extinction. Eli Yishai never stops smiling. He is happy. He has Torah backing, he managed to resign from Shas and stay alive, and the polls predict that he will get the same number of voters as Shas.
The reports revealed by the Haredim10 spoke of 'great pressure' in the parent party, the holding of emergency meetings, and even attempts to probe into Yishai's camp.
But someone has to whisper in the ears of the head of the 'People with Us' party, Eli Yishai, that he already belongs to history. In fact, he became irrelevant, with the end of his speech.
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The opening of his party did not shake the foundations of Israeli society, and even the important move by Deri and Rebbetzin Bar Shalom the day before seemed to create more media noise.
The Haredi street, Yishai needs to understand, belongs to what is known in sociology as a 'collectivist society.' The members of the group place the general interest before the individual, and the general interest in the current situation is support for the Shas party, which was founded by the Rabbi Yosef, and at its head, as everyone saw, he placed Aryeh Deri, even if the man himself and his behavior are not liked by many.
Litzman and Porosh don't win the "People's Choice" award every year either, and in any case, their party wins 95 percent of the ultra-Orthodox vote. The unwritten Haredi law - "obedience to the Torah" that Gaon Yishai carried for 13 years - has not evaporated, and the uninformed Haredi individual honestly has difficulty understanding why the man doesn't accept the Rabbi's last instructions.
Does he have 'black boxes' on Deri? Who doesn't? The people of Peles, the people of the Bnei Brak group during the leadership of Rabbi Elyashiv, the Nitzim in Ponivez, and even Aryeh Deri himself during the good days of Eli Yishai as chairman, they all have them. They all told and will tell about 'secrets that would shock society.' At the end of the day, we live in the Haredi space, and its rules are, as stated, unquestioning obedience to the Torah.
I dare to predict that the trend in the polls will quickly level off. Within a few days, it will become clear that Yishai's party will win a mandate or two, and will not cross the 'blocking percentage' threshold.
In the fall of your enemy. In recent days, I have spoken quite a bit with Rabbi Chaim Amsalem, chairman of the Am Shalem movement, who was shamefully expelled from the Shas movement at the instigation of the previous chairman, Eli Yishai.
There is no joy in Amsalem for Id, for the simple reason: he is no longer there.
Someone who promises to change world order, create a new socialization in Haredi society, and represent quite a few Haredim who have not yet found a home, does not belong, mentally, to the Haredi preoccupation with the personal identity of the 'messengers.'.
I was happy to discover that he is focusing on his innovative messages, which may also be foundational from an ultra-Orthodox-social perspective.
And yet it is difficult to ignore the symbolism of the events, without expressing an opinion one way or the other: 4 years after Friday organized the ouster of Rabbi Amsalem, in those exact days, Yishai finds himself outside Shas, with the practical meaning of this apparently being that Rabbi Amsalem will likely serve as a member of the next Knesset and perhaps even as a minister, while the omnipotent former chairman of Shas will not serve as a full-fledged member of Knesset either.
Just today. It's 1:15 PM on one of the streets of the Neot HaPisga neighborhood in Modi'in Illit, and a battered vehicle is passing through the streets, announcing a 'special sale and rare deals' in the cheap semantics that characterizes 'speaker vehicles.'.
At those hours, my father, the cantor of the Great Synagogue in Paris, is staying in Israel at his home in the neighborhood, and like a classic European, he angrily goes downstairs to scold the car that keeps making noise under the windows of his house.
But the driver, as expected, was not alarmed. He smiled smugly and explained to the father that this was 'acceptable here.'.
Anyone who has the desire to sell robes, women's clothing from Italy, sandals for Tisha B'Av, and children's underwear is allowed to go out onto the streets of a city and shout for hours with the help of a loudspeaker, because he invites everyone to his house at 5 Yehuda Hanasi Street, Apartment 1, between 10 am and 12 pm, and also by prior arrangement.
The older Frenchman's threat that he would call the police brought a happy laugh to the seller's lips, who knew it was an idle warning.
The police will not pursue the 'speaker cars' that fill the Haredi streets. Passersby also intervened and told the father that he was 'depriving a Jew of his livelihood.'.
""And besides," a bespectacled woman intervened knowingly, saying in a confident voice, "There is no prohibition on making noise until 11 p.m., that's the law here in Israel, maybe in your country" - she snapped - "it's different.".
This somewhat sad event brought up an interesting social insight for me. Aside from the fact that the Israeli law of 1992 explicitly prohibits the use of loudspeakers in a populated neighborhood ["No person shall operate or permit another to operate a loudspeaker, sound amplifier, public address system, or similar device in a residential area"], I realized that the man was right.
If a 'verbal car' of this type were to pass through the streets of Modi'in, for example, the advertising would be useless. Pointless. Not because the law was trampled on in a city street, and not even because the police would arrive within minutes and eliminate the nuisance.
The reason is more prosaic: none of the residents would shop at a store whose merchandise they learned about from a hoarse, not-so-high-quality speaker that disturbed their peace.
So why does it work in Modiin Elite?
that The people respond to the announcer's shrill call, crowding his "one-time" sale in droves in the filthy hall that was rented for hundreds of shekels for that evening, and in their response, they provide positive reinforcement for the irrational behavior of the next driver who tells them about the illegal animal shelter he set up in his home's public parking lot.
