Eli Yishai.<\/p>\r\n
A pair of words that have become so sensitive and charged in recent weeks. A lot of evil, and also righteous goodness, comes out of people at the explicit name of the man who, after 30 years, resigned from the Shas movement and founded a new party.<\/p>\r\n
About eight days ago, I published in Haredim 10 that I am convinced that Mr. Yishai will disappear, the polls will level out, and the 'Ha'am Itinu' party will find itself evaporating in the cynical clouds of history, with only tens of thousands of sad votes at its side. Less than three days had passed and the editorial board had already received a complaint that the words were written from an unfair position: my family's close proximity to Shas CEO Haim Biton. Two more days had passed, and a relative of Mr. Yishai's, a longtime friend, called to announce that 'the ties between us have been severed' in light of my attack on the chairman of 'Ha'am Itinu'.<\/p>\r\n
Well, besides the fact that I heard Mr. Biton's name [the CEO of Shas, it turns out] for the first time this week, I don't know Aryeh Deri, and I also managed to overcome the loss of contact with my friend, although not without difficulty, it is important for me to present Mr. Yishai with a question that I was unable to answer on my own:<\/p>\r\n
What is it with you and the knitters, for God's sake?<\/p>\r\n
Since when was the late Maran Rabbi connected to the worldview of the national religious rabbis? How does the Hebron Agreement, for example, which the rabbi signed with both hands, align with the approach of your new rabbis?<\/p>\r\n
In 1979, the late Rabbi stunned the Torah world as well as the political world when he spoke at the Rabbi Kook Institute and declared that territories must be returned to the Arabs in exchange for a lasting peace. The Rabbi did not repeat this ruling in his famous letter in 2003. Honestly, how do you manage, Mr. Yishai, to create a consistency between Ariel, Shtavun, Rabbi Lior and Rabbi Levanon, with this decisive ruling?<\/p>\r\n
\""Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in his essence and in his teachings, is a political dove, a figure whose political positions are unusual in the landscape of the known positions of the other rabbis and important halachic authorities in the country," stated the rabbi's biographers, Nitzan Chen and Anshil Pepper. For further reference, for those who insist, see 'The Teachings of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in an Era of Transformations' by Dr. Picard, pp. 157-158.<\/p>\r\n
Are there black boxes here too, from which a demon with a small knitted kippah will burst out, and will tell you that this is all a conspiracy by Dr. Yitzhak Rafael of the Rabbi Kook Institute?<\/p>\r\n
Do you want, Mr. Yishai, to establish a new right-wing Haredi party? In my opinion, your chances are zero, but this is your democratic right.<\/p>\r\n
Just leave the late Rabbi in peace.<\/p>\r\n
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