Moshe Kahlon, the man with the smile, soared to fame during the previous term of the Netanyahu government, when he was awarded the dual role: Minister of Welfare and Minister of Communications.<\/p>\r\n
They said about him that he didn't invest who-knows-what in the Ministry of Social Affairs, but no one could take away his dizzying success in the Ministry of Communications. His war on the powerful bodies, with a smile and without fear, became a household name. The profit was all ours: a significant cut in all of our cell phone bills.<\/p>\r\n
But it was then, at the height of his fame, that he decided to retire. The murmurers spoke of dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of a sense of favoritism and discrimination on ethnic grounds. In the background echoed Netanyahu's words of praise for the members of the government: "Be like windows," but it seems that behind the scenes things were not as rosy as they sounded.<\/p>\r\n
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A herd of people looking for a home<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Since his resignation from the Likud, amid a media frenzy, Kahlon has been busy with the fight of his life, the fight to return to the political arena. I had the chance to meet him at the "Me'u'rovim" conference in Eilat, organized by the Maariv newspaper. You don't have to be a political commentator to notice the public sympathy that has poured out for him from all sides. The people love him, the little man on the ground is connected to him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n In every election campaign, there is a large herd of people looking for a home. A crowd that ranges from the Shinui Party, retirees, and there is a future for the son Yair. In the next election campaign, he will again expect change, and look for a new fashionable party.<\/p>\r\n Moshe Kahlon's squinting at the social protest voters should greatly frighten Yair Lapid. However, the fact that Yedioth Ahronoth is providing the platform on which Kahlon announces a comeback indicates that the threat is not directed at Lapid, but rather, and primarily, at Netanyahu's Likud.<\/p>\r\n Kahlon has many friends, within the Likud, who feel that the party is no longer their home. "All kinds of gentiles have taken over the Likud because they understood that it is a ruling party and that they need to influence it," as Kahlon says in an interview to be published on Friday.<\/p>\r\n Which he will try to bite.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n The Ministry of Defense takes the goods.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n But there is another party that should feel threatened. <\/span><\/p>\r\n Shas after the passing of Rabbi Yosef zt"l was left without much merchandise in the market. Maran's legacy held up in the local elections, which were held shortly after his passing. It is doubtful whether it will sell itself ahead of the next elections, several years after his painful departure.<\/span><\/p>\r\n The internal conflicts, the fact that Beit Maran is no longer really connected to the movement, the constant threat of MK Eli Yishai (he denies, he denies) about establishing an alternative party - all of these and more have turned Shas into a party that, without a social banner, does not have much with which to reach the movement's classic voter.<\/p>\r\n When Kahlon, a traditionalist, talks about "reducing gaps, rehabilitating neighborhoods, social rehabilitation, educational rehabilitation," he is taking the goods from the Shas. \u00a0<\/span>He, of course, will also be able to explain why Shas is no longer there.<\/p>\r\n This run by Kahlon, although it is still unclear in what framework, also harms Eli Yishai, if he were to join the dream of some courtiers who dreamed of placing him at the head of an alternative party to Shas. Now all they have to do is help the party founded by the late Rabbi Zacharias survive, in the face of the threatening competitor that has arisen from the east. The man with the big smile on his face.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moshe Kahlon's squinting at social protest voters should greatly frighten Lapid and Netanyahu \u2022 But there is another party that should feel threatened","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[824,1334,755,481,234],"class_list":["post-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-824","tag-1334","tag-755","tag-481","tag-234"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n