that it's really easier to live in this world when you have faith.".
'"The right as a camp needs Netanyahu's experience, wisdom and understanding, but the front slot is a problem because they locked him in. They will say that this is surrender and what will happen with the second Israel and Avishai Ben-Haim's theory, which is completely correct, but let's be smart, why go head-to-head? Let's change a little, not in our DNA but in our path. What would happen if Yariv Levin was in charge right now?"'
Regarding the Likud's attacks against Bennett, Sade said: "I don't understand why Bennett needs to be attacked, he's not worth seats. What good does that do? They're attacking the person who paid the heaviest personal price, he has nowhere to go, he has nothing to lose, I doubt if he'll stay in the country after he finishes his job. Netanyahu forgot that he needs to convince those who voted against him - don't convince those who voted for you, don't convince those who are convinced on Channel 14, you can make all the mistakes in the world and they'll forgive you. Let's see you buy the hearts that ran away.".
